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Posted on 17 July 2019 by John C.

Several fascinating personal memoirs have been donated to the Royal Commonwealth Society Library recently and the latest to be catalogued online was written by the […]

New on Janus, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Piecing Together the Evidence: Cataloguing a Greek Manuscript

Posted on 12 July 2019 by Special Collections

Alongside conservation and digitisation, the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project encompasses the creation of detailed catalogue descriptions for each manuscript, to accompany the images published […]

Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Archive Management System update

Posted on 8 July 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We have been working on the project plan: there have […]

Uncategorized

The Installation of Prince Albert at Cambridge

Posted on 5 July 2019 by Ian Pittock

The Map Department contains many views, which offer great insight into the living experiences, events and environment of the time and place shown. While recently […]

Anniversaries, Maps, Special Collections

From Cereal Box to Archive Box

Posted on 28 June 2019 by Anne Taylor

In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Maps, New on Janus

Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives

Posted on 24 June 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Maps, Rare Books, Travel

Tales of India written for my grandchildren

Posted on 19 June 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Department recently has been donated a fascinating personal memoir, ‘Tales of India written for my grandchildren’ (RCMS 400). Its author was […]

New on Janus, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!

Posted on 6 June 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is thrilled to announce that it has purchased at auction two items which reinforce its existing strengths in the history […]

Acquisitions, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian, women

Papers of Sir Peter Scott

Posted on 3 June 2019 by Frank

The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts have completed a box list of a recent addition to the papers of Peter Scott, the artist, conservationist […]

Archives, Recent acquisitions

Max Aub: a Spanish intellectual in Mexico

Posted on 30 May 2019 by Sonia Morcillo-Garcia

Researchers of the life and work of Max Aub (Paris, 1903 – Mexico City, 1972) will be pleased to hear about a recent donation from […]

Hispanic, Manuscripts, Special Collections