Manuscripts Department Image of the Month
The Manuscripts department have added a new image to their Image of the Month feature. Night Work at Greenwich Observatory, a hand-coloured print by William […]
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Ghana, a photographic history: images of Achimota College
Michael John Fuller worked at the front desk in the main Reading Room of Cambridge University Library from June 1992 until his sudden death in […]
Continue reading »Early Egyptian texts revealed; the papers of Sir Herbert Thompson
The University Library has recently acquired from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, an archive of the personal papers of Sir Herbert Thompson, […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Press at War
A fascinating post about the activities of Cambridge University Press during World War I has been published on the Press’s blog, fifteeneightyfour. It’s written by […]
Continue reading »Dobinson Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have published an on-line catalogue of a recent acquisition: the photographs and archives of Henry and Phyllis Dobinson. Henry was […]
Continue reading »Claude Sitwell Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is delighted to announce the acquisition of photographs and correspondence relating to the soldier and colonial administrator Lt. Col. Claude […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Sir John Glover
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library has recently published an on-line catalogue of the papers of Sir John Hawley Glover. A Royal […]
Continue reading »Friends talk: Cambridge poets and their papers
On Wednesday February 19, the Friends of Cambridge University Library are pleased to welcome poet and literary critic J.H. Prynne, together with teacher and author […]
Continue reading »Royal Colonial Institute Photographic Portraits
We are happy to report that a catalogue of the photographic portrait collection of the Royal Colonial Institute has recently been published on Janus, Cambridge […]
Continue reading »‘My dearest Siegfried’: The Egremont Sassoon Papers
Poet and author Siegfried Sassoon was a prolific letter writer and throughout his life maintained a close friendship and correspondence with his mother Georgiana Theresa […]
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