Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907), the Victorian antiquary, had a colourful life and career as a soldier, explorer, geographer, archaeologist, artist and writer. His travels took […]
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Over 2,200 colour slides documenting the work and travels of the architect Wilfred Court in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon in the 1950s […]
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Post by Elizabeth L. Smith (Digital Curator, Nineteenth-Century Science Collections) This autumn marks the completion of a four year project digitising the Darwin Archive, the […]
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In partnership with the University of Cape Town and the Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) research initiative, Cambridge University Library has recently digitised Sir Godfrey […]
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Post by Chloe Rushovich, Engagement and Communities Officer, RCS Carnegie Project As a part of a shared digital curation project, Creating New Connections, Cambridge University […]
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Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]
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Guest post by Dr Nick Posegay. One of the special collections here at the CUL is the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection. It contains over 190,000 […]
Continue reading »Big celebrations are taking place this year in the town of Bury St Edmunds, marking the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of its Benedictine abbey. […]
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This volume was kindly donated to the Library in 2018 and comprises 80 letters all of which were sent to William Kemp, an amateur geologist, […]
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If you think only staff and students appear in the University Archives, think again. Episodes in the life of Thomas Hobson, recorded in University court and other records, are now online in the digital library thanks to research funding generously […]
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