‘My dearest Siegfried’: The Egremont Sassoon Papers
Poet and author Siegfried Sassoon was a prolific letter writer and throughout his life maintained a close friendship and correspondence with his mother Georgiana Theresa […]
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Abbreviationes online
New on eresources@cambridge A-Z : Abbreviationes online Abbreviationes Online is a database designed to help researchers in the identification and expansion of abbreviations of Latin […]
Continue reading »Britten and Purcell: the arc of universal harmony
The University Library is celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s greatest composers, Benjamin Britten, with a display in the Entrance Hall exhibition cases. Best […]
Continue reading »Unusual pictures from the Manuscripts Department as it launches Image of the Month
Today the Manuscripts Department launches its Image of the Month project. The Image of the Month will feature single images of interesting objects or information […]
Continue reading »‘All things go free that have survived’: Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
Seamus Heaney, the most celebrated member of a remarkable generation of Irish poets, died on the 30th of August at the age of 74. His […]
Continue reading »The Allberry fragments: Manichaean texts rediscovered
A lecture by Professor Nils Arne Pedersen on ‘The Syriac-Manichaean “Allberry fragments”: how they were rediscovered, and what they can tell us’ will be held […]
Continue reading »‘It is a person’s privilege to go to hell’: how Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alice Ambrose fell out
It’s known that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein fell out with one of his most beloved students, the American logician Alice Ambrose. The source of the […]
Continue reading »‘A thing useful against evils’ – An Anglo-Saxon gospel book from Northumbria
For early medieval Christian communities, a gospel book was a treasured possession and, according to an Anglo-Saxon riddle, ‘a thing useful against evils’. The most […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Library and the Blitz
We are delighted to announce the publication of a detailed on-line catalogue for the archives of the Royal Commonwealth Society. This collection is composed of […]
Continue reading »The Library Hand
A collection of miscellaneous handwriting samples, recently catalogued by Dr J.F. Coakley, has yielded a few slips of paper bearing alphabets and other specimens for […]
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