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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 […]

Archives, Manuscripts Image of the Month, Photographs

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 […]

600th anniversary, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Cambridge University Archives, Exhibitions, Library history

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. […]

600th anniversary, Archives, Digital Resources, Events, Exhibitions, Historical Printing, Library history, Manuscripts, Maps, Medicine, Music, Science, Special Collections

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.

The first slide rule: a discovery in the Macclesfield Collection

Posted on 19 February 2016 by Special Collections

Guest post by Boris Jardine. Slide rules dominated the practice of mathematics from their invention in reign of King Charles I to their sudden, electronic-calculator […]

Archives, Science

Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s birthday

Posted on 12 February 2016 by Special Collections

The Darwin Correspondence Project is celebrating ‘Darwin Day’ today (12th February) with a new website helping us to find out more about the life and […]

Archives, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digital Resources

ADC Theatre Archive

Posted on 21 January 2016 by Special Collections

A project to catalogue the archive of the ADC Theatre has recently been completed and the catalogue is now available online. The ADC Theatre is […]

Archives, New on Janus

Crowd-sourcing the archives of women’s rowing

Posted on 14 January 2016 by Jacky Cox

Question: how do you write the history of Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club when the records in the club’s possession are scanty for the early […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, New on Janus

Posted on 27 November 2015 by Frank

Strange goings-on and mysterious occurrences have been reported as taking place in the drawing room of Leckhampton House in the university town of Cambridge. Loud rappings […]

Archives, New on Janus

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