
The school years of Dame Muriel Spark
This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]
Continue reading »This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]
Continue reading »This post is by Julie Blake, a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, currently finishing her thesis on the nature of […]
Continue reading »Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]
Continue reading »The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]
Continue reading »To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]
Continue reading »A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]
Continue reading »On 26 October Clive Wilmer launched his Faber edition of the Selected Poems of Thom Gunn in the University Library with a talk, refreshments and […]
Continue reading »The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]
Continue reading »On Thursday 26 October the University Library is offering a chance to join poet Clive Wilmer at the launch of his Faber edition of the […]
Continue reading »One of the newest arrivals in the University Library’s Rare Books department was a chance find on Ebay. The History of Our B. Lady of […]
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