‘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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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, […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]
Continue reading »Our eighth and final ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talk was given by Dr Emily Dourish, Deputy Head of Rare Books:
Continue reading »One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]
Continue reading »Image: Detail of a 16th-century woodcut showing the Schools quadrangle with Rotherham’s library above (Sel.3.229) The first record of a book being borrowed from Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Would you like the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the most precious items from Cambridge University Library’s collections? To celebrate our 600th anniversary, […]
Continue reading »On this day 350 years ago – 2nd September 1666 – began the Great Fire of London, which burned for three days, consuming 13,000 houses, […]
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