Charles Hamilton Sorley remembered
A guest post by Jonathan Spain. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently catalogued a small archive relating to the First World War […]
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Tributes to two brothers
Guest post by Jonathan Spain, former member of the Manuscripts Department, now a volunteer cataloguer. The Library’s Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has issued […]
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The original red-eye: Alcock and Brown across the Atlantic
Almost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to […]
Continue reading »Archival revolution: how born-digital archives are changing the way we do research
On Tuesday 28 May, at 2.15 p.m., Lise Jaillant will give a talk in the Milstein Room, University Library, West Road, on “Archival revolution: how […]
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Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day
The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]
Continue reading »Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]
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The J. H. Prynne Papers
A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]
Continue reading »The Brooke Crutchley collection of letterpress printing
A guest post by Anna Crutchley Brooke Crutchley (1907–2003) was Printer to Cambridge University between 1946 and 1974 and an advocate of good book design […]
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Thom Gunn revived and remembered, recorded
On 26 October Clive Wilmer launched his Faber edition of the Selected Poems of Thom Gunn in the University Library with a talk, refreshments and […]
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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’
The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]
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