Where have all the bus maps gone? – a guest blog by John Davies
Where have all the bus maps gone? Well, nearly 1,000 bus maps, a collection accumulated by John Davies over many years (with some inherited from […]
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Conservation in action: an album of medieval manuscript fragments with links to John Bagford
Post by Bryan Deighton, Conservator (Books & Paper) at Cambridge University Library Background During 2025 I was given the opportunity to work on MS Add. […]
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Bookers, sugar and Guyana
Bookers Cash and Carry, a subsidiary of Tesco PLC, is one of the largest wholesale distributors of food and drink in the United Kingdom with […]
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Public Schools and Empire
Between 1925 and 1939 more than 500 schoolboys from some of the most well-known and exclusive fee-paying schools in Britain participated in tours to what […]
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Inside Darwin’s bookshelves: a project to catalogue his personal library
Post by Alex Cuadrado, Darwin Library Cataloguer Charles Darwin changed how we see our place in nature, but how did he build the theories that […]
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The Reverend Richard Sheepshanks and the Euphrates Expedition
Post by Dr Samantha Evans, Assistant Archivist Towards the end of last year, I was given the task of cataloguing two banker’s boxes of early-nineteenth-century papers […]
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Michaelides Coptic papyri added to the Digital Library; a project over time
In 1977, Cambridge University Library purchased the Michaelides collection of papyrus fragments from the heirs of the late antiques-dealer Georges Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973). Born in […]
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Cambridge University Farm: a practical setting for the study of Agriculture
Eddington, on Cambridge’s north west side, is one of its newest suburbs, developed since 2013 to meet University housing needs. It extends over the former […]
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Telling tales: manuscripts, scribes, stories
A guest blog post from Linda van Rheinberg, student at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
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Rehousing unusual objects: a challenging conservation project
Special Collections in the University Library include more than just books, manuscripts, maps and archives. The teams also look after a wide range of textual […]
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