The papers of the Cambridge ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson (1938-2017), a recent addition to Cambridge University Library’s science archive holdings, have now been catalogued. Bateson’s personal and scientific working papers complement existing […]
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As the first section of the Spitting Image collection is about to be added to our new on-line catalogue, I thought it might be of […]
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Documenting what we do, what we see and how we feel, the first donations have arrived for the University Library’s COVID-19 Collection. Launched in April 2020, this initiative seeks to document the disease’s impact on the […]
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Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]
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The Royal Commonwealth Society Library department has just been donated a fascinating political poster, a rare survival from a turbulent time in the history of […]
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Several fascinating personal memoirs have been donated to the Royal Commonwealth Society Library recently and the latest to be catalogued online was written by the […]
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The Royal Commonwealth Society Department recently has been donated a fascinating personal memoir, ‘Tales of India written for my grandchildren’ (RCMS 400). Its author was […]
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The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts have completed a box list of a recent addition to the papers of Peter Scott, the artist, conservationist […]
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The 24th April 2019 saw the culmination of a four-month project to move approximately 49,000 German maps from Cambridge University Library Map Department to the […]
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The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds two boxes of papers relating to the filmmaker, painter and writer Humphrey Jennings (1907-50), now catalogued as […]
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