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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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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A guest blog post from Linda van Rheinberg, student at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
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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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As part of the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub project (ArCH), Cambridge University Library has been collaborating with the Museum of Zoology (UMZC) to explore […]
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This post is by Ethan Sheard, Senior Library Assistant at the Seeley Library (and Endometriosis Workplace Champion). In December 2025 the University Library hosted (at […]
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In late 2024, Cambridge University Library accepted a tranche of papers relating to the career of the schoolteacher, educationalist and scholar Jean Boyd (1934-2022) who […]
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The University Library is very lucky to have copies of all four Shakespeare folios printed in the seventeenth century (1623, 1632, 1664 & 1685). The […]
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This post is by Sofia Frattaroli, Library Assistant at Murray Edwards College Cambridge & current student on the Library & Information Science course at UCL. […]
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Guest post by Dr Joshua Fitzgerald, former Munby Fellow in Bibliography (Cambridge University Library & St John’s College Cambridge). How is the future of AI […]
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