Spot the Difference!
A ‘guest blog’ by David Langley In 2010 the Library staged a fascinating exhibition – Under Covers: Documenting Spies – from its own collections and […]
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An Ottoman cosmography
The brown leather binding looks unremarkable enough, but within the Library’s rare books collection there is a volume, which once opened up, demonstrates a key […]
Continue reading »‘Picture This #4’—John Speed map of Cambridgeshire
The map of Cambridgeshire from the Library’s copy of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is the fourth image in the University’s […]
Continue reading »History of Cartography online
Since the first volume appeared in 1987 the University of Chicago’s History of Cartography series of monographs has become a standard and authoritative reference work […]
Continue reading »Mapping the origins of a masterpiece
Published 400 years ago, the first comprehensive atlas of Great Britain has been digitised by Cambridge University Library, home to one of only five surviving […]
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