Sally Kent – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration between the Cambridge School of Art and the Royal Commonwealth Society collection

Posted on 17 February 2023 by Sally Kent

Last term Cambridge University Library welcomed a group of second-year photography students from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), as part of […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Shared digital curation of southern African collections

Posted on 12 January 2023 by Sally Kent

Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Work experience in the archives

Posted on 29 July 2022 by Sally Kent

A guest post by Lucy Graham. For the last three weeks, I have been lucky enough to explore daily life behind the scenes in the […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Special Collections, University courts records

Universal Joy: The Grand Festival at Yarmouth, 19 April 1814

Posted on 22 December 2021 by Sally Kent

A post by Samantha Evans (Darwin Correspondence Project). The library recently acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as a gift from Sir […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

‘Ruby, who worked with Prof Hopkins’: papers of Ruby Leader, Animal Technician in the Department of Biochemistry

Posted on 5 October 2021 by Sally Kent

Biochemistry is particularly strongly represented in the University Library’s modern science archive holdings. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds the personal paper collections of a number […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

Recent acquisition: papers of Frank McClean, astronomer and educational benefactor

Posted on 18 June 2021 by Sally Kent

A small collection of papers relating to the engineer and astronomer Frank McClean (1837-1904) have recently been acquired by Cambridge University Library. The papers comprise two […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Astronomy, Engineering, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

The study of animal behaviour in Cambridge: recently catalogued papers of Sir Patrick Bateson

Posted on 1 June 2021 by Sally Kent

The papers of the Cambridge ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson (1938-2017), a recent addition to Cambridge University Library’s science archive holdings, have now been catalogued. Bateson’s personal and scientific working papers complement existing […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

Introduction to the Ely assize files

Posted on 16 October 2020 by Sally Kent

A new tranche of assize court records has recently been added to the online catalogue, ArchiveSearch, the new Cambridge-wide archive management system. Following the completion of cataloguing of the series […]

Archives, Ely assizes, Manuscripts, Uncategorized

Rank rogues and errant thieves: slander and defamation in the Isle of Ely

Posted on 11 May 2020 by Sally Kent

… ‘base beggarly rogue’, ‘false perjurer’, ‘knave and rascal’, ‘errant thief’, ‘pick-pocket, cheating whore and cut-purse’, ‘forsworn man’, ‘witch’, ‘night-walker’, ‘rank rogue’ … At first glance the insults listed above may have been lifted directly from one of Shakespeare’s […]

Archives, Ely assizes, Manuscripts, Special Collections