The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)
175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]
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From Spare Room to Reading Room: the journey of an archive collection
As the first section of the Spitting Image collection is about to be added to our new on-line catalogue, I thought it might be of […]
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Archive Management System project update: October-November 2020
This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. It has been a busy couple of months for the AMS project and […]
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Introduction to the Ely assize files
A new tranche of assize court records has recently been added to the online catalogue, ArchiveSearch, the new Cambridge-wide archive management system. Following the completion of cataloguing of the series […]
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Archive Management System Project update: September 2020
This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project for September. Migrations This month the AMS project achieved a significant milestone when […]
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‘The finest place in the University’: George Herbert (1593-1633), Public Orator
By Jacqueline Cox (Keeper of University Archives) 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the election of the poet George Herbert as Public Orator, a post he held until 1627. First created by university statute […]
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Archive Management System update
Migration The focus of the project remains migrating records from our legacy systems on to ArchivesSpace. Alongside ongoing work on the University Library’s AtoM data, […]
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Archive Management System project update
Migration The focus of our project remains migrating records from our legacy systems on to ArchivesSpace. Alongside work on the University Library’s AtoM data, this […]
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‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions
In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]
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Archive Management System update
Milestones and project extension The AMS project team achieved some key milestones in May. 262,872 records from five University Library Cantab databases were successfully migrated […]
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