Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 16 May 2012
Dr Mark Curran, Munby Fellow, will give a talk on ‘Beyond the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France’ on Wednesday, 16 May, 5:00 pm in the […]
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Cambridge collectors: The last of his kind: George Parker Bidder
The University Library’s exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ runs for another six weeks until 16 June 2012. Dawn Moutrey continues […]
Continue reading »Rehabilitating Henrietta
A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library is leading us to reassess one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s […]
Continue reading »View the Library’s treasures cover to cover
Further content and functionality has been added to the Cambridge Digital Library. We have added more items to the Islamic Manuscripts and Newton collections—including several […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 21 March 2012
Dott. Laura Nuvoloni (Incunabula Project Cataloguer, Cambridge University Library) will give a talk on ‘Witnesses of the past: the Incunabula Collection at Cambridge University Library’ […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library
Cambridge University Library is pleased to present two events for the 2012 Science Festival, to which you are warmly invited. The lectures are free, but […]
Continue reading »Cambridge collectors: Origins of the Whipple
Dawn Moutrey continues our theme of Cambridge collectors with a post on the origin of the Whipple Library in the collection of Robert Stewart Whipple. […]
Continue reading »‘Shelf Lives’: Does size matter?
Dominique Ruhlmann of Trinity Hall Library continues the ‘Shelf Lives’ theme with her feature on a letter of advice from Charles Dickens to his son […]
Continue reading »Radical print culture
On Wednesday 15 February, John Gardner will give a talk in the Library on ‘Radical Print Culture from 1815 to 1822’. ‘“Radical” is a new […]
Continue reading »Cambridge collectors: The Steward Collection
Our theme of Cambridge collectors, accompanying the current exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’, continues with a post by Dawn Moutrey […]
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