Edward Gwynn and his bindings
In 2009 a history of the British Library was published with the title ‘Libraries within the Library’, a phrase which might just as easily be […]
Continue reading »In 2009 a history of the British Library was published with the title ‘Libraries within the Library’, a phrase which might just as easily be […]
Continue reading »Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]
Continue reading »During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges and other institutions across town and University to mark LGBT History Month, an annual […]
Continue reading »Thanks to three private collectors in the twentieth century, Cambridge libraries contain significant holdings of books by and from the library of Edward Gibbon, eighteenth-century […]
Continue reading »The University Library has, since the 1970s, maintained an Historical Printing Room, where practical teaching on the history of printing has long taken place. We […]
Continue reading »In 2016 a large collection of Quaker material was added to the Library’s holdings and a selection is now on display in the Library’s Entrance […]
Continue reading »As a copyright library, and the recipient over the years of many large private collections, the University Library often receives material which it might not […]
Continue reading »In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]
Continue reading »Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]
Continue reading »One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]
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