Universal Joy: The Grand Festival at Yarmouth, 19 April 1814
A post by Samantha Evans (Darwin Correspondence Project). The library recently acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as a gift from Sir […]
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Harvesting Resources – Fruit Farming in the Cam Valley: sources at the UL. Guest post by Jonathan Spain
Researchers and authors will use a variety of resources and consult items across the University Library collections and beyond. Although library and archive staff may […]
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Long, long life and times of Cambridge carrier Thomas Hobson (1544-1631) now online
If you think only staff and students appear in the University Archives, think again. Episodes in the life of Thomas Hobson, recorded in University court and other records, are now online in the digital library thanks to research funding generously […]
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Mould damage and suction wedges: conservation of felted paper in a bound iron-gall ink manuscript
Every conservation treatment we undertake at the University Library is done with the specifics of the collection item in mind. We consider the materiality of […]
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Read all about it! News in Georgian Cambridge
Among the items recently acquired by the Library (generously supported by the Friends of the UL) is a group of nearly fifty issues of an […]
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Rose Book Collecting Prize 2022
Entries are open for the 2021/22 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]
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The Pilgrims’ tale: the box that moved the Library
Eighty-seven years ago today, on 22 October 1934, George V arrived in Cambridge to open the new University Library. It was a day of huge […]
Continue reading »A New Perspective on the Cambridge Songs Manuscript
This guest post is by Dr Claire Burridge, who completed her PhD at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 2019 and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early […]
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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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