Alan Howard and the Howard Foundation
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]
Continue reading »In October 2023, CVC fellows Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla ran a workshop at Cambridge University Library (CUL) entitled ‘Putting our resources to work: transforming […]
Continue reading »Robert (Robin) Hill was born in 1899. After reading natural sciences, and specializing in chemistry, at Cambridge, he had a successful career in biochemistry, becoming […]
Continue reading »16 new collections have been added to the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) archive catalogue over the past year. These range from single photograph albums and […]
Continue reading »Excavated from a basement store last December, archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) are now catalogued as part of the […]
Continue reading »This summer’s blockbuster, Oppenheimer, begins the chronological recounting of the physicist’s life in Cambridge. The recent Harvard graduate, later dubbed the ‘father of the atomic […]
Continue reading »‘The care of books is a difficult business’, remarked Francis Jenkinson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Library Association in 1905 […]
Continue reading »Professor Deborah Prentice, the new Vice-Chancellor, assumes the duties of office on 1st July and will be formally admitted at a Congregation of the Regent […]
Continue reading »This guest post is by Sana Ginwalla, an Indian-Zambian photographer and curator, founder and director of Zambia Belonging – a counter-archive of photographs which explore […]
Continue reading »By Kevin Roberts, Archivist (Department of Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently purchased and catalogued the logbooks of […]
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