Cambridge University Library’s Map Department in Lockdown
120 days in Lockdown and counting … Read a Blog Post commissioned by the Cambridge Library Group describing what Cambridge University Library Map Department staff have […]
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‘The finest place in the University’: George Herbert (1593-1633), Public Orator
By Jacqueline Cox (Keeper of University Archives) 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the election of the poet George Herbert as Public Orator, a post he held until 1627. First created by university statute […]
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Archive Management System update
Migration The focus of the project remains migrating records from our legacy systems on to ArchivesSpace. Alongside ongoing work on the University Library’s AtoM data, […]
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VJ Day, Singapore, 1945
15 August 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Japan and the conclusion of the Second World War. It is a time to […]
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Nineteenth-century Canadian pamphlets
During the University Library’s closure, the Royal Commonwealth Society department has continued cataloguing its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets, most recently concentrating upon Canada. So […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: When a Greek Manuscript is … German
Not all Greek manuscripts are Greek. It may sound strange, but you only need to remember that many Greek manuscripts kept in libraries all over […]
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Archive Management System project update
Migration The focus of our project remains migrating records from our legacy systems on to ArchivesSpace. Alongside work on the University Library’s AtoM data, this […]
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Cape Town Anti-Convict Petition, 1849
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is delighted to announce that it has digitized one of the most fascinating items in its collection: a parchment roll […]
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‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions
In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]
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Nineteenth-century dialect writing
In the first in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Georgia Thurston (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) shares her research towards a […]
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