Wilfred Court’s slide collection now digitised
Over 2,200 colour slides documenting the work and travels of the architect Wilfred Court in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon in the 1950s […]
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A crowd’s-eye view: the 1897 Cambridge vote for women’s degrees
Sea of straw hats outside the railings. Crackers &c. & then bags of flour, confetti &c. came showering down wind. Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian On […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month – Book storage tunnels under the Senate House lawn
By the time the decision was taken in March 1921 to build an entirely new home for the University Library west of the river, several […]
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Alan Howard and the Howard Foundation
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]
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Cutting up the archive: reflections on the CVC fellowship
In October 2023, CVC fellows Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla ran a workshop at Cambridge University Library (CUL) entitled ‘Putting our resources to work: transforming […]
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Archive and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month – the cloud camera
Robert (Robin) Hill was born in 1899. After reading natural sciences, and specializing in chemistry, at Cambridge, he had a successful career in biochemistry, becoming […]
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New additions to the RCS archive catalogue
16 new collections have been added to the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) archive catalogue over the past year. These range from single photograph albums and […]
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‘Nothing more important for the linking of the sciences and humanities’: archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Excavated from a basement store last December, archives from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) are now catalogued as part of the […]
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Oppenheimer and the poisoned apple
This summer’s blockbuster, Oppenheimer, begins the chronological recounting of the physicist’s life in Cambridge. The recent Harvard graduate, later dubbed the ‘father of the atomic […]
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The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium
‘The care of books is a difficult business’, remarked Francis Jenkinson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Library Association in 1905 […]
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