Addition to the Donald Bowen archive
The former Art Curator of the Commonwealth Institute, Donald Bowen, passed away at the age of 101 on 25 July 2019. During his 25 years […]
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Tea merchants coming ashore
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is very happy to announce that it has purchased at auction another oil painting to add to its rich collection […]
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Henry Compton’s Prayer Book, and John Wright’s Bible
Including as it does the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society as well as the collection of Arthur William Young, the University Library […]
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From Cereal Box to Archive Box
In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]
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New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is thrilled to announce that it has purchased at auction two items which reinforce its existing strengths in the history […]
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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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15th century manorial account roll discovered in clean archives!
Yes, actually ‘discovered’! Unlike some purported discoveries of archives (which are actually fully catalogued and have been available to (and consulted by) users for years), […]
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‘The World Is Not Enough’: Devotional Manuscripts of the Bond Family in Cambridge University Library
Here’s a guest post by Dr Francis Young about a recent acquisition by the UL: On 22 February 2019 Cambridge University Library received the generous […]
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Scrapbooking in Cork
The Library has recently acquired two large folio scrapbooks of 436 and 360 pages, compiled between 1818 and 1822 by one E. Madder of Cork. […]
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The school years of Dame Muriel Spark
This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]
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