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 »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 »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 »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 »A guest post by Julien Domercq, winner of the inaugural Cambridge University Library/History of Art Student Curatorial Competition and curator of the exhibition ‘The death […]
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »William Shakespeare was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 26 April 1564; since at least the eighteenth century, his birthdate has been given as […]
Continue reading »On this day – April 21st – in 1564, in the same week as Shakespeare was born, Thomas Lorkyn was appointed as the fourth Regius […]
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