‘rhythm and line and necessity’: John Riley and Czargrad
A new exhibition in the University Library Entrance Hall traces the composition of John Riley’s poem Czargrad, a seminal work in the alternative tradition of […]
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Conduct literature for and about women in Italy: a new exhibition
The display cases outside the Map Department are hosting a new exhibition entitled “Conduct literature for and about women in Italy: prescribing and describing life”. The […]
Continue reading »The Moving Word
The Moving Word: French Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge is the current exhibition in the Milstein Exhibition Centre, running until 17 April. On display are […]
Continue reading »New exhibition: the Lewis-Gibson collection
In August 2013 Cambridge University Library and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, jointly acquired 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts collected by the twin sisters Agnes Smith Lewis […]
Continue reading »Printing colour in Tudor England: a new exhibition
The Library’s Entrance Hall cases are hosting what is believed to be the first ever exhibition of colour printing produced in Tudor England. The history of […]
Continue reading »Laurence Sterne’s tercentenary: a guest post by Mary Newbould
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), one of the most celebrated comic writers of his and perhaps of all time, celebrates his tercentenary this year. Sterne’s special relationship […]
Continue reading »Britten and Purcell: the arc of universal harmony
The University Library is celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s greatest composers, Benjamin Britten, with a display in the Entrance Hall exhibition cases. Best […]
Continue reading »Rare Spanish plays on display
The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]
Continue reading »Donation to digitise Japanese treasures
Treasures from the University Library’s Japanese Collections are to be digitised and made freely available to a global audience, thanks to a gift from Professor […]
Continue reading »‘All things go free that have survived’: Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
Seamus Heaney, the most celebrated member of a remarkable generation of Irish poets, died on the 30th of August at the age of 74. His […]
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