Tour de France countdown: 5
In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]
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Tour de France countdown: 6
In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]
Continue reading »Tour de France countdown: 7
In just seven days the Tour de France will be in Cambridge. In honour of this event, the Special Collections blog will, over the next […]
Continue reading »Friends talk: Literature of the Liberation (4 June)
The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey on the ‘Literature of the Liberation’ in conjunction with the exhibition […]
Continue reading »29 May: Talk by Peter Fox on the history of Trinity College Library Dublin
The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by the Emeritus University Librarian, Peter Fox to mark the launch of his new book, […]
Continue reading »Beasts in the University Library
Guest post by Harriet Hale, Graduate Library Trainee at Trinity College. Cambridge. One of the great things about a traineeship in Cambridge is that, with […]
Continue reading »Pricking and Pouncing: Alchemical Discoveries in Special Collections
By Anke Timmermann, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2013-14 Dragon, man and god combined: a winged messenger of alchemy past. My recent encounter with this […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 12 February 2014
Dr Anke Timmermann (Munby Fellow) will give a paper on ‘Pictorial transformations: alchemy and images in Cambridge manuscripts’. The talk will take place on Wednesday, […]
Continue reading »New acquisition: The Gili Collection of Spanish & Catalan books
The University Library has recently acquired a collection of over 70 titles from the library of the late Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), a documentary film-maker, small-press […]
Continue reading »Samuel Sandars the collector
A few weeks ago, Cambridge University Library advertised this year’s competition for the 2014 Rose Book-Collecting Prize [entries due no later than Tuesday 14th January], […]
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