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‘Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance’: an 1825 proposal of marriage

Posted on 9 April 2020 by Sian Collins

One of the things that I love most about archives is their ability to bring us closer to those who lived in the past. They […]

Archives, Special Collections, women

Archive Management System update

Posted on 2 April 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) project for March 2020. The last few weeks have been a period of extremely rapid […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Special Collections

An earthen pot full of bones: true crime in Sutton

Posted on 17 March 2020 by Sally Kent

An extraordinary set of sworn testimonies in the assize files for the Isle of Ely shed light on the curious case of a missing child. […]

Archives, Ely assizes, Special Collections, Uncategorized

Archive Management System update

Posted on 20 February 2020 by Liam Sims

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. We have been making great progress since the last Archive Management System update […]

Archives, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 24 January 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. There are many significant milestones for the AMS project coming this year and […]

A letter of apology to Thomas Young

Posted on 14 January 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

‘I am sorry I should have detained the proof longer than I intended, as the stone was just finished on Tuesday, and taken to Ackermann’s […]

Archives, Near and Middle Eastern, Science, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 17 December 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project Migration A preliminary set of catalogues has been successfully migrated from the UL […]

Archive Management System update

Posted on 29 November 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project at the University Library. It has been a very busy […]

Archives, Special Collections

Women in the theatre at Cambridge

Posted on 28 October 2019 by Special Collections

Post by Emily Perdue A recently catalogued item in Special Collections sheds some light on the role of women in Cambridge theatre. MS Additional 9610, […]

Archives, Photographs

M. R. James and the ghosts of the old University Library

Posted on 22 October 2019 by Jill Whitelock

‘Wisdom will not expect the men of my generation or of several later ones to leave without a sore pang of regret the old home […]

Archives, Library history

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