Where have all the bus maps gone? – a guest blog by John Davies
Where have all the bus maps gone? Well, nearly 1,000 bus maps, a collection accumulated by John Davies over many years (with some inherited from […]
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An empire of literature: A new collection of colonial publications shows how British culture travelled the globe
Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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‘A valuable & extensive library’: Tim Munby’s book sales catalogues
The Library holds extensive collections of books on bibliography, including on the history of libraries and collecting. One of the primary sources for understanding the […]
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Augusta de Wit and the Genizah hoard
The discovery of the Cairo Genizah manuscript fragments in the synagogue in Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, has already been well documented. In January 1897, Solomon Schechter, […]
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Francis Jenkinson: a pop-up exhibition
Yesterday the University Library hosted a conference to mark one hundred years since the death (on 21 September 1923) of Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian for […]
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The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium
‘The care of books is a difficult business’, remarked Francis Jenkinson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Library Association in 1905 […]
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The Autograph of al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī (d. 502/1109): A Very Early Source for the Poetry of al-Maʿarrī.
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]
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Ghosts in the library: or, a bibliographical mystery solved
Information presented to library users in online catalogues is usually taken to be true and might rarely be questioned. Elements which might be passed over […]
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Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century Cairo
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts […]
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Henry Bradshaw: an Irish book collector?
This post is by Dr Nora Moroney, Munby Fellow for 2022-23. Nora is working on the book collection of Henry Bradshaw (University Librarian 1867-86) at […]
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