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Conservation Challenges posed by the Changi Archive

Posted on 16 November 2015 by Special Collections

by Emma Nichols and Mary French The conservation of the WWII Changi civilian internment camp archives is being undertaken by two conservators, Emma Nichols and Mary […]

Archives, Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Volunteers experience ‘the magic and the meaning’ of the Cambridge University Press Archive

Posted on 26 October 2015 by Special Collections

Since the 1970s, records from Cambridge University Press have been transferred from offices in the Pitt Building on Trumpington Street and the Edinburgh Building and […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Conservation

Skipping on Parker's Piece (MS Add. 7515)

Cambridgeshire customs on camera

Posted on 7 October 2015 by Special Collections

Guest post by Stephen Roberts. The Eastern Counties Folklore Society was established at a meeting held in Cambridge on 18 November 1932, to investigate, collect […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Photographs, Special Collections

A Book of Magic

Posted on 14 September 2015 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Francis Young. Cambridge University Library MS Add. 3544, catalogued as ‘A Book of Magic’, has recently appeared in print for the […]

Manuscripts

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 7 September 2015 by Special Collections

This release includes an important addition to our Royal Commonwealth Society collection. Thomas Dalrymple’s extraordinary photographs of the the former British Cameroons (now Nigeria) in 1937-1942 give […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Make and Create

Posted on 27 July 2015 by Special Collections

It’s not often that librarians get to work under canvas but this year the UL took part in the Cambridge University Museums Make and Create […]

Conservation, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Y30448U: 19 - Whale shot by a man-of-war at Cape Coast

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digitisation, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Cambridge Digital Library – July update

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Exhibition of Chinese treasures

Posted on 9 June 2015 by Special Collections

Treasures from our Chinese collections feature in a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases. The items, dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Exhibitions

Cambridge Digital Library—June update

Posted on 3 June 2015 by Special Collections

The June release of the Cambridge Digital Library sees the launch of our new Chinese collection. Our initial selection shows the temporal range, diversity of […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Royal Commonwealth Society