Getting the best from the timeline

Move through entries in order, using the arrows at the right of each entry. If the full text of an entry is not visible, use the scroll bar (at the right hand side). You can also use the timeline (above the main entry) to move to a different point in time and select a particular entry to examine. Drag it to the left or right. Magnifying glass tools (at left) allow you to zoom in on a passage of time. The back arrow will take you back to the opening slide. (Use the arrow at the left of the main entry to view the immediately preceding one.)

Entries are currently organised into six sub-collections, displayed as lines in the timeline navigation:

  • Milestone: anchor points in H.W. Cassirer's life

  • Relocation: when H.W. Cassirer moved to live in a different place

  • Warburg: information from the Warburg Institute Archive and/or relating to key figures in its networks

  • Law: changes in law affected the course of Cassirer's life; the contents include anti-Jewish laws created by the National Socialist regime in Germany and other countries, as well as legislation affecting foreigners in wartime Britain

  • Media: reports in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals

  • SPSL: other material from the archives of the Society for the Preservation of Science and Learning

  • Biblical: entries referring to Cassirer's biblical scholarship, beginning with his reading of Paul's New Testament letters.