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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Becoming Vice-Chancellor …
Professor Deborah Prentice, the new Vice-Chancellor, assumes the duties of office on 1st July and will be formally admitted at a Congregation of the Regent […]
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Transtemporal at the University Library
This guest post is by Sana Ginwalla, an Indian-Zambian photographer and curator, founder and director of Zambia Belonging – a counter-archive of photographs which explore […]
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A glimpse into late Victorian rural education in the Fens
By Kevin Roberts, Archivist (Department of Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently purchased and catalogued the logbooks of […]
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The Paget family of East Anglia
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) Last year, the University Library acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as […]
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