Papers of a forgotten folklorist: Charles Dack
There is often more to the books in Cambridge University’s Rare Books Room than meets the eye, with many of them containing unique handwritten accessory […]
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Summer at the Museums – guest post by Vasiliki Vartholomeou
We have come to the end of the Summer At The Museums, a series of exciting events for families during the summer holidays. After the […]
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Student, soldier and author: Basil Godfrey Quin MC.
The Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres was fought one hundred years ago between July and November 1917. One of the regiments involved was the […]
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Absence as Evidence: Recovering the Losses in an Eighth-century Gospel Book
Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson
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Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arrangement
Rare early illustrations of the Japanese art of flower arrangement, now known as ikebana 生花, will be on display in the University Library Entrance Hall […]
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Frederick George Dunnett 1896 – 24 April 1917
On 24 April 1917, one hundred years ago today, Private Frederick George Dunnett of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment and a member of University Library staff […]
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Egypt on a tourist’s mind
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 […]
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Recent Acquisition: Tippling Sally
Guest post by Cliff Webb.
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The Peterborough Cathedral Manuscripts and the Peterborough Lapidary
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 […]
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Views of the Beagle Expedition
The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:
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