Library history – Page 6 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

His Royal Favour: the Books that Built the Library

Posted on 1 October 2015 by Emily Dourish

The University Library’s latest exhibition looks in detail at the formation and arrival in Cambridge of the Royal Library, a collection that has been at […]

Collectors and collecting, Digital Resources, Exhibitions, Library history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Liam Sims

In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

New acquisitions from Edward Gibbon’s library

Posted on 8 May 2015 by Liam Sims

On this day in 1737 was born Edward Gibbon: historian, Member of Parliament and author of The history of the decline & fall of the […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

The library of Gabriel Harvey

Posted on 19 March 2015 by Liam Sims

Discoveries are made frequently in libraries, and the University Library is no exception. Staff and readers alike may call up a volume which has been […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Robert Hooke and his Micrographia

Posted on 12 January 2015 by Liam Sims

When Samuel Pepys strode through the City of London to visit his bookseller – a journey he made frequently – on 2 January 1665, he […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Charles Sayle (1864-1924): poet, bibliographer & librarian

Posted on 6 December 2014 by Liam Sims

Charles Edward Sayle – poet, bibliographer and librarian – was born 150 years ago on this day in 1864. His surname may be familiar to […]

Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Manuscripts, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

Moving to the new University Library in 1934

Posted on 31 May 2014 by Liam Sims

Exactly eighty years ago today, at 4:02pm on 31st May 1934, the last visitor left the old University Library, housed in the building known as […]

Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

29 May: Talk by Peter Fox on the history of Trinity College Library Dublin

Posted on 22 May 2014 by Special Collections

The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by the Emeritus University Librarian, Peter Fox to mark the launch of his new book, […]

Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Library history