New Munby Fellow for 2021-22
We are delighted to introduce the new Munby Fellow for 2021-22, Dr Heather Wolfe, who will be working on a research project on ‘Decoding early […]
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Turning over a new leaf: Fasciculing fragile letters and plant specimens in the Darwin Archive
The Darwin Archive contains a wide variety of loose sheet papers, often in diverse formats and frequently found in specific combinations. Letters are kept together […]
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James Rendel Harris: a Bible scholar on a quest for manuscripts
The later decades of the nineteenth century witnessed new directions being forged in the study of biblical texts, as new manuscript discoveries stimulated advances in […]
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Archives in the round: joining up the records of Biochemistry
Puzzling over an unidentified collection of 1920s printer’s blocks, intriguing artwork for something, has emphasised again the connections between the official records of the University and personal papers of its scientists. For the fullest picture of an institution or an individual, look both ways. The blocks, part of transfer […]
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‘Ruby, who worked with Prof Hopkins’: papers of Ruby Leader, Animal Technician in the Department of Biochemistry
Biochemistry is particularly strongly represented in the University Library’s modern science archive holdings. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds the personal paper collections of a number […]
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Richard Relhan Revealed: a guest post by Alexandra Saunders, John Pickles and Alison Taylor
Richard Relhan’s topographical drawings, with a date range of 1797-1838, are an expressive record of buildings and the countryside in a period immediately preceding immense […]
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Conservation of three volumes in the Cambridge University Press Archive
Imagine having to file your financial year-end invoices in one of these mammoth volumes! The Cambridge University Press Archive contains three oversize ‘stationery’ bindings that […]
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Among the recently catalogued collections of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) Archives are 7 archival boxes containing notebooks and glass plates originally belonging to British […]
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New voice from women’s internment camps, Singapore, 1943-1945
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is extremely grateful to our colleagues at The Salvation Army Archives, Canada and Bermuda Territory, for helping to enrich our […]
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Conservation Conversations: Making Models
As part of the Alumni Festival, all are welcome to join the Conservation team at the University Library as they discuss and demonstrate the making […]
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