‘Scandalous & libellous books’ at the University Library
As a copyright library, and the recipient over the years of many large private collections, the University Library often receives material which it might not […]
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Robert Bloomfield, ‘the first of rural bards’
The poet Robert Bloomfield, author of The farmer’s boy, was born in Suffolk two hundred and fifty years ago, in December 1766. Of humble parentage, […]
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Curator for a Day
In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]
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Asante Goldweights
This post is inspired by the set of Asante goldweights, boxes and scale currently on display in the Curious Objects exhibition, which celebrates the Library’s […]
Continue reading »Agnes Miller Parker’s wood engravings: bringing the word to life
This year’s winner of the History of Art/University Library Curatorial Competition is Anna McGee, whose exhibition ‘Agnes Miller Parker’s wood engravings: bringing the word to […]
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Capability Brown at 300
A guest post by Katy Layton-Jones, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Baptised three hundred years ago, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–1783) remains one of […]
Continue reading »Poems and Ballads at 150
This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (1866) which appalled Victorian readers with its anti-authoritarianism, republicanism […]
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Towel-Related Literature in the Holdings of Cambridge University Library
A towel … is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it […]
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John Fisher (ca 1469-1535), martyr (and archivist)
John Fisher’s principled opposition to Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon resulted in his conviction for treason and execution in 1535. Everyone remembers the […]
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Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library
Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]
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