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Francis Jenkinson: a pop-up exhibition

Posted on 7 October 2023 by Special Collections

Yesterday the University Library hosted a conference to mark one hundred years since the death (on 21 September 1923) of Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian for […]

Collectors and collecting, librarians, Library history, Special Collections, women

Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon

Posted on 6 October 2023 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]

Curious Cures, Digital Resources, Events, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The First Islamic Material at Cambridge University Library: Unearthing Bedwell’s Forgotten Manuscript

Posted on 13 September 2023 by Majid Daneshgar

Dr Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Study at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He was previously Munby Fellow 2022-23 […]

Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

‘Nothing more important for the linking of the sciences and humanities’: archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Posted on 6 September 2023 by Jacky Cox

Excavated from a basement store last December, archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) are now catalogued as part of the […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Medicine, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

A Persian Manuscript for Samuel Pepys: Naval Networks and Indology in Restoration England

Posted on 4 September 2023 by Special Collections

This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]

Library history, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Taking Curious Cures from Cambridge to Copenhagen

Posted on 1 September 2023 by CUL Conservation

Our Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project conservators Marina Pelissari and Rachel Sawicki recently presented a paper at the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts Seminar […]

Conservation, Curious Cures, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Oppenheimer and the poisoned apple

Posted on 15 August 2023 by Jacky Cox

This summer’s blockbuster, Oppenheimer, begins the chronological recounting of the physicist’s life in Cambridge. The recent Harvard graduate, later dubbed the ‘father of the atomic […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Physics, Science, Special Collections

Translating Persian Tafsir in Aceh: The Oldest Malay “Story of Joseph” at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 14 August 2023 by Majid Daneshgar

This post is written by Dr Majid Daneshgar who recently completed his Munby fellowship at Cambridge University Library and is now Associate Professor of Area […]

Manuscripts, South-east Asian, Special Collections

The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium

Posted on 7 August 2023 by James Freeman

‘The care of books is a difficult business’, remarked Francis Jenkinson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Library Association in 1905 […]