Inside Darwin’s bookshelves: a project to catalogue his personal library
Post by Alex Cuadrado, Darwin Library Cataloguer Charles Darwin changed how we see our place in nature, but how did he build the theories that […]
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Endometriosis & Menstrual Health in Special Collections
This post is by Ethan Sheard, Senior Library Assistant at the Seeley Library (and Endometriosis Workplace Champion). In December 2025 the University Library hosted (at […]
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Shakespeare’s First Folio conserved
The University Library is very lucky to have copies of all four Shakespeare folios printed in the seventeenth century (1623, 1632, 1664 & 1685). The […]
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A Lost Ballad Found: Rediscovering a Jephthah Ballad in the Norton Collection
A guest post by Dr John Colley, Research Fellow in English at St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2023 I began working on an edition of […]
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Medievalism in fin de siècle Paris: a new acquisition
One of the more enjoyable parts of curating the Library’s collection of rare books is adding new (old) books to our shelves, in areas which […]
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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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