A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair!
“You can learn about archives you may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]
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Steffens’ War
24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]
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Workshop on the Life and Work of Sir George Biddell Airy
A guest post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent On 29 June 2018, Cambridge University Library will host a workshop on the life and […]
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Dirt, Dust and Dodgy Joists, or, Memoirs of a Determined Archivist
In the last few days I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion on Twitter about the alleged erasure of the role of the archivist and […]
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The J. H. Prynne Papers
A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]
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Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive: Framing the Letters Patent
By Fay Humphreys Granted by Henry VIII in 1534, the Letters Patent (UA Luard 162) gave the University of Cambridge the right to appoint […]
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LGBT History Month at the UL
During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges and other institutions across town and University to mark LGBT History Month, an annual […]
Continue reading »The Brooke Crutchley collection of letterpress printing
A guest post by Anna Crutchley Brooke Crutchley (1907–2003) was Printer to Cambridge University between 1946 and 1974 and an advocate of good book design […]
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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 […]
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