Material Evidence in Incunabula – guest post
The following post has been written by Ester Peric, an intern in the Rare Books Department for the month of August updating MEI records (material […]
Continue reading »Category: Special Collections
A miscellany of new acquisitions
Last July this blog featured a note about a collection of Quaker books, bequeathed to the Library in 2016 by David J. Hall (1947-2015), former […]
Continue reading »Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]
Continue reading »
Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion
Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]
Continue reading »
Reading Euclid at Cambridge
Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]
Continue reading »
Workshop on the Life and Work of Sir George Biddell Airy
A guest post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent On 29 June 2018, Cambridge University Library will host a workshop on the life and […]
Continue reading »Lectures: A material history of the Bible in England 1200-1600
A forthcoming public lecture series at Cambridge University Library: A Material History of the Bible in England, 1200-1600 by Dr Eyal Poleg, Senior Lecturer in […]
Continue reading »Award for the UL’s Honorary Keeper of Japanese Books
In March, the Japanese embassy in London held a reception for Professor Emeritus Peter Kornicki, who has received one of Japan’s highest honours: the Order […]
Continue reading »
LGBT History Month at the UL
During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges and other institutions across town and University to mark LGBT History Month, an annual […]
Continue reading »
From Flat Plains to Ascending Hills: Conservation challenges for the Greenough Map
By Lucy Cheng and Ngaio Vince-Dewerse Ever wanted to go behind the scenes to get a glimpse of how an exhibition is put together? The […]
Continue reading »