Dear Archivist: A Compendium of Enquiries
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 […]
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‘With a zeal and skill beyond praise’: the first woman to work at the University Library
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 […]
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‘A Trunk of Writings’: The Fate of Samuel Ward’s Papers
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. […]
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Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive
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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The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible
It is rare that archival research makes the national news. Jeffrey Alan Miller’s identification of a draft of a portion of the King James Bible […]
Continue reading »A day in the life of an Archives Trainee
Being an Archives Trainee at Cambridge University Library is a unique experience. From battling boxes in the stacks, donned in winter woollies (it can be […]
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Jane Austen: letters and readers
In the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall brings together the three letters written by Austen held in […]
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Egypt on a tourist’s mind
A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]
Continue reading »A Dramatic Archive
Since joining the Library team as Archives Trainee, I have been lucky enough to peer through a lot of windows into the University’s past. One […]
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Under the Microscope – Preliminary Investigations of the Changi Archive Conservation Research Project
You may have seen here that in May this year I was awarded a Research Bursary from the Wellcome Trust. The award means that I am […]
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