Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon
This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]
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A Persian Manuscript for Samuel Pepys: Naval Networks and Indology in Restoration England
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]
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Piecing together the law: fragments of medieval legal manuscripts at Cambridge University Library
This guest post is by Héléna Lagreou, who is studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge. The work she describes here was conducted […]
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Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions
This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.
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Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century Cairo
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts […]
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Henry Bradshaw: an Irish book collector?
This post is by Dr Nora Moroney, Munby Fellow for 2022-23. Nora is working on the book collection of Henry Bradshaw (University Librarian 1867-86) at […]
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A glimpse into late Victorian rural education in the Fens
By Kevin Roberts, Archivist (Department of Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently purchased and catalogued the logbooks of […]
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‘For no cause but for the healing and help of them’: medieval gynaecology as a female discipline
Guest post by Sarah Friedman, PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thanks to research grants from the Medieval Academy of America and […]
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Magnus Hirschfeld & sex reform
Post by Alina Wanitzek (Assistant Librarian, Department of Psychology) In October 2022, San Francisco–based queer public historian and book dealer Gerard Koskovich came to Cambridge […]
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The Paget family of East Anglia
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) Last year, the University Library acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as […]
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