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Surgeons at war: the Fairbank papers

Posted on 5 July 2016 by Special Collections

Sir (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank (1876-1961) and his son Thomas John Fairbank (1912-1998) were orthopaedic surgeons and each saw service with the Royal Army Medical […]

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Collecting Brexit

Posted on 1 July 2016 by William Hale

In 1915, Francis Jenkinson placed an advertisement in the Cambridge Magazine appealing for material relating to the unfolding war, adding “Such flying pieces as those […]

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A serendipitous Riddell: discovered by chance in the UL’s manuscripts collection

Posted on 27 June 2016 by Special Collections

I have been researching the history and men of the Cambridgeshire Regiment for over twenty years now and the Library has been an invaluable source […]

Proof of a Cambridge degree, ancient and modern

Posted on 21 June 2016 by Jacky Cox

Undergraduates flushed with success in final examinations are about to be admitted to their degrees in a ceremony in the Senate House called General Admission. […]

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Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde

Posted on 8 June 2016 by Frank

James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]

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Manuscripts Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane

Posted on 4 May 2016 by Frank

In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]

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John Fisher (ca 1469-1535), martyr (and archivist)

Posted on 27 April 2016 by Jacky Cox

John Fisher’s principled opposition to Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon resulted in his conviction for treason and execution in 1535. Everyone remembers the […]

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Image of the Month

Posted on 6 April 2016 by Frank

The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for April. It can be viewed on their website here.

Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library

Posted on 8 March 2016 by Special Collections

Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]

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Image of the Month

Posted on 2 March 2016 by Frank

The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for March. It can be found on their webpage.