Where have all the bus maps gone? – a guest blog by John Davies
Where have all the bus maps gone? Well, nearly 1,000 bus maps, a collection accumulated by John Davies over many years (with some inherited from […]
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Harvesting Resources – Fruit Farming in the Cam Valley: sources at the UL. Guest post by Jonathan Spain
Researchers and authors will use a variety of resources and consult items across the University Library collections and beyond. Although library and archive staff may […]
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Richard Relhan Revealed: a guest post by Alexandra Saunders, John Pickles and Alison Taylor
Richard Relhan’s topographical drawings, with a date range of 1797-1838, are an expressive record of buildings and the countryside in a period immediately preceding immense […]
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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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All Aboard! Railway Maps, Plans, Diagrams and Documents in Cambridge University Library Map Department
Cambridge University Library Map Department has amassed a huge, and rather miscellaneous, collection of maps, plans, diagrams and documents compiled by various pre-British Railways rail […]
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From Cereal Box to Archive Box
In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]
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Out of Disorder came Order!
The 24th April 2019 saw the culmination of a four-month project to move approximately 49,000 German maps from Cambridge University Library Map Department to the […]
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Since the first volume appeared in 1987 the University of Chicago’s History of Cartography series of monographs has become a standard and authoritative reference work […]
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