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Peter Pan in the Tower

Posted on 22 May 2024 by Special Collections

Post by Dr Sarah Pyke, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2023/24, who is using the University Library’s legal deposit holdings (the Tower Collection) to survey illustrated […]

Illustration, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Alan Howard and the Howard Foundation

Posted on 16 April 2024 by Special Collections

Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]

Archives, Special Collections

Thomas Wort, ‘leech’, and his book of remedies

Posted on 12 April 2024 by Special Collections

This post comes as part of our series from the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project, courtesy of Project Conservator Marina Pelissari and Project Cataloguer Clarck Drieshen.

Curious Cures, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, University Library Research Institute

Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries: Project Update

Posted on 7 March 2024 by Special Collections

The Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been running since May 2022 and, as our two-year anniversary appears on the horizon, we thought followers […]

Curious Cures, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, University Library Research Institute

The historical notebooks of Dorothy Chadwick

Posted on 3 January 2024 by Special Collections

Guest post by Elizabeth Grimshaw, former member of the department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, now a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University […]

Special Collections

Culinary inspiration and dietary counsel from the Curious Cures project

Posted on 22 December 2023 by Special Collections

Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime?

Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Library Research Institute

A cracking medical manuscript under the microscope

Posted on 11 December 2023 by Special Collections

This post comes as part of our series from the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. Rachel Sawicki, Project Conservator, and Sarah Gilbert, Project Cataloguer, […]

Curious Cures, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, University Library Research Institute

A Scientific Life: New additions from the Darwin Archive to Cambridge Digital Library

Posted on 24 November 2023 by Special Collections

Post by Elizabeth L. Smith (Digital Curator, Nineteenth-Century Science Collections) This autumn marks the completion of a four year project digitising the Darwin Archive, the […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Science, Special Collections

Francis Jenkinson: a pop-up exhibition

Posted on 7 October 2023 by Special Collections

Yesterday the University Library hosted a conference to mark one hundred years since the death (on 21 September 1923) of Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian for […]

Collectors and collecting, librarians, Library history, Special Collections, women