Francis Fry: Maker of Chocolate … and Catalogues
This post is by Dr Harry Spillane, Munby Fellow in Bibliography for 2024/25. His research project, entitled ‘Collecting and Correcting: Histories of the English Bible […]
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Locks’ Press: When literature, printmaking, and art collide
Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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An empire of literature: A new collection of colonial publications shows how British culture travelled the globe
Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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Strength in adversity: The hidden stories of two Cambridge Martins
Guest post by Matt Ryan, an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Newcastle University. His research focuses on the relationships between printers, publishers, booksellers, and writers in […]
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Peter Pan in the Tower
Post by Dr Sarah Pyke, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2023/24, who is using the University Library’s legal deposit holdings (the Tower Collection) to survey illustrated […]
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‘A valuable & extensive library’: Tim Munby’s book sales catalogues
The Library holds extensive collections of books on bibliography, including on the history of libraries and collecting. One of the primary sources for understanding the […]
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John Baskerville’s ‘Small Performances’ project launch
This week the University Library was thrilled to host the launch of the AHRC-funded project “Small performances”: investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage […]
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The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium
‘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 […]
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Ghosts in the library: or, a bibliographical mystery solved
Information presented to library users in online catalogues is usually taken to be true and might rarely be questioned. Elements which might be passed over […]
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Eighty years of bad jokes: the UL’s rag mag collection
The practice of holding “rag weeks” or “rag days” in Universities to raise money for good causes seems to have started in the 1920s. In […]
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