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The return of Mary Jones’ Bible to Bala

Posted on 4 April 2016 by Special Collections

The Mary Jones Bible returned to Bala, Wales, on 18 March and was on show to the public until 20 March. The Bible left Bala […]

Bible Society, Events, Special Collections

Lines of Thought exhibition now open!

Posted on 11 March 2016 by Special Collections

The University library’s major free public exhibition to celebrate its 600th anniversary, Lines of Thought: Discoveries that changed the world,is now open in the Milstein Exhibition […]

600th anniversary, Cambridge Digital Library

Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library

Posted on 8 March 2016 by Special Collections

Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]

600th anniversary, Archives, Digital Resources, Events, Exhibitions, Historical Printing, Library history, Manuscripts, Maps, Medicine, Music, Science, Special Collections

Closeup of one end of the UL slide rule.

The first slide rule: a discovery in the Macclesfield Collection

Posted on 19 February 2016 by Special Collections

Guest post by Boris Jardine. Slide rules dominated the practice of mathematics from their invention in reign of King Charles I to their sudden, electronic-calculator […]

Archives, Science

Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s birthday

Posted on 12 February 2016 by Special Collections

The Darwin Correspondence Project is celebrating ‘Darwin Day’ today (12th February) with a new website helping us to find out more about the life and […]

Archives, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digital Resources

ADC Theatre Archive

Posted on 21 January 2016 by Special Collections

A project to catalogue the archive of the ADC Theatre has recently been completed and the catalogue is now available online. The ADC Theatre is […]

Archives, New on Janus

Collecting for the University Library

Posted on 11 December 2015 by Special Collections

This guest post is written by Cliff Webb, a generous donor to the Library in recent years. Since leaving Cambridge I have spent some 40 […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2016

Posted on 24 November 2015 by Special Collections

Entries are open for the 2016 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections. The Prize […]

Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Gordon Duff Prize 2016

Posted on 24 November 2015 by Special Collections

The Gordon Duff Prize is an annual competition open to members of the University of Cambridge for an essay on any one of the following […]

Gordon Duff Prize

A Letter from Sir Mansfield Cumming to ‘My dear Hoare’

Posted on 18 November 2015 by Special Collections

This letter from the first director of what was to become the Secret Intelligence Service (better known as MI6) Sir Mansfield Cumming, to his head […]