The 2014-15 programme of the Friends of the University Library gets underway on Wednesday, October 14th at 5:30 pm with a talk by Mark Doran […]
Continue reading »
Guest post by Stephen Roberts. The Eastern Counties Folklore Society was established at a meeting held in Cambridge on 18 November 1932, to investigate, collect […]
Continue reading »
For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. Observing distant stars, recording sunspots, […]
Continue reading »
A project is under way in the University Archives to sort, clean and list the early student files of the Board of Graduate Studies or […]
Continue reading »
This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]
Continue reading »
Over the last five years the Manuscripts department has been running a retrospective cataloguing project with the aim of creating a comprehensive on-line catalogue for […]
Continue reading »
The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have created an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, the archives of the railway engineer Hugh Murton Le Fleming. A […]
Continue reading »
The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections in Cambridge University Library contain a very attractive collection of nineteenth century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an on-line catalogue for one of its earliest manuscript collections, the archives of the colonial administrator Sir […]
Continue reading »With Mixed Pickle and Condiments, The Sheila and Her Dog, Stretched Drawers, Rabbit’s Ears. These are a few of the more bizarre-sounding student societies whose […]
Continue reading »