Curious Cures: the making of a medieval folded manuscript
This post is by Beckett Thornber, an MA Conservation Studies student, specialising in books and library materials, at West Dean College. He spent six weeks […]
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Cucumbers for Constipation and Vinegar for Verrucas: Curious Cures from the 21st Century
The University Library’s new exhibition – Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World – delves into the intriguing, strange and sometimes improbable medical recipes from […]
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Childbirth and charms: two new online exhibitions
This guest post is by Summer Mainstone-Cotton and Aine Widdicombe, who are Masters students at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge respectively. Earlier this year, […]
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Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions
This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.
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Classroom photographic journeys: the Alfred Hugh Fisher Collection
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 […]
Continue reading »Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns
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. […]
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Conservation for a Legendary Exhibition
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 […]
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Sounds of the Samurai
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 […]
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Conservation of a Bound Volume of Letters from the Darwin Archive
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, […]
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War and words: Colin Macaulay and his manuscript connections
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 […]
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