The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world
It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century—and captivated the British public during an era […]
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‘Pride and prejudice: celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel’
Ten illustrated editions of Pride and prejudice from the Library’s collections will feature in an exhibition at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from 21–23 June 2013. […]
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A collection of miscellaneous handwriting samples, recently catalogued by Dr J.F. Coakley, has yielded a few slips of paper bearing alphabets and other specimens for […]
Continue reading »BBC Radio 3: Life in Fragments: Stories from the Cairo Genizah
The Essay Life in Fragments: Stories from the Cairo Genizah BBC Radio 3, 27–31 May 10:45pm The Cairo Genizah is a treasure trove of manuscripts […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 15 May 2013
Professor Alison Sinclair will give a paper on ‘Today we shall go slumming: telling tales in the University Library´s Spanish sueltos collection’. The talk will […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 1 May 2013
Elizabeth Upper (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library) will give a paper on ‘Beheaded cows, English religious politics and the title vignette of Rede me and […]
Continue reading »In search of the erhu 尋覓二胡: an exhibition by Colin Huehns
The items described here are on display in the Anderson Room cases at Cambridge University Library until 10 May 2013 The erhu epitomises Chinese music; […]
Continue reading »Personal correspondence between Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker released online
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Cambridge Digital Library have collaborated to publish images and transcriptions of 1200 letters exchanged by Darwin with his closest friend, Joseph […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Digital Library: Maimonides fragments and Newton’s dispute with Flamsteed released
A further 8,000 Genizah fragments are being published in the latest release of Cambridge Digital Library, bringing the overall total to 12,000. The Cairo Genizah […]
Continue reading »Sandars Lectures 2013
The Sandars Reader for 2013 is Professor Jim Secord, who will lecture on ‘Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian […]
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