Eighty years of bad jokes: the UL’s rag mag collection
The practice of holding “rag weeks” or “rag days” in Universities to raise money for good causes seems to have started in the 1920s. In […]
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Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions
This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.
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Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century Cairo
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts […]
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Becoming Vice-Chancellor …
Professor Deborah Prentice, the new Vice-Chancellor, assumes the duties of office on 1st July and will be formally admitted at a Congregation of the Regent […]
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Henry Bradshaw: an Irish book collector?
This post is by Dr Nora Moroney, Munby Fellow for 2022-23. Nora is working on the book collection of Henry Bradshaw (University Librarian 1867-86) at […]
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Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission
Post by Chloe Rushovich, Engagement and Communities Officer, RCS Carnegie Project As a part of a shared digital curation project, Creating New Connections, Cambridge University […]
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Two Decades of Digital Photography in the Library: Evolution of Practice and Technology
Post by Maciej M. Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, and Raffaella Losito, Photographer When photographers are working on the digitisation of special collections, they […]
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The Oldest Javanese Islamic Text at Cambridge University Library
This post is co-written by Dr Majid Daneshgar (Munby Fellow, CUL) & Prof. Edwin Wieringa (Professor of Indonesian Philology and Islamic Studies, University of Cologne, […]
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A glimpse into late Victorian rural education in the Fens
By Kevin Roberts, Archivist (Department of Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently purchased and catalogued the logbooks of […]
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Erpenius’s Indian Manuscripts: Old Telugu Texts at Cambridge University Library
Among the rich collection of oriental manuscripts belonging to Thomas Erpenius (d. 1624), there are still some items whose identity has remained obscure for centuries. […]
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