We are delighted to announce that the annual Liberation Literature Lecture, held in partnership with Clare Hall, will be delivered by award-winning author Anne Sebba. […]
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Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]
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Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce the acquisition of a late 13th-century rental roll originally made for the Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity, Ipswich. […]
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The following post has been written by Ester Peric, an intern in the Rare Books Department for the month of August updating MEI records (material […]
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Last July this blog featured a note about a collection of Quaker books, bequeathed to the Library in 2016 by David J. Hall (1947-2015), former […]
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One of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s most atmospheric collections of artwork (RCMS 158) was created by Annie Emma Allen (1853-1942), who documented her journey to […]
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Guest post by Katherine Dixon, a PhD student in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, on her experience of collaborating with the Cambridge Digital Library. […]
Continue reading »To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]
Continue reading »This image is taken from a notebook kept by Horace Darwin to record his ideas for all manner of mechanical devices, including a self-adjusting spanner, […]
Continue reading »The Library’s exhibition “Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower” highlights some of the books in our holdings that you might not necessarily expect to find […]
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