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Nineteenth-century dialect writing

Posted on 9 June 2020 by Special Collections

In the first in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Georgia Thurston (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) shares her research towards a […]

Rare Books, Special Collections

Some Islamic manuscripts from Africa

Posted on 5 June 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

In among the very varied items which constitute Library’s Islamic manuscript collection there is a small number of texts originating from the Saharan and sub-Saharan […]

Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 2 June 2020 by Special Collections

Milestones and project extension The AMS project team achieved some key milestones in May. 262,872 records from five University Library Cantab databases were successfully migrated […]

Archives, Special Collections

‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special collections in lockdown

Posted on 25 May 2020 by Special Collections

I dared not dream that this dream had come true:That I was bending over that yellow pageLit with his words – our boy, our poet, […]

Christian Works, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Coping with isolation: Ernest Shackleton & the Cambridge University Press publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Posted on 18 May 2020 by Special Collections

Given permission to depart in a telegram from the Admiralty with the single word ‘Proceed’, the Endurance sailed from Plymouth on 8 August 1914 to […]

Archives, Photographs, Special Collections

Rank rogues and errant thieves: slander and defamation in the Isle of Ely

Posted on 11 May 2020 by Sally Kent

… ‘base beggarly rogue’, ‘false perjurer’, ‘knave and rascal’, ‘errant thief’, ‘pick-pocket, cheating whore and cut-purse’, ‘forsworn man’, ‘witch’, ‘night-walker’, ‘rank rogue’ … At first glance the insults listed above may have been lifted directly from one of Shakespeare’s […]

Archives, Ely assizes, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 28 April 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System (AMS) Project for April 2020. The last few weeks have been a challenging time […]

Archives, Special Collections

A Journey in Isolation: A Postcard Travelogue

Posted on 27 April 2020 by Ian Pittock

“Today’s journey with the Map Department’s postcard collection…” or words to this effect have been a welcome companion as I’ve Tweeted my progress through several […]

Architecture, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Maps, Photographs, Special Collections, Travel, Uncategorized

Spreadsheets, shelflists & scones: Special Collections works from home

Posted on 16 April 2020 by Liam Sims

On Wednesday 18th March the University Library closed its doors to readers, in line with government advice around COVID-19. That afternoon saw many of Cambridge’s […]