The medieval University goes online
The earliest surviving official set in Cambridge of the University’s medieval statutes is one of three treasures from the University Archives newly online as part […]
Continue reading »The earliest surviving official set in Cambridge of the University’s medieval statutes is one of three treasures from the University Archives newly online as part […]
Continue reading »In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]
Continue reading »On the 19th and 20th of October a conference was held in Basel to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the explorer John […]
Continue reading »The leading Austrian Modernist writer, Arthur Schnitzler, died on 21 October 1931. Marking the anniversary of the author’s death, the digital portal constructed for the […]
Continue reading »A recent blog post revelled in the unusual, often humorous, questions asked in the Reading Room from the 1930s to the 1970s and recorded by […]
Continue reading »A guest blog post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent Sir George Biddell Airy was the Astronomer Royal and the director of the Royal Observatory […]
Continue reading »Working in the University Archives as Archives Trainee gives one a unique insight into the varied academic interests and behaviours of our enquirers, both past […]
Continue reading »The portrait of Anne Jarvis, first female University Librarian 2009-16, was unveiled on the 7th July. Inquiring into the identity of the first female member […]
Continue reading »A month ago, we announced the digitisation of the earliest known draft of part the King James Bible, MS Ward B of Sidney Sussex College. […]
Continue reading »by Fay Humphreys Cambridge University Press was established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been authorised by Henry […]
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