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Archive Management System: project update April 2021

Posted on 29 April 2021 by Special Collections

This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. The project ends at the end of April and the […]

Archives, Uncategorized

Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection

Posted on 15 April 2021 by Special Collections

Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Collectors and collecting, Conservation, Science, Special Collections

Archive Management System: project update, December 2020-January 2021

Posted on 1 February 2021 by Special Collections

This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. The project will end at the end of April 2021 […]

Archives, Special Collections, Uncategorized

An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 2)

Posted on 22 January 2021 by Special Collections

Dr Laure Miolo is a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. As part of her project, she is working on Lewis of Caerleon’s […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 1)

Posted on 11 January 2021 by Special Collections

Dr Laure Miolo is a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. As part of her project, she is working on Lewis of Caerleon’s […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)

Posted on 14 December 2020 by Special Collections

175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Darwin Correspondence Project, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Archive Management System project update: October-November 2020

Posted on 7 December 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. It has been a busy couple of months for the AMS project and […]

A Mycological Book Collection

Posted on 12 November 2020 by Special Collections

Nathan Smith, runner-up in the 2019-20 Rose Book Collecting Prize, writes about his collection of books on fungi. For information on entering the 2020-21 Rose […]

Collectors and collecting, Uncategorized

A Georgian Music Book

Posted on 9 November 2020 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Francis Knights, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, whose research interests include musical history, instruments and performance practice from the 16th to […]

Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Music, Special Collections