‘The necklace of her kingdom’: Elizabeth I and Cambridge
In August 1564 – 450 years ago this month – Queen Elizabeth I visited Cambridge for the first time during her reign. The town was […]
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‘Swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget’: Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War Poems in Context
The First World War was one of the defining conflicts of European history. On 4 August 1914, the date when Britain entered the War, a […]
Continue reading »Flesh wounds : David Holbrook and D-Day
David Holbrook, later well-known as a writer, educationist and controversialist, landed in Normandy as a twenty-one year old tank commander on D-Day, 6 June 1944. […]
Continue reading »Beasts in the University Library
Guest post by Harriet Hale, Graduate Library Trainee at Trinity College. Cambridge. One of the great things about a traineeship in Cambridge is that, with […]
Continue reading »Thomas Erpenius: an Arabist of many talents
Thomas van Erpe, or Erpenius, as he is usually known, is best remembered for his collection of Arabic manuscripts which came to the University Library […]
Continue reading »Pricking and Pouncing: Alchemical Discoveries in Special Collections
By Anke Timmermann, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2013-14 Dragon, man and god combined: a winged messenger of alchemy past. My recent encounter with this […]
Continue reading »Special Collections at the Science Festival
The Cambridge Science Festival takes place from 10-23 March and is bigger than ever before. The University Library is hosting several talks and interactive events […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Sir John Glover
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library has recently published an on-line catalogue of the papers of Sir John Hawley Glover. A Royal […]
Continue reading »‘rhythm and line and necessity’: John Riley and Czargrad
A new exhibition in the University Library Entrance Hall traces the composition of John Riley’s poem Czargrad, a seminal work in the alternative tradition of […]
Continue reading »The Moving Word
The Moving Word: French Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge is the current exhibition in the Milstein Exhibition Centre, running until 17 April. On display are […]
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