Showing Their Hands
Dawson Turner, the banker, antiquary, and leading light of autograph collectors in the early nineteenth century, claimed that he had ‘never met with the man […]
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Joanne Limburg Papers
For some time the Library has been engaged in building its collections of papers of modern and contemporary poets with local Cambridge connections, whether to […]
Continue reading »A Claudel archive
During the First World War, the poet, playwright and diplomat Paul Claudel (1868-1955) struck up a friendship with Audrey Parr, the wife of a British […]
Continue reading »Hard luck
The ‘hard luck story’ has a long pedigree, and there has always been difficulty knowing how much — if anything — in each tale is […]
Continue reading »‘Passio’ launch, Tuesday 6 December
Tuesday 6 December will see the launch in the the Library of Passio, a new collection of fourteen poems by János Pilinszky, translated from the […]
Continue reading »Babies Make News
On Saturday 26 November Peter Jones, Fellow-Librarian of King’s College, will be giving a talk to the Friends of the Library entitled ‘Babies Make News’. […]
Continue reading »Books and Babies
Most displays in the Library’s main Exhibition Centre draw on Special Collections materials to some degree, but few of them have included quite such a […]
Continue reading »Islamic seals event
On Thursday 19 May, Venetia Porter and Annabel Gallop will give a talk in the Library on ‘Islamic Seals: Treasures from the British Library […]
Continue reading »John Ruskin and the King James Bible
Ruskin, like many English writers, was inspired by the King James Bible: not only its religious teaching but its rhythms, imagery and social subversiveness. On […]
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