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Award for the UL’s Honorary Keeper of Japanese Books

Posted on 1 May 2018 by Special Collections

In March, the Japanese embassy in London held a reception for Professor Emeritus Peter Kornicki, who has received one of Japan’s highest honours: the Order […]

Japanese, librarians, Library history, Special Collections

Smelly Remedy: Womb Fumigation Illustrated in Seventeenth Century Print

Posted on 12 March 2018 by Special Collections

Swelling, shifting and releasing noxious vapours, the Early Modern womb was deemed to be an unruly organ and the cause of numerous ailments. The symptoms […]

Exhibitions, Illustration, Medicine, women

Talk on the Liberation Collection, 22nd February

Posted on 14 February 2018 by Special Collections

On Thursday 22nd February Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey will give a talk to the Cambridge Bibliographical Society on ‘The power of the image in liberated France, […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Events, Illustration, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Puzzling Scribes and Medieval Puzzles: Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Special Collections

Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]

Christian Works, Manuscripts

Tower House, Kensington, London: perspective of the library (RIBA Collections)

Living the Gothic Revival: William Burges and Tower House

Posted on 18 December 2017 by Special Collections

William Burges (1827-81) identified himself throughout his prolific career as an ‘art-architect’1. Richard Popplewell Pullan (1825-88) was also an artist and architect, and like Burges […]

Architecture, Illustration, Photographs, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Arthur Schnitzler digital: new resources. Guest post by Andrew Webber

Posted on 30 October 2017 by Special Collections

The leading Austrian Modernist writer, Arthur Schnitzler, died on 21 October 1931. Marking the anniversary of the author’s death, the digital portal constructed for the […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Digital Resources, German

A chance discovery: Guest post by Jason Scott-Warren

Posted on 18 October 2017 by Special Collections

One of the newest arrivals in the University Library’s Rare Books department was a chance find on Ebay. The History of Our B. Lady of […]

Christian Works, Poetry, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, women

Festival of Ideas 2017 at the University Library

Posted on 16 October 2017 by Special Collections

The Special Collections team are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities […]

Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Papers of a forgotten folklorist: Charles Dack

Posted on 14 September 2017 by Special Collections

There is often more to the books in Cambridge University’s Rare Books Room than meets the eye, with many of them containing unique handwritten accessory […]

Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Rare Books

Summer at the Museums – guest post by Vasiliki Vartholomeou

Posted on 6 September 2017 by Special Collections

We have come to the end of the Summer At The Museums, a series of exciting events for families during the summer holidays. After the […]

Conservation, Events