Henry Bradshaw – his quaker connection
Post by Emily Perdue In my previous blog entry, I described a group of letters associated with William Allen, and other Quaker reformers, in the […]
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Archive Management System: October update
Commitment to the project: confirmation needed We are working towards making the system available to partner organisations for data entry from January 2020 and will […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: It’s not all about pretty pixels
The Digital Content Unit (DCU) is the Library department responsible for the digitisation of special collections and the creation of other audio-visual content. The earliest […]
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A surprising find among a librarian’s letters
Post by Emily Perdue. While working in the Manuscripts department, I have had the opportunity to document a significant portion of Henry Bradshaw’s letters. Henry […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. Early implementers In line with the overall project plan which […]
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Piecing Together the Evidence: Cataloguing a Greek Manuscript
Alongside conservation and digitisation, the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project encompasses the creation of detailed catalogue descriptions for each manuscript, to accompany the images published […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We have been working on the project plan: there have […]
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Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives
A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We’ve been working on costs and a business model for […]
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Conflicting Chronologies: A New Exhibition at the Whipple Library
A guest post by Meira Gold, PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her research concerns the history of Victorian Egyptology […]
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