Elsewhere in my site I have made public a number of historically valuable photographs: those of Nikhil Banerjee at his June 1985 Dublin concert, or the Oxford 1969 conference on Computers and Number Theory. 

There are also many photographs in the Autobiography section of my site.

Below you will find some scanned photographs (thanks to my colleague Denis Twomey for showing me how to scan) with brief comments.

Tim Robinson at the Kennys Bookshop launch of my booklet A Prime For The Millennium on Friday 3^rd December 1999. From left to right are Mrs Maureen Kenny, one of the young Kenny girls, Des Kenny, and Tim Robinson.

Sant' Alvise convent. I recently visited Sant' Alvise, having read Mary Laven's Virgins of Venice (Penguin Books; "Venice in the sixteenth century was home to over fifty convents..."). 

My wife and I also visited Burano, where I took these two photos: Burano canal and Baldassare Galuppi. I had hoped to find the house in which Galuppi was born, but nobody in Burano seemed to know...

The Rialto bridge, Venice, from a bouncy boat.

The plaque on Dante's birthplace in Florence. It reads: 

.    .    .    .   IO FVI NATO E CRESCIVTO
SOVRA IL BEL FIUME D'ARNO ALLA GRAN VILLA

- DANTE- INF- XXIII  94-95

From Foresto Niccolai's The Dante Plaques (Florence 1999) I quote:

... 'Io fui nato e cresciuto
     Sovra 'l bel fiume d'Arno alla gran villa.
                                                          Inf. XXIII, 94-95

... 'I was born, and grew up,
     On the lovely river Arno, in the great city,

Galileo's former home in Florence is not (surprisingly) a museum...; rather it is a private house, with a plaque, which reads:

QUI OVE ABITI GALILEO
NON SDEGNO PIEGARSI ALLA POTENZA DEL GENIO
LA MAESTRA  DI FERDINANDO II
DEI MEDICI

The house isn't signposted, and you need to know where to find it. Two photos that I took in Florence's Santa Croce: Galileo tomb, tomb inscription

Some months ago I read Iris Origo's wonderful The Merchant [ = Francesco Datini] of Prato (1957; a  picture of late 15 ^th century Italian life...). Recently, while in Florence, I went to Prato to see Datini's house. Datini's tomb, Datini's portrait, Datini's house. Other Iris Origo books (I bought her Images and Shadows , and her War in Val d'Orcia, An Italian War Diary 1943-44 , while visiting Siena).

Fred Piper retired recently (a substantial paper that I dedicated to Fred is available here). There was a Royal Holloway College (RHC) cake-and-tea party in the college's Picture Gallery on Thurs 22 ^nd Sept 2004 to mark Fred's retirement; I took a number of photos at it, but only one of them has come out semi-decently. 

While visiting RHC for Fred's retirement party, I took these photos of departmental photographs: Fred Piper, H.G. Eggleston, W.H. McCrea.

Fred taught me when I was an undergraduate (1965-68), in my first and final years; H.G. Eggleston in my second and third years (he allowed me give his tutorials in the years 1968-1971), and W.H. McCrea interviewed me in Jan 1965 (he was joined by four others) for an undergraduate place at RHC. He was only there for my first year, and I never had any lectures from him. W.H. McC. attended a talk that I gave in the department - in February 1966 - on my then, just-accepted-for-publication, New Proof of Wilson's Theorem. 

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