The University Library’s new exhibition – Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World – delves into the intriguing, strange and sometimes improbable medical recipes from […]
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Followers of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project who also listen BBC Radio 4 comedy show The Unbelievable Truth may have heard some very […]
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Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Cambridge University Cruising Club was founded on 20 May 1893 ‘to encourage amateur sailing, […]
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This post is by Dr Harry Spillane, Munby Fellow in Bibliography for 2024/25. His research project, entitled ‘Collecting and Correcting: Histories of the English Bible […]
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In 1858 two ornithologists, John Wolley and Alfred Newton, travelled to Iceland in the hope of seeing a flightless seabird, the elusive great auk. Both […]
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January 1855. The British coalition government was in crisis over accusations of mismanagement in the Crimean war. In the literary world, the final installment of […]
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Guest post by David Jones (Lakenheath Heritage Group) This is an account of how an historic poster came into the possession of the Lakenheath Heritage […]
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Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907), the Victorian antiquary, had a colourful life and career as a soldier, explorer, geographer, archaeologist, artist and writer. His travels took […]
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TV viewers enjoying the tumultuous final episodes of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light may be interested in Thomas Cromwell’s impact on Cambridge in […]
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Taken from one of the diaries of Kathleen Scott, our image this month, apposite for the season, shows Kathleen’s son Peter ice skating with a […]
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