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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

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