John Argentine: Cambridge physician and royal doctor
If you have not yet visited the University Library’s exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World, don’t worry: as of today, you have two […]
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Sketches and watercolours of Cyprus now digitised
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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Wilfred Court’s slide collection now digitised
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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A Scientific Life: New additions from the Darwin Archive to Cambridge Digital Library
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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Voices from SANAC
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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Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission
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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Shared digital curation of southern African collections
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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Printing, Paper, and Provenance Projects in the Post-Medieval Genizah Collection
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 […]
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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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Conservation of a Bound Volume of Letters from the Darwin Archive
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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