Egypt on a tourist’s mind
A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]
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Picturesque and prosaic launch to Cambridge University Archives collection in the Digital Library
Cambridge University Digital Library’s newest collection, Cambridge University Archives, is small but choice; a taste of riches to come. The University Archives is responsible for […]
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Changi archives Entrance Hall exhibition
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have mounted an exhibition in the entrance hall of Cambridge University Library displaying some of the most significant items […]
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Displayed in the ‘Curious objects’ exhibition is one of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection. It is a copy of the Persian […]
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‘Scandalous & libellous books’ at the University Library
As a copyright library, and the recipient over the years of many large private collections, the University Library often receives material which it might not […]
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Curator for a Day
In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]
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The Peterborough Cathedral Manuscripts and the Peterborough Lapidary
Guest post by Dr Francis Young In 1970 Peterborough Cathedral placed its ancient manuscripts on permanent loan to Cambridge University Library, owing to the unsuitable […]
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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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