Recognising books made in Cambridge: the Cambridge Bookbindings Project
This post is by Dr David Pearson, until 2017 Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation, who is currently engaged […]
Continue reading »This post is by Dr David Pearson, until 2017 Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation, who is currently engaged […]
Continue reading »Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]
Continue reading »The following post has been written by Ester Peric, an intern in the Rare Books Department for the month of August updating MEI records (material […]
Continue reading »Last July this blog featured a note about a collection of Quaker books, bequeathed to the Library in 2016 by David J. Hall (1947-2015), former […]
Continue reading »The Library’s exhibition “Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower” highlights some of the books in our holdings that you might not necessarily expect to find […]
Continue reading »In 2009 a history of the British Library was published with the title ‘Libraries within the Library’, a phrase which might just as easily be […]
Continue reading »As Special Collections curators and subject specialists we’re all used to hosting visits to the University Library for academics, students and members of the adult […]
Continue reading »Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]
Continue reading »A forthcoming public lecture series at Cambridge University Library: A Material History of the Bible in England, 1200-1600 by Dr Eyal Poleg, Senior Lecturer in […]
Continue reading »During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges and other institutions across town and University to mark LGBT History Month, an annual […]
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