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Author: Anne Taylor

Orchard plan from Laurence 1717

Harvesting Resources – Fruit Farming in the Cam Valley: sources at the UL. Guest post by Jonathan Spain

Posted on 16 December 2021 by Anne Taylor

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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Map Department, Maps, Rare Books, Special Collections
Duxford Red Lion Inn 343

Richard Relhan Revealed: a guest post by Alexandra Saunders, John Pickles and Alison Taylor

Posted on 1 October 2021 by Anne 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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Architecture, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Photographs, Special Collections

Cambridge University Library’s Map Department in Lockdown

Posted on 8 September 2020 by Anne Taylor

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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Map Department, Maps, Special Collections

All Aboard! Railway Maps, Plans, Diagrams and Documents in Cambridge University Library Map Department

Posted on 4 October 2019 by Anne Taylor

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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Architecture, Archives, Engineering, Manuscripts, Maps, Railways

From Cereal Box to Archive Box

Posted on 28 June 2019 by Anne Taylor

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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Acquisitions, Archives, Maps, New on Janus

Out of Disorder came Order!

Posted on 1 May 2019 by Anne Taylor

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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Maps, Recent acquisitions

History of Cartography online

Posted on 5 August 2011 by Anne Taylor

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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Chinese, Japanese, Maps, Near and Middle Eastern, South Asian

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