Bookers, sugar and Guyana
Bookers Cash and Carry, a subsidiary of Tesco PLC, is one of the largest wholesale distributors of food and drink in the United Kingdom with […]
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Jean Boyd: schoolteacher, educationalist and scholar of Northern Nigeria
In late 2024, Cambridge University Library accepted a tranche of papers relating to the career of the schoolteacher, educationalist and scholar Jean Boyd (1934-2022) who […]
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Library Collaborates with Experts to Use AI to Explore Mexico’s Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Guest post by Dr Joshua Fitzgerald, former Munby Fellow in Bibliography (Cambridge University Library & St John’s College Cambridge). How is the future of AI […]
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Newnham College Christine de Pizan manuscript digitised
This post is by Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis, Learning and Research Engagement Officer at the University Library. She has been researching and writing about the fifteenth-century […]
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Cucumbers for Constipation and Vinegar for Verrucas: Curious Cures from the 21st Century
The University Library’s new exhibition – Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World – delves into the intriguing, strange and sometimes improbable medical recipes from […]
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A Tudor Medical Manuscript: Winchester Geese, Bullet Extractors, and Cataplasms from the Court of Henry VIII
Followers of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project who also listen BBC Radio 4 comedy show The Unbelievable Truth may have heard some very […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Pagoda at Pa-Li-Chuang
Constance Gordon-Cumming drew this image of a pagoda for an article she published in The English Illustrated Magazine in 1888 entitled ‘Pagodas, Aurioles and Umbrellas.’ […]
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Charles Hamilton Sorley remembered
A guest post by Jonathan Spain. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently catalogued a small archive relating to the First World War […]
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A Remnant from the Ruined City of Akhsikath, Uzbekistan: Another Rare Persianate Manuscript Belonging to Erpenius
As I have previously discussed,[1] Cambridge University Library (henceforth: CUL) has housed the main part of the personal library of the famous Dutch Orientalist, Thomas […]
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The Blue Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah: A Rare Copy of a Malay Folk Story at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Note: My thanks go to Dr H. C. Carron, Dr Amy Leahy and Professor Barry Windeatt of Emmanuel College Library, University of Cambridge, for allowing […]
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