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Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean

Posted on 6 December 2018 by CUL Conservation

by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair!

Posted on 20 November 2018 by Sian Collins

“You can learn about archives you may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]

Archives, Events, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Sassoon's journal entry for Armistice Day

Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day

Posted on 11 November 2018 by John Wells

The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]

Anniversaries, Manuscripts, Poetry

Steffens’ War

Posted on 5 November 2018 by Frank

24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Manuscripts

On a Roll: A New Acquisition

Posted on 28 September 2018 by James Freeman

Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce the acquisition of a late 13th-century rental roll originally made for the Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity, Ipswich. […]

Acquisitions, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Uncategorized

Devotion Made Digital: Encoding CUL MS Ll.5.18

Posted on 27 July 2018 by Special Collections

Guest post by Katherine Dixon, a PhD student in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, on her experience of collaborating with the Cambridge Digital Library. […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts

Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr

Posted on 23 July 2018 by John Wells

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]

Archives, Exhibitions, French, Manuscripts, Poetry, Special Collections

Judicial Combat

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Frank

These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]

Manuscripts

Pembroke College’s Benefactors’ Book

Posted on 1 June 2018 by James Freeman

A guest post from Jonathan Nathan, who is studying for his PhD in History. He is investigating the circulation of underground atheist literature through pre-modern […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Pembroke College