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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“Here’s my photo diary of the impact of a small but incredibly destructive bug”: first transfers to the COVID-19 Collection
Documenting what we do, what we see and how we feel, the first donations have arrived for the University Library’s COVID-19 Collection. Launched in April 2020, this initiative seeks to document the disease’s impact on the […]
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Coping with isolation: Ernest Shackleton & the Cambridge University Press publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Given permission to depart in a telegram from the Admiralty with the single word ‘Proceed’, the Endurance sailed from Plymouth on 8 August 1914 to […]
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Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition
In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]
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Rank rogues and errant thieves: slander and defamation in the Isle of Ely
… ‘base beggarly rogue’, ‘false perjurer’, ‘knave and rascal’, ‘errant thief’, ‘pick-pocket, cheating whore and cut-purse’, ‘forsworn man’, ‘witch’, ‘night-walker’, ‘rank rogue’ … At first glance the insults listed above may have been lifted directly from one of Shakespeare’s […]
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