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A New Perspective on the Cambridge Songs Manuscript

Posted on 18 October 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Dr Claire Burridge, who completed her PhD at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 2019 and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts

Richard Relhan Revealed: a guest post by Alexandra Saunders, John Pickles and Alison Taylor

Posted on 1 October 2021 by Anne Taylor

Richard Relhan’s topographical drawings, with a date range of 1797-1838, are an expressive record of buildings and the countryside in a period immediately preceding immense […]

Architecture, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Photographs, Special Collections

New voice from women’s internment camps, Singapore, 1943-1945

Posted on 14 September 2021 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is extremely grateful to our colleagues at The Salvation Army Archives, Canada and Bermuda Territory, for helping to enrich our […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, women, World War Two

Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two fifteenth-century manuscripts in Cambridge collections. This […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, French, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection

Posted on 15 April 2021 by Special Collections

Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Collectors and collecting, Conservation, Science, Special Collections

Death, scandal and a disputed election

Posted on 3 November 2020 by James Freeman

To write of a disputed election at this moment in time may be thought to invite controversy, to tempt fate, or at least to be […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: When a Greek Manuscript is … German

Posted on 23 July 2020 by Special Collections

Not all Greek manuscripts are Greek. It may sound strange, but you only need to remember that many Greek manuscripts kept in libraries all over […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Cape Town Anti-Convict Petition, 1849

Posted on 30 June 2020 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is delighted to announce that it has digitized one of the most fascinating items in its collection: a parchment roll […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Digitisation of the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a reflection on digital technologies and collective memory

Posted on 1 June 2020 by Special Collections

My name is Raffaella Losito, and in March 2020 I had the great privilege to join the Digital Content Unit team as a Digitisation Technician […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Greek, Illustration, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

A Journey in Isolation: A Postcard Travelogue

Posted on 27 April 2020 by Ian Pittock

“Today’s journey with the Map Department’s postcard collection…” or words to this effect have been a welcome companion as I’ve Tweeted my progress through several […]

Architecture, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Maps, Photographs, Special Collections, Travel, Uncategorized

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