Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2016
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 […]
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Gordon Duff Prize 2016
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 […]
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A Letter from Sir Mansfield Cumming to ‘My dear Hoare’
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 […]
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Conservation Challenges posed by the Changi Archive
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 […]
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Volunteers experience ‘the magic and the meaning’ of the Cambridge University Press Archive
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 […]
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Cambridgeshire customs on camera
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 […]
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A Book of Magic
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 […]
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Cambridge Digital Library – latest update
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 […]
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Make and Create
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 […]
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Cambridge Digital Library – latest update
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 […]
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