A crowd’s-eye view: the 1897 Cambridge vote for women’s degrees
Sea of straw hats outside the railings. Crackers &c. & then bags of flour, confetti &c. came showering down wind. Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian On […]
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The Pilgrims’ tale: the box that moved the Library
Eighty-seven years ago today, on 22 October 1934, George V arrived in Cambridge to open the new University Library. It was a day of huge […]
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New Munby Fellow for 2021-22
We are delighted to introduce the new Munby Fellow for 2021-22, Dr Heather Wolfe, who will be working on a research project on ‘Decoding early […]
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The abandoned library
On 7 May 1921, a hundred years ago today, the University of Cambridge took a momentous decision. After decades of debate and controversy, it finally […]
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M. R. James and the ghosts of the old University Library
‘Wisdom will not expect the men of my generation or of several later ones to leave without a sore pang of regret the old home […]
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Wonderful Wisbech
It was a lovely spring day for the Friends of Cambridge University Library’s visit to the Wisbech & Fenland Museum on 14 April to explore […]
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Visit to Wisbech & Fenland Museum, 14 April 2018
Join the Friends of Cambridge University Library for a special guided tour of the wonderful Wisbech & Fenland Museum and library on Saturday 14 April. […]
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Gordon Duff Prize 2018
The Gordon Duff Prize is an annual competition for an essay on any one of the following subjects: bibliography, palaeography, typography, book-binding, book-illustration, or the […]
Continue reading »‘Particles of light’: the legacy of Henry Bradshaw
A conference celebrating 150 years since Henry Bradshaw’s appointment as University Librarian at Cambridge 4 December 2017 Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library ‘Books are to […]
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Borrowing back a book
Image: Detail of a 16th-century woodcut showing the Schools quadrangle with Rotherham’s library above (Sel.3.229) The first record of a book being borrowed from Cambridge […]
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