Rupert Brooke: 100 years on
The latest exhibition to occupy the Library’s Entrance Hall cases concerns Rupert Brooke, who died a century ago this year (23 April 1915) and was […]
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‘It’s all in a day’s work’: the Royal Greenwich Observatory Audio-Visual Collection, Stories of Observatory Life
For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. Observing distant stars, recording sunspots, […]
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‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library
In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]
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Decorated paper wrappers in the University Library
There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]
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Make and Create
It’s not often that librarians get to work under canvas but this year the UL took part in the Cambridge University Museums Make and Create […]
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The ghostly world of M. R. James
Among the Library’s recent acquisitions is a privately printed ghost story by M. R. James, who died on this day in 1936. It is the […]
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New acquisitions from Edward Gibbon’s library
On this day in 1737 was born Edward Gibbon: historian, Member of Parliament and author of The history of the decline & fall of the […]
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Conservation of Indian miniatures
The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections in Cambridge University Library contain a very attractive collection of nineteenth century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil […]
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Rupert Brooke: 100 years on
A century ago today – on 23rd April 1915 – died Rupert Brooke, lauded in his lifetime as one of the country’s finest poets. This […]
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Ornaments to be engrav’d
The Library recently acquired a collection of about fifty wholly engraved books, that is books in which both text and illustration are printed from intaglio […]
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