Anniversaries – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The original red-eye: Alcock and Brown across the Atlantic

Posted on 28 May 2019 by John Wells

Almost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Sassoon's journal entry for Armistice Day

Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day

Posted on 11 November 2018 by John Wells

The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]

Anniversaries, Manuscripts, Poetry

Steffens’ War

Posted on 5 November 2018 by Frank

24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Manuscripts

Virtual exhibition: Royal Commonwealth Society’s 150th anniversary

Posted on 18 October 2018 by John C.

This year the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library is celebrating two very significant anniversaries: 150 years since the society’s formation in 1868 […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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

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