An earthen pot full of bones: true crime in Sutton
An extraordinary set of sworn testimonies in the assize files for the Isle of Ely shed light on the curious case of a missing child. […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Introducing our new conservators
We are Marina Pelissari and Marie Renaudin, the new conservators joining the thrilling Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project team! In 2019 we both qualified as […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. We have been making great progress since the last Archive Management System update […]
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Erotica comes to Cambridge
When one thinks of the great collections which Cambridge University Library has built up over its six centuries, erotic literature is probably not very near […]
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A census of sixteenth-century Venice
Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]
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A letter of apology to Thomas Young
‘I am sorry I should have detained the proof longer than I intended, as the stone was just finished on Tuesday, and taken to Ackermann’s […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 1
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project has been a great support in encouraging continued professional development within the project. In this blog post we will […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project at the University Library. It has been a very busy […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Apart … together
In a previous #PolonskyGreek project blogpost Conserving fragments, conservators discussed their work on the fragments; this blogpost describes how cataloguers can deal with the challenges […]
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The CERL annual seminar on collaborative digital methods
The Consortium of European Research Libraries recently held its annual seminar for 2019 in the Historisches Gebäude of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen under the […]
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