For a description of the Maxwell Collection by Professor Gabriel Paquette click The Eagle 2012 extract.pdf

St John’s has also announced a new Celso Furtado Fellowship which will bring a leading Brazilian historian or humanities scholar to Cambridge each year.

A Colecao Kenneth Maxwell by Lucas Bertolo



Harvard University
The Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies was awarded for the first time in the Spring of 2005, and was established to recognise the best Harvard College senior thesis on a subject related to Brazil. Candidates may be nominated by their department/concentration/instructional committee, or candidates may nominate their own thesis.




Princeton University
Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis Prize The Program in Latin American Studies awarded for the best thesis related to Brazil. May be in any field or discipline. Princeton University Library Special Collections: "Documenting the Portuguese Revolution 1962-1994 The maxwell fund also finances purchases for Brazilian materials for the manuscript collection

Kenneth Maxwell Collection

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The New Historical Era Seen From Space: The Case of the Middle East

Looking at Arabia this weekend the little green men in outer space must have been completely flummoxed by what they spied from the heavens. To the west on the  Mediterranean coast of the Arabian Peninsula in Gaza there was a vicious war resumed with both sides claiming biblical authority. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, cited the book of Samuel: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you says our Holy Bible. MOREBlog/Entries/2023/12/2_The_New_Historical_Era_Seen_From_Space__The_Case_of_the_Middle_East.htmlBlog/Entries/2023/12/2_The_New_Historical_Era_Seen_From_Space__The_Case_of_the_Middle_East.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0

Thesis Prizes

St John’s College, Cambridge University

The Kenneth Maxwell Collection at St. John’s College, Cambridge University

Armistice Day in London: Crisis and Consequences

This year on Saturday 11th of November on the streets of central London a vast 300,000 plus strong pro-Palestine crowd marched from Hyde Park and across Vauxhall Bridge past the Headquarters of MI6 towards the US Embassy demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. Meanwhile a much smaller group of angry and at time violent far-right “English Defense League” counter demonstrators clashed with the police as they attempted to enter Whitehall encouraged by the far-right agitator, Tommy  Robinson, to “protect” the Cenotaph. MOREBlog/Entries/2023/11/13_Armistice_Day_in_London__Crisis_and_Consequences.htmlBlog/Entries/2023/11/13_Armistice_Day_in_London__Crisis_and_Consequences.htmlshapeimage_8_link_0
On the Ron Maxwell Interview: Personal ReflectionsBlog/Entries/2023/10/8_On_the_Ron_Maxwell_Interview__Personal_Reflections.html
Ed Timberlake and Robbin Laird’s interview with Ronald “Ron” F. Maxwell on the monumental 1993 film “Gettysburg,” which he directed and wrote the screenplay, provoked some interesting memories. I was very interested to learn for instance from the Robbin Laird and Ed Timberlake interview that........Blog/Entries/2023/10/8_On_the_Ron_Maxwell_Interview__Personal_Reflections.html