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Queering the UL

Posted on 5 February 2019 by Liam Sims

February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]

Exhibitions, Japanese, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

The school years of Dame Muriel Spark

Posted on 18 January 2019 by Special Collections

This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]

Acquisitions, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

Despised, Adored and Often Ignored: school poetry anthologies and the trace of classrooms past

Posted on 7 January 2019 by Liam Sims

This post is by Julie Blake, a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, currently finishing her thesis on the nature of […]

Collectors and collecting, Events, Poetry, Rare Books, Rose Book-Collecting Prize, Special Collections

“I have just set a Hungarian rabbi at work…

Posted on 8 December 2018 by Catherine Ansorge

…upon our Hebrew manuscripts” said Henry Bradshaw in June 1865. Bradshaw was Head of the manuscript collections in the University Library and was keen to […]

Collectors and collecting, Hebrew, Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean

Posted on 6 December 2018 by CUL Conservation

by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

‘Truth-Untruth’: Brexit through letterpress

Posted on 29 November 2018 by Special Collections

This post is by Alan Qualtrough, a letterpress artist, graphic designer and typographer based in Plymouth who met two of the Library’s staff at a […]

Acquisitions, Historical Printing, Rare Books, Special Collections

A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair!

Posted on 20 November 2018 by Sian Collins

“You can learn about archives you may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]

Archives, Events, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Recognising books made in Cambridge: the Cambridge Bookbindings Project

Posted on 29 October 2018 by Special Collections

This post is by Dr David Pearson, until 2017 Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation, who is currently engaged […]

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

Mesmerised!

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Liam Sims

Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections