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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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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