Exhibitions – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions

Posted on 7 July 2023 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.

Curious Cures, Exhibitions, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Classroom photographic journeys: the Alfred Hugh Fisher Collection

Posted on 18 April 2023 by Liam Sims

This guest post is by Dr Sabrina Meneghini, Associate Lecturer in Photographic History & Archival Heritage at Milan’s CFP Bauer. Sabrina recently completed her PhD […]

Exhibitions, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian, Special Collections

Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns

Posted on 5 May 2022 by Suzanne Paul

Big celebrations are taking place this year in the town of Bury St Edmunds, marking the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of its Benedictine abbey. […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Pembroke College, Special Collections

Conservation for a Legendary Exhibition

Posted on 20 April 2022 by CUL Conservation

Cambridge University Library is home to one of the pre-eminent collections of Japanese material outside of Japan, including one of the first Japanese books ever to reach British shores. In […]

Conservation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Sounds of the Samurai

Posted on 15 February 2022 by Special Collections

The Library’s current exhibition, Samurai: History and Legend, is drawn from our world-class collections, home to one of the pre-eminent collections of Japanese material anywhere outside of […]

Exhibitions, Japanese, Special Collections

Conservation of a Bound Volume of Letters from the Darwin Archive

Posted on 19 January 2022 by CUL Conservation

This volume was kindly donated to the Library in 2018 and comprises 80 letters all of which were sent to William Kemp, an amateur geologist, […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

War and words: Colin Macaulay and his manuscript connections

Posted on 17 May 2021 by Catherine Ansorge

One of Cambridge University Library’s most treasured manuscripts, the Codex Zacynthius, is displayed in the Library’s exhibition ‘Ghost Words: reading the past’. The focus here […]

Bible Society, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Greek, Manuscripts, Special Collections

‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special collections in lockdown

Posted on 25 May 2020 by Special Collections

I dared not dream that this dream had come true:That I was bending over that yellow pageLit with his words – our boy, our poet, […]

Christian Works, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition

Posted on 13 May 2020 by Special Collections

In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Art in the Entrance Hall, Exhibitions

Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives

Posted on 24 June 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Maps, Rare Books, Travel

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