The school years of Dame Muriel Spark
This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]
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“We had a lovely time of it and did good work” – Captain E. D. Ridley and the Battle of Loos
26.9.15 – Dear Mother, The great battle began yesterday and we are now full of wild rumours. On the 25th of September 1915 the Loos-Artois […]
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Despised, Adored and Often Ignored: school poetry anthologies and the trace of classrooms past
This post is by Julie Blake, a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, currently finishing her thesis on the nature of […]
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‘A degree of a different character’: 100 years of the Cambridge PhD
On 16 May 1919, a specially established syndicate presented a series of revised regulations governing the admission and courses of study of research students and […]
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“I have just set a Hungarian rabbi at work…
…upon our Hebrew manuscripts” said Henry Bradshaw in June 1865. Bradshaw was Head of the manuscript collections in the University Library and was keen to […]
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Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean
by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]
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‘Truth-Untruth’: Brexit through letterpress
This post is by Alan Qualtrough, a letterpress artist, graphic designer and typographer based in Plymouth who met two of the Library’s staff at a […]
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A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair!
“You can learn about archives you may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]
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Rose Book Collecting Prize 2019
Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]
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Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day
The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]
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