Archive Management System project update: April-May 2021
This is the final regular update about the Archive Management System project. The AMS project team benefited hugely by drawing on the expertise of many […]
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Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret
This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two fifteenth-century manuscripts in Cambridge collections. This […]
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Archive Management System: project update April 2021
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 […]
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Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection
Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]
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Archive Management System: project update, December 2020-January 2021
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 […]
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An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 2)
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 […]
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An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 1)
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 […]
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The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)
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 […]
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Archive Management System project update: October-November 2020
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 […]
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A Mycological Book Collection
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 […]
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