Recent acquisitions – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Queering the UL

Posted on 5 February 2019 by Liam Sims

February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]

Exhibitions, Japanese, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

A miscellany of new acquisitions

Posted on 5 September 2018 by Liam Sims

Last July this blog featured a note about a collection of Quaker books, bequeathed to the Library in 2016 by David J. Hall (1947-2015), former […]

Collectors and collecting, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Navigating to Boston

Posted on 11 July 2018 by William Hale

The Library’s exhibition “Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower” highlights some of the books in our holdings that you might not necessarily expect to find […]

Astronomy, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Digitisation of Sukkur Bridge photograph album

Posted on 8 June 2018 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library’s recent purchase at auction of a splendid presentation album of photographs (Y30244A), celebrating the opening of the Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian

The J. H. Prynne Papers

Posted on 11 May 2018 by John Wells

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 […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

The Brooke Crutchley collection of letterpress printing

Posted on 14 March 2018 by John Wells

A guest post by Anna Crutchley Brooke Crutchley (1907–2003) was Printer to Cambridge University between 1946 and 1974 and an advocate of good book design […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions

Talk on the Liberation Collection, 22nd February

Posted on 14 February 2018 by Special Collections

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, […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Events, Illustration, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Tower House, Kensington, London: perspective of the library (RIBA Collections)

Living the Gothic Revival: William Burges and Tower House

Posted on 18 December 2017 by Special Collections

William Burges (1827-81) identified himself throughout his prolific career as an ‘art-architect’1. Richard Popplewell Pullan (1825-88) was also an artist and architect, and like Burges […]

Architecture, Illustration, Photographs, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

MS-ADD-09852-00006-MS Add.9852/6/2, front free endpaper

New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’

Posted on 4 December 2017 by John Wells

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 […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions