The man who discovered a ‘lost’ wonder of the world
Among the numerous treasures at Cambridge University Library are the private documents of the explorer John Lewis Burckhardt, who rediscovered the ancient city of Petra […]
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‘Moore Bede’ on TV and in ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition
“It’s no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important books in the story of Britain”—Michael Wood on ‘The Moore Bede’. The […]
Continue reading »Joanne Limburg Papers
For some time the Library has been engaged in building its collections of papers of modern and contemporary poets with local Cambridge connections, whether to […]
Continue reading »Rehabilitating Henrietta
A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library is leading us to reassess one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s […]
Continue reading »A Claudel archive
During the First World War, the poet, playwright and diplomat Paul Claudel (1868-1955) struck up a friendship with Audrey Parr, the wife of a British […]
Continue reading »The Crimean War letters of Captain Blackett
Alma Crimea Sep th 21st My dear Father, I have hardly a moment, but take the present opportunity of letting you know that all is […]
Continue reading »Burckhardt in Cambridge
Housed inside a small brown box shelved alongside other Library manuscripts is an assortment of 15 slim notebooks formerly belonging to the scholar and explorer […]
Continue reading »Sandars Lectures 2011-2012
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography was instituted in 1895 with a bequest of £2000 left to the University by Mr Samuel Sandars of Trinity College […]
Continue reading »Hard luck
The ‘hard luck story’ has a long pedigree, and there has always been difficulty knowing how much — if anything — in each tale is […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Edmund Blunden
Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
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