A Cure from the Crypt: Weapon Salve in the Library of John Dee
The astrologer, occultist, and alchemist John Dee (1527–1609) has long been associated with the art of necromancy – conjuring the spirits of the dead – […]
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Finding Henry Morris in the Cambridge University Press archives
This post is by Anna Crutchley, an archivist and textile designer-maker who teaches workshops in adult education centres around the country, including weaving at Cottenham […]
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Binocular Testing and Bomb Drops: The Philip Laurie War Diaries and Records on the History of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
On 15th October 1940, the Royal Observatory Greenwich was rocked by a German bomb blast which destroyed the main entrance gates. It was the first […]
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Hilda L. Everett: A Twentieth-Century Fenland Poet
One of the primary benefits of legal deposit is that all sorts of obscure, locally published material makes its way safely into a national collection […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Football in Burma
In the papers of Sir James George Scott there are a few photographs, including one of a football team featuring a mix of Burmese and […]
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An empire of literature: A new collection of colonial publications shows how British culture travelled the globe
Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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‘The Central Science’: records of the Chemistry Department added to the University Archives
A knowledge of molecular structures and properties is crucial in our understanding of large parts of science, from semiconductors to proteins and from the composition […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: William Thomson’s Submarine Cable
This summer marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907). Lord Kelvin gave his name, the ‘kelvin’, to the […]
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Strength in adversity: The hidden stories of two Cambridge Martins
Guest post by Matt Ryan, an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Newcastle University. His research focuses on the relationships between printers, publishers, booksellers, and writers in […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Edward Burne Jones’ Caricature
Amongst the correspondence and papers of the Baldwin, Kipling, Burne-Jones, Poynter, and Macdonald families (MS Add.9974) can be found a folder of drawings and sketches […]
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