Inside Darwin’s bookshelves: a project to catalogue his personal library
Post by Alex Cuadrado, Darwin Library Cataloguer Charles Darwin changed how we see our place in nature, but how did he build the theories that […]
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The Reverend Richard Sheepshanks and the Euphrates Expedition
Post by Dr Samantha Evans, Assistant Archivist Towards the end of last year, I was given the task of cataloguing two banker’s boxes of early-nineteenth-century papers […]
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Rehousing unusual objects: a challenging conservation project
Special Collections in the University Library include more than just books, manuscripts, maps and archives. The teams also look after a wide range of textual […]
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Releasing the knowledge we don’t have time to lose: collaboration between the University Museum of Zoology and Cambridge University Library
As part of the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub project (ArCH), Cambridge University Library has been collaborating with the Museum of Zoology (UMZC) to explore […]
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Endometriosis & Menstrual Health in Special Collections
This post is by Ethan Sheard, Senior Library Assistant at the Seeley Library (and Endometriosis Workplace Champion). In December 2025 the University Library hosted (at […]
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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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