Cabinet will be decommissioned on 22 June 2026, as the underlying technologies on which it depends have reached end of life. The Cabinet website will no longer be available after this date.

Content owners are responsible for ensuring that any required materials are requested and downloaded before 22 June 2026. If you require access to content you have created and have not yet contacted us, please email digital.education@ctl.ox.ac.uk with the subject line “Cabinet” as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Cabinet - Sources

Notes for an article on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
Image for Tylor Papers, Box 9, Item 9.1r–9.3r
Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate engraved by Frederick Hendrick van Hove and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 14, Tab. 2)
16. Terrestrial longitude
Image for 16. Terrestrial longitude
Bead Calculator
Image for Bead Calculator
Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
Image for Panorama of Villa Barbaro, Veneto
Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
Image for Clone of bfa0077
'Palissy Ware' Dish
Image for 'Palissy Ware' Dish
VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
Image for II.2.B The Ninety-Five Theses
Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
Image for Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles, c. 3100–525 BC
Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
Image for Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw
Automata
Image for Automata
Letters from Samuel Bodger
Image for Letters from Samuel Bodger
Ivalo valley
Image for Ivalo valley 1
Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ, BICAPSULARES, & QUADRICAPSULARES pappescentes & non papp.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 11) sponsored by Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
Image for Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
10. The Watermill
Image for 10. The Watermill
Armillary Sphere
Image for Armillary Sphere 1
Saxon urn
Image for Saxon urn
Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
Image for Tabula Rogeriana
Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
Image for Astrolabe table clock
Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
Image for Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
Image for Fig 1: Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
Young Hare, 1502
Image for Young Hare, 1502
T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
Image for T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC. [Obverse]