Anniversaries – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

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

Reformation lives

Posted on 1 November 2016 by Liam Sims

One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]

Anniversaries, Bible Society, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

Capability Brown at 300

Posted on 5 September 2016 by John Wells

A guest post by Katy Layton-Jones, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Baptised three hundred years ago, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–1783) remains one of […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions

The Great Fire of London

Posted on 2 September 2016 by Liam Sims

On this day 350 years ago – 2nd September 1666 – began the Great Fire of London, which burned for three days, consuming 13,000 houses, […]

Anniversaries, Rare Books, Special Collections

“The beauty of expression”: M.R. James and the First World War Memorial Scroll

Posted on 4 August 2016 by Special Collections

The War Reserve collection in the University Library, initiated by Librarian Francis Jenkinson, contains a wealth of interesting things for the military researcher, ranging from […]

Anniversaries, Rare Books

Poems and Ballads at 150

Posted on 20 July 2016 by Special Collections

This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (1866) which appalled Victorian readers with its anti-authoritarianism, republicanism […]

Anniversaries, Events, Exhibitions, Poetry

Live tweeting the first day of the Somme from the diary of Siegfried Sassoon

Posted on 7 July 2016 by Special Collections

The diaries of Siegfried Sassoon which are held in Department of Manuscripts and Archives are a unique and fascinating resource for both historians and literary […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts