Public Schools and Empire
Between 1925 and 1939 more than 500 schoolboys from some of the most well-known and exclusive fee-paying schools in Britain participated in tours to what […]
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Inside Darwin’s bookshelves: a project to catalogue his personal library
Post by Alex Cuadrado, Darwin Library Cataloguer Charles Darwin changed how we see our place in nature, but how did he build the theories that […]
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The Reverend Richard Sheepshanks and the Euphrates Expedition
Post by Dr Samantha Evans, Assistant Archivist Towards the end of last year, I was given the task of cataloguing two banker’s boxes of early-nineteenth-century papers […]
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Cambridge University Farm: a practical setting for the study of Agriculture
Eddington, on Cambridge’s north west side, is one of its newest suburbs, developed since 2013 to meet University housing needs. It extends over the former […]
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Rehousing unusual objects: a challenging conservation project
Special Collections in the University Library include more than just books, manuscripts, maps and archives. The teams also look after a wide range of textual […]
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Releasing the knowledge we don’t have time to lose: collaboration between the University Museum of Zoology and Cambridge University Library
As part of the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub project (ArCH), Cambridge University Library has been collaborating with the Museum of Zoology (UMZC) to explore […]
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Jean Boyd: schoolteacher, educationalist and scholar of Northern Nigeria
In late 2024, Cambridge University Library accepted a tranche of papers relating to the career of the schoolteacher, educationalist and scholar Jean Boyd (1934-2022) who […]
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Papua New Guinea at 50: the papers of Francis West
Earlier this month, on 16th September 2025, Papua New Guinea celebrated the 50th anniversary of its independence. Prior to 1975, the Territory of Papua and […]
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The Bible Society’s First Mexican Gospels and the Polyglot Scot Who Would Learn Nahuatl
This post is by Munby Fellow in Bibliography Dr Joshua Fitzgerald. Joshua is an ethnohistorian researching Nahua (commonly “Aztec”) history, art and cultural heritage, especially […]
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Correspondence of Walter Buchanan-Smith from Borneo and Nigeria
Walter Buchanan-Smith (1879-1944) was in many ways an archetypal British colonial administrator: privately educated, a keen sportsman, a lover of dogs and ponies, and quickly […]
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