Universal Joy: The Grand Festival at Yarmouth, 19 April 1814
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 […]
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‘Ruby, who worked with Prof Hopkins’: papers of Ruby Leader, Animal Technician in the Department of Biochemistry
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 […]
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Recent acquisition: papers of Frank McClean, astronomer and educational benefactor
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 […]
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The study of animal behaviour in Cambridge: recently catalogued papers of Sir Patrick Bateson
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 […]
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Introduction to the Ely assize files
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 […]
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Rank rogues and errant thieves: slander and defamation in the Isle of Ely
… ‘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 […]
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An earthen pot full of bones: true crime in Sutton
An extraordinary set of sworn testimonies in the assize files for the Isle of Ely shed light on the curious case of a missing child. […]
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‘… infra Insulam Elien …’: cataloguing the assize court records of the Isle of Ely
A project to catalogue the records of the Isle of Ely assize courts is now in its fourth month. The project is generously funded by […]
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‘This House believes …’: a new catalogue of the Cambridge Union Society archives
In 1866 the Cambridge Union Society condemned the British Raj, some 80 years before Indian independence. In 1929 it approved birth control. In 1933 it […]
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The literary papers of Humphrey Jennings
The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds two boxes of papers relating to the filmmaker, painter and writer Humphrey Jennings (1907-50), now catalogued as […]
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