Tour de France countdown: 3
In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]
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Tour de France countdown: 4
In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]
Continue reading »Tour de France countdown: 5
In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]
Continue reading »Tour de France countdown: 6
In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]
Continue reading »Tour de France countdown: 7
In just seven days the Tour de France will be in Cambridge. In honour of this event, the Special Collections blog will, over the next […]
Continue reading »Moving to the new University Library in 1934
Exactly eighty years ago today, at 4:02pm on 31st May 1934, the last visitor left the old University Library, housed in the building known as […]
Continue reading »Friends talk: Literature of the Liberation (4 June)
The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey on the ‘Literature of the Liberation’ in conjunction with the exhibition […]
Continue reading »Broughton Parish Library: preservation and conservation
The collection of rare books held by Cambridge University Library has been built up over more than six centuries by a variety of means, including […]
Continue reading »Literature of the Liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946
A new exhibition in the Library celebrates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris and shows some of the books that were published, mainly […]
Continue reading »Claude Sitwell Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is delighted to announce the acquisition of photographs and correspondence relating to the soldier and colonial administrator Lt. Col. Claude […]
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