‘A Trunk of Writings’: The Fate of Samuel Ward’s Papers
A month ago, we announced the digitisation of the earliest known draft of part the King James Bible, MS Ward B of Sidney Sussex College. […]
Continue reading »A month ago, we announced the digitisation of the earliest known draft of part the King James Bible, MS Ward B of Sidney Sussex College. […]
Continue reading »It is rare that archival research makes the national news. Jeffrey Alan Miller’s identification of a draft of a portion of the King James Bible […]
Continue reading »By Anna Johnson Cambridge University Library may not often be thought of as a significant repository for papyri, but we do have a moderately […]
Continue reading »In the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall brings together the three letters written by Austen held in […]
Continue reading »The latest addition to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Album amicorum of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). The Album amicorum – literally ‘book of friends’ – […]
Continue reading »If you’ve visited the University Library recently, you may have noticed the striking new exhibition of woven artworks in our entrance hall. What you may […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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 »Guest post by Dr Francis Young In 1970 Peterborough Cathedral placed its ancient manuscripts on permanent loan to Cambridge University Library, owing to the unsuitable […]
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