Anniversaries – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Mesmerised!

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Liam Sims

Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Library history, Special Collections

‘Particles of light’: the legacy of Henry Bradshaw

Posted on 7 November 2017 by Jill Whitelock

A conference celebrating 150 years since Henry Bradshaw’s appointment as University Librarian at Cambridge 4 December 2017 Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library ‘Books are to […]

Anniversaries, Events, Library history

Arthur Schnitzler digital: new resources. Guest post by Andrew Webber

Posted on 30 October 2017 by Special Collections

The leading Austrian Modernist writer, Arthur Schnitzler, died on 21 October 1931. Marking the anniversary of the author’s death, the digital portal constructed for the […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Digital Resources, German

Student, soldier and author: Basil Godfrey Quin MC.

Posted on 2 September 2017 by Special Collections

The Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres was fought one hundred years ago between July and November 1917. One of the regiments involved was the […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, In the spotlight, Library history

Frederick George Dunnett 1896 – 24 April 1917

Posted on 24 April 2017 by Special Collections

On 24 April 1917, one hundred years ago today, Private Frederick George Dunnett of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment and a member of University Library staff […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge University history

Jane Austen: letters and readers

Posted on 29 March 2017 by John Wells

In the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall brings together the three letters written by Austen held in […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Robert Bloomfield, ‘the first of rural bards’

Posted on 12 December 2016 by John Wells

The poet Robert Bloomfield, author of The farmer’s boy, was born in Suffolk two hundred and fifty years ago, in December 1766. Of humble parentage, […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Rare Books

Gustave David (1860–1936): the Cambridge bookseller

Posted on 20 November 2016 by Liam Sims

Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections