Gustave David (1860–1936): the Cambridge bookseller
Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]
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A letter of gratitude
The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]
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Reformation lives
One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]
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A Theatre of Treasures
The third of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department: In 1968 an application was […]
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Views of the Beagle Expedition
The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:
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A Choirbook fit for a King?
Today saw the beginning of our series of show-and-tell events, ‘Treasures of the University Library’, with talks given by Anna Pensaert, Head of Music Collections. […]
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The Great Fire of London
On this day 350 years ago – 2nd September 1666 – began the Great Fire of London, which burned for three days, consuming 13,000 houses, […]
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Training of Electrical Engineers – how it was done in 1894
A very interesting process called electrification occurred in Britain and other countries from mid-1880 until around 1950. This process included the changeover from line shafts […]
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Collecting Brexit
In 1915, Francis Jenkinson placed an advertisement in the Cambridge Magazine appealing for material relating to the unfolding war, adding “Such flying pieces as those […]
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The irresistible search for hidden Scriptures
Eighty years ago in 1936 Cambridge University Library received a manuscript, bequeathed by its owner Agnes Smith Lewis at her death in 1926. It is […]
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