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A Theatre of Treasures

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Anne Taylor

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 […]

Digital Resources, Events, Maps, Special Collections

Views of the Beagle Expedition

Posted on 6 October 2016 by Special Collections

The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Events, Special Collections

A Choirbook fit for a King?

Posted on 4 October 2016 by Special Collections

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. […]

Manuscripts, Music, Special Collections

The Great Fire of London

Posted on 2 September 2016 by Liam Sims

On this day 350 years ago – 2nd September 1666 – began the Great Fire of London, which burned for three days, consuming 13,000 houses, […]

Anniversaries, Rare Books, Special Collections

Training of Electrical Engineers – how it was done in 1894

Posted on 29 July 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

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 […]

Library history, Photographs, Rare Books, Special Collections

Collecting Brexit

Posted on 1 July 2016 by William Hale

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 […]

Archives, Special Collections

The irresistible search for hidden Scriptures

Posted on 21 April 2016 by Yasmin

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Martin Bucer and the Reformation in Cambridge

Posted on 12 April 2016 by Liam Sims

Between 17th and 19th March, a number of Cambridge librarians – along with a host of academics – spent a happy time in the Parker […]

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

Glimpses of early Siam and Burma [Thailand and Myanmar]

Posted on 6 April 2016 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just created an electronic catalogue for one of its largest and most significant manuscript collections: the papers of the […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections