
Reading Euclid at Cambridge
Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]
Continue reading »Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]
Continue reading »Join the Friends of Cambridge University Library for a special guided tour of the wonderful Wisbech & Fenland Museum and library on Saturday 14 April. […]
Continue reading »During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges and other institutions across town and University to mark LGBT History Month, an annual […]
Continue reading »On the wall of the Library’s fourth floor of landing hangs a portrait of a man dressed in a very fine silk or satin doublet […]
Continue reading »On Thursday 22nd February Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey will give a talk to the Cambridge Bibliographical Society on ‘The power of the image in liberated France, […]
Continue reading »Entries are open for the 2018 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections. The Prize […]
Continue reading »In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]
Continue reading »On 14 November, the University Library will host a pop-up display of rare material from the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, the definitive collection of French books on […]
Continue reading »There is often more to the books in Cambridge University’s Rare Books Room than meets the eye, with many of them containing unique handwritten accessory […]
Continue reading »Thanks to three private collectors in the twentieth century, Cambridge libraries contain significant holdings of books by and from the library of Edward Gibbon, eighteenth-century […]
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