Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Football in Burma
In the papers of Sir James George Scott there are a few photographs, including one of a football team featuring a mix of Burmese and […]
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‘The Central Science’: records of the Chemistry Department added to the University Archives
A knowledge of molecular structures and properties is crucial in our understanding of large parts of science, from semiconductors to proteins and from the composition […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: William Thomson’s Submarine Cable
This summer marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907). Lord Kelvin gave his name, the ‘kelvin’, to the […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Edward Burne Jones’ Caricature
Amongst the correspondence and papers of the Baldwin, Kipling, Burne-Jones, Poynter, and Macdonald families (MS Add.9974) can be found a folder of drawings and sketches […]
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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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