Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Rose Book Collecting Prize 2019

Posted on 16 November 2018 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]

Collectors and collecting, Poetry, Rare Books, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Sassoon's journal entry for Armistice Day

Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day

Posted on 11 November 2018 by John Wells

The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]

Anniversaries, Manuscripts, Poetry

Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: a conference reflection

Posted on 8 November 2018 by Emily Dourish

Venice showed itself at its most beautiful in late September when hosting a gathering of over 100 academics, librarians, members of the book trade and […]

Digital Resources, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books

Steffens’ War

Posted on 5 November 2018 by Frank

24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Manuscripts

Recognising books made in Cambridge: the Cambridge Bookbindings Project

Posted on 29 October 2018 by Special Collections

This post is by Dr David Pearson, until 2017 Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation, who is currently engaged […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Virtual exhibition: Royal Commonwealth Society’s 150th anniversary

Posted on 18 October 2018 by John C.

This year the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library is celebrating two very significant anniversaries: 150 years since the society’s formation in 1868 […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Annual Liberation Literature Lecture: Parisian women and the Nazi occupation

Posted on 5 October 2018 by Special Collections

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. […]

Events, French, women

Mesmerised!

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Liam Sims

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 […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

On a Roll: A New Acquisition

Posted on 28 September 2018 by James Freeman

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. […]

Acquisitions, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Uncategorized