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Festival of Ideas 2017 at the University Library

Posted on 16 October 2017 by Special Collections

The Special Collections team are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities […]

Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

‘The Tweed’ in Colombo Harbour, 1888

Posted on 2 October 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is thrilled to have acquired a beautiful historical painting from John Weatherstone, who has already generously donated much of the […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Edward Gibbon’s library: a new acquisition

Posted on 13 September 2017 by Liam Sims

Thanks to three private collectors in the twentieth century, Cambridge libraries contain significant holdings of books by and from the library of Edward Gibbon, eighteenth-century […]

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

Sir George Biddell Airy: instrument making and engineering

Posted on 24 August 2017 by Dr Emma Saunders

A guest blog post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent Sir George Biddell Airy was the Astronomer Royal and the director of the Royal Observatory […]

Archives, Astronomy, Engineering, Science, Special Collections

A typographical trip to Lyon

Posted on 13 July 2017 by Liam Sims

The University Library has, since the 1970s, maintained an Historical Printing Room, where practical teaching on the history of printing has long taken place. We […]

Historical Printing, Rare Books, Special Collections, Uncategorized

The Third Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting

Posted on 7 July 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

On the 29-30th June, Cambridge University Library hosted a very successful meeting to discuss holdings of papyrus texts and issues surrounding their curation, conservation and […]

Conservation, Events, Near and Middle Eastern, Papyrus, Special Collections

A Quaker bequest to the University Library

Posted on 3 July 2017 by Liam Sims

In 2016 a large collection of Quaker material was added to the Library’s holdings and a selection is now on display in the Library’s Entrance […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arrangement

Posted on 12 June 2017 by Special Collections

Rare early illustrations of the Japanese art of flower arrangement, now known as ikebana 生花, will be on display in the University Library Entrance Hall […]

Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections