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Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California

Posted on 14 May 2019 by James Freeman

Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

Medieval Palaeography Workshop Programme 2019

Posted on 29 April 2019 by James Freeman

Every Easter Term, the University Library hosts the Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop.

Events, Manuscripts, Special Collections

The literary papers of Humphrey Jennings

Posted on 24 April 2019 by Sally Kent

The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds two boxes of papers relating to the filmmaker, painter and writer Humphrey Jennings (1907-50), now catalogued as […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

A previously unrecorded sewing technique from the 12th Century.

Posted on 11 April 2019 by CUL Conservation

Posted on 11/04/2019 by Jim Bloxam A new essay, by Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson, has been published in Suave Mechanicals: Essays in the History of […]

Conservation, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Discoveries in the reading rooms

Posted on 8 April 2019 by Emily Dourish

Readers working with material in the University Library’s Special Collections reading rooms are accustomed to discovering new and exciting things every day, whether that be […]

Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

A new Archive Management System for Cambridge

Posted on 3 April 2019 by Special Collections

There is a healthy tradition of collaboration among archives in Cambridge. Local archival repositories vary widely in size from large (like the University Library’s Archives […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Manuscripts, Special Collections

15th century manorial account roll discovered in clean archives!

Posted on 29 March 2019 by Sian Collins

Yes, actually ‘discovered’! Unlike some purported discoveries of archives (which are actually fully catalogued and have been available to (and consulted by) users for years), […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Special Collections

Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Posted on 13 March 2019 by Katrina Dean

Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]

Archives, Astronomy, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Darwin Correspondence Project, Engineering, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Science, Special Collections

‘The World Is Not Enough’: Devotional Manuscripts of the Bond Family in Cambridge University Library

Posted on 5 March 2019 by Special Collections

Here’s a guest post by Dr Francis Young about a recent acquisition by the UL: On 22 February 2019 Cambridge University Library received the generous […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Christian Works, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections