His Royal Favour: the Books that Built the Library
The University Library’s latest exhibition looks in detail at the formation and arrival in Cambridge of the Royal Library, a collection that has been at […]
Continue reading »The University Library’s latest exhibition looks in detail at the formation and arrival in Cambridge of the Royal Library, a collection that has been at […]
Continue reading »The latest exhibition to occupy the Library’s Entrance Hall cases concerns Rupert Brooke, who died a century ago this year (23 April 1915) and was […]
Continue reading »In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]
Continue reading »There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]
Continue reading »Among the Library’s recent acquisitions is a privately printed ghost story by M. R. James, who died on this day in 1936. It is the […]
Continue reading »On this day in 1737 was born Edward Gibbon: historian, Member of Parliament and author of The history of the decline & fall of the […]
Continue reading »A century ago today – on 23rd April 1915 – died Rupert Brooke, lauded in his lifetime as one of the country’s finest poets. This […]
Continue reading »The Library recently acquired a collection of about fifty wholly engraved books, that is books in which both text and illustration are printed from intaglio […]
Continue reading »On 31 March 1685 was born Johann Sebastian Bach, widely regarded as one of best composers the world has ever known. The Library is fortunate […]
Continue reading »Discoveries are made frequently in libraries, and the University Library is no exception. Staff and readers alike may call up a volume which has been […]
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