Cambridge Digital Library – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Wilfred Court’s slide collection now digitised

Posted on 11 June 2024 by Sally Kent

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 […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digital Resources, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

A Scientific Life: New additions from the Darwin Archive to Cambridge Digital Library

Posted on 24 November 2023 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Science, Special Collections

Voices from SANAC

Posted on 21 November 2023 by Sally Kent

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission

Posted on 15 June 2023 by Sally Kent

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Shared digital curation of southern African collections

Posted on 12 January 2023 by Sally Kent

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 […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Printing, Paper, and Provenance Projects in the Post-Medieval Genizah Collection

Posted on 19 July 2022 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Fragments, Hebrew, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns

Posted on 5 May 2022 by Suzanne Paul

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. […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Pembroke College, Special Collections

Conservation of a Bound Volume of Letters from the Darwin Archive

Posted on 19 January 2022 by CUL Conservation

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, […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Long, long life and times of Cambridge carrier Thomas Hobson (1544-1631) now online

Posted on 1 December 2021 by Jacky Cox

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Cambridge University Archives, University courts records

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

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