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Egypt on a tourist’s mind

Posted on 7 March 2017 by Special Collections

A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Recent Acquisition: Tippling Sally

Posted on 24 February 2017 by Special Collections

Guest post by Cliff Webb.

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

The Peterborough Cathedral Manuscripts and the Peterborough Lapidary

Posted on 28 November 2016 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Francis Young In 1970 Peterborough Cathedral placed its ancient manuscripts on permanent loan to Cambridge University Library, owing to the unsuitable […]

Manuscripts, Special Collections

Views of the Beagle Expedition

Posted on 6 October 2016 by Special Collections

The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Events, Special Collections

A Choirbook fit for a King?

Posted on 4 October 2016 by Special Collections

Today saw the beginning of our series of show-and-tell events, ‘Treasures of the University Library’, with talks given by Anna Pensaert, Head of Music Collections. […]

Manuscripts, Music, Special Collections

“The beauty of expression”: M.R. James and the First World War Memorial Scroll

Posted on 4 August 2016 by Special Collections

The War Reserve collection in the University Library, initiated by Librarian Francis Jenkinson, contains a wealth of interesting things for the military researcher, ranging from […]

Anniversaries, Rare Books

Poems and Ballads at 150

Posted on 20 July 2016 by Special Collections

This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (1866) which appalled Victorian readers with its anti-authoritarianism, republicanism […]

Anniversaries, Events, Exhibitions, Poetry

Live tweeting the first day of the Somme from the diary of Siegfried Sassoon

Posted on 7 July 2016 by Special Collections

The diaries of Siegfried Sassoon which are held in Department of Manuscripts and Archives are a unique and fascinating resource for both historians and literary […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts

Surgeons at war: the Fairbank papers

Posted on 5 July 2016 by Special Collections

Sir (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank (1876-1961) and his son Thomas John Fairbank (1912-1998) were orthopaedic surgeons and each saw service with the Royal Army Medical […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Recent acquisitions

A serendipitous Riddell: discovered by chance in the UL’s manuscripts collection

Posted on 27 June 2016 by Special Collections

I have been researching the history and men of the Cambridgeshire Regiment for over twenty years now and the Library has been an invaluable source […]