Shakespeare’s First Folio conserved
The University Library is very lucky to have copies of all four Shakespeare folios printed in the seventeenth century (1623, 1632, 1664 & 1685). The […]
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True crime, whimsy and rhyme: newly-catalogued broadsides & slip-songs
This post is by Sofia Frattaroli, Library Assistant at Murray Edwards College Cambridge & current student on the Library & Information Science course at UCL. […]
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Library Collaborates with Experts to Use AI to Explore Mexico’s Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Guest post by Dr Joshua Fitzgerald, former Munby Fellow in Bibliography (Cambridge University Library & St John’s College Cambridge). How is the future of AI […]
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Curious complexions: understanding and treating the skin in medieval England
This guest post is by Amelia Spanton, who recently finished her MA in Medieval Studies at the University of York. There are now just two […]
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A Lost Ballad Found: Rediscovering a Jephthah Ballad in the Norton Collection
A guest post by Dr John Colley, Research Fellow in English at St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2023 I began working on an edition of […]
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Finding ‘niger morocco’ on a map: a conservation study day on West African leather in Cambridge
This post is by Dr Ayesha Fuentes, an objects conservator and researcher specializing in the care and handling of archaeological and anthropological collections, based at […]
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The Bible Society’s First Mexican Gospels and the Polyglot Scot Who Would Learn Nahuatl
This post is by Munby Fellow in Bibliography Dr Joshua Fitzgerald. Joshua is an ethnohistorian researching Nahua (commonly “Aztec”) history, art and cultural heritage, especially […]
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Curious Cures: the making of a medieval folded manuscript
This post is by Beckett Thornber, an MA Conservation Studies student, specialising in books and library materials, at West Dean College. He spent six weeks […]
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Newnham College Christine de Pizan manuscript digitised
This post is by Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis, Learning and Research Engagement Officer at the University Library. She has been researching and writing about the fifteenth-century […]
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“Messing about in boats”: four Cambridge University Cruising Club logbooks, 1888-1902
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Cambridge University Cruising Club was founded on 20 May 1893 ‘to encourage amateur sailing, […]
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