Maps – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Where have all the bus maps gone? – a guest blog by John Davies

Posted on 21 August 2026 by Anne Taylor

Where have all the bus maps gone? Well, nearly 1,000 bus maps, a collection accumulated by John Davies over many years (with some inherited from […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, Map Department, Maps, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Harvesting Resources – Fruit Farming in the Cam Valley: sources at the UL. Guest post by Jonathan Spain

Posted on 16 December 2021 by Anne Taylor

Researchers and authors will use a variety of resources and consult items across the University Library collections and beyond. Although library and archive staff may […]

Map Department, Maps, Rare Books, Special Collections

Cambridge University Library’s Map Department in Lockdown

Posted on 8 September 2020 by Anne Taylor

120 days in Lockdown and counting … Read a Blog Post commissioned by the Cambridge Library Group describing what Cambridge University Library Map Department staff have […]

Map Department, Maps, Special Collections

A Journey in Isolation: A Postcard Travelogue

Posted on 27 April 2020 by Ian Pittock

“Today’s journey with the Map Department’s postcard collection…” or words to this effect have been a welcome companion as I’ve Tweeted my progress through several […]

Architecture, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Maps, Photographs, Special Collections, Travel, Uncategorized

All Aboard! Railway Maps, Plans, Diagrams and Documents in Cambridge University Library Map Department

Posted on 4 October 2019 by Anne Taylor

Cambridge University Library Map Department has amassed a huge, and rather miscellaneous, collection of maps, plans, diagrams and documents compiled by various pre-British Railways rail […]

Architecture, Archives, Engineering, Manuscripts, Maps, Railways

The Installation of Prince Albert at Cambridge

Posted on 5 July 2019 by Ian Pittock

The Map Department contains many views, which offer great insight into the living experiences, events and environment of the time and place shown. While recently […]

Anniversaries, Maps, Special Collections

From Cereal Box to Archive Box

Posted on 28 June 2019 by Anne Taylor

In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Maps, New on Janus

Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives

Posted on 24 June 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Maps, Rare Books, Travel

Out of Disorder came Order!

Posted on 1 May 2019 by Anne Taylor

The 24th April 2019 saw the culmination of a four-month project to move approximately 49,000 German maps from Cambridge University Library Map Department to the […]

Maps, Recent acquisitions