Papers of a forgotten folklorist: Charles Dack
There is often more to the books in Cambridge University’s Rare Books Room than meets the eye, with many of them containing unique handwritten accessory […]
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Edward Gibbon’s library: a new acquisition
Thanks to three private collectors in the twentieth century, Cambridge libraries contain significant holdings of books by and from the library of Edward Gibbon, eighteenth-century […]
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A typographical trip to Lyon
The University Library has, since the 1970s, maintained an Historical Printing Room, where practical teaching on the history of printing has long taken place. We […]
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A Quaker bequest to the University Library
In 2016 a large collection of Quaker material was added to the Library’s holdings and a selection is now on display in the Library’s Entrance […]
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Recent Acquisition: Tippling Sally
Guest post by Cliff Webb.
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Looking for an outlet for your creativity, or a stress-relieving pastime with a cultural twist? This year the University Library is taking part in the […]
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‘Scandalous & libellous books’ at the University Library
As a copyright library, and the recipient over the years of many large private collections, the University Library often receives material which it might not […]
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The poet Robert Bloomfield, author of The farmer’s boy, was born in Suffolk two hundred and fifty years ago, in December 1766. Of humble parentage, […]
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Curator for a Day
In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]
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Gustave David (1860–1936): the Cambridge bookseller
Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]
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