Anniversaries – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

William Morris & the book

Posted on 11 June 2021 by Liam Sims

To mark the 125th anniversary of the publication of William Morris’s edition of the works of Chaucer, 26th June has been designated ‘International Kelmscott Press […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Historical Printing, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition

Posted on 13 May 2020 by Special Collections

In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Art in the Entrance Hall, Exhibitions

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

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

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