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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‘Truth-Untruth’: Brexit through letterpress
This post is by Alan Qualtrough, a letterpress artist, graphic designer and typographer based in Plymouth who met two of the Library’s staff at a […]
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On a Roll: A New Acquisition
Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce the acquisition of a late 13th-century rental roll originally made for the Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity, Ipswich. […]
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