Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion
Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]
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Reading Euclid at Cambridge
Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]
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Smelly Remedy: Womb Fumigation Illustrated in Seventeenth Century Print
Swelling, shifting and releasing noxious vapours, the Early Modern womb was deemed to be an unruly organ and the cause of numerous ailments. The symptoms […]
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From Flat Plains to Ascending Hills: Conservation challenges for the Greenough Map
By Lucy Cheng and Ngaio Vince-Dewerse Ever wanted to go behind the scenes to get a glimpse of how an exhibition is put together? The […]
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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’
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 […]
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Reckoning the lost and found: tally sticks re-discovered at the UL
In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]
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Thom Gunn revived and remembered
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 »Festival of Ideas 2017 at the University Library
The Special Collections team are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities […]
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Liberation Lecture and Pop-up Exhibition
On 14 November, the University Library will host a pop-up display of rare material from the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, the definitive collection of French books on […]
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Student, soldier and author: Basil Godfrey Quin MC.
The Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres was fought one hundred years ago between July and November 1917. One of the regiments involved was the […]
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