Thomas Richard Brown (1791-1875): poet, clergyman & collector
In October the Library hosted a conference to mark the centenary of the death of Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian 1889-1923, which included a display of […]
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A Scientific Life: New additions from the Darwin Archive to Cambridge Digital Library
Post by Elizabeth L. Smith (Digital Curator, Nineteenth-Century Science Collections) This autumn marks the completion of a four year project digitising the Darwin Archive, the […]
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Voices from SANAC
In partnership with the University of Cape Town and the Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) research initiative, Cambridge University Library has recently digitised Sir Godfrey […]
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Erpenius’s Royal Manuscript of a Persian Ruler at Cambridge University Library
It is not an exaggeration to say that the oriental manuscripts collected by Thomas Erpenius and kept at Cambridge University Library (henceforth: CUL) since 1632 […]
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New additions to the RCS archive catalogue
16 new collections have been added to the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) archive catalogue over the past year. These range from single photograph albums and […]
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Francis Jenkinson: a pop-up exhibition
Yesterday the University Library hosted a conference to mark one hundred years since the death (on 21 September 1923) of Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian for […]
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Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon
This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]
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The First Islamic Material at Cambridge University Library: Unearthing Bedwell’s Forgotten Manuscript
Dr Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Study at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He was previously Munby Fellow 2022-23 […]
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‘Nothing more important for the linking of the sciences and humanities’: archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Excavated from a basement store last December, archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) are now catalogued as part of the […]
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A Persian Manuscript for Samuel Pepys: Naval Networks and Indology in Restoration England
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]
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