A Rare Books Advent Calendar: 1st December
Some of you will remember the extremely popular “Victorian Christmas” Advent calendar, posted on these pages in December 2012, which drew exclusively on nineteenth-century material […]
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Abbreviationes online
New on eresources@cambridge A-Z : Abbreviationes online Abbreviationes Online is a database designed to help researchers in the identification and expansion of abbreviations of Latin […]
Continue reading »Laurence Sterne’s tercentenary: a guest post by Mary Newbould
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), one of the most celebrated comic writers of his and perhaps of all time, celebrates his tercentenary this year. Sterne’s special relationship […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 20 November 2013
Professor David McKitterick (Librarian and Vice-Master at Trinity College Cambridge) will give a paper on ‘What is the use of books without pictures? Empty space […]
Continue reading »Of hammers, bouts and bets: a guest post by Jaap Harskamp
An intriguing catalogue concerning the London auction of the possessions of prizefighter Tom Sayers (1826–1865) Being closely associated with the exploration and extension of the […]
Continue reading »The ‘Cambridge Rules’ of football, 1863
150 years ago today, the English Football Association was founded. In a London tavern a group of representatives from a dozen clubs playing their own […]
Continue reading »Rare Spanish plays on display
The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]
Continue reading »Festival of Ideas
Special Collections staff are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities and social […]
Continue reading »Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2014
Cambridge University Library is delighted to open this year’s competition for the 2014 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by […]
Continue reading »1513–2013: Il Principe is 500 years old
The year 2013 marks the quincentenary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe, one of the most widely read political writings of all time. The Italian Collections […]
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