Lines of Thought exhibition now open!
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 […]
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Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library
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. […]
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The first slide rule: a discovery in the Macclesfield Collection
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 […]
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Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s birthday
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 […]
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ADC Theatre Archive
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 […]
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Collecting for the University Library
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 […]
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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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