The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)
175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]
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From Spare Room to Reading Room: the journey of an archive collection
As the first section of the Spitting Image collection is about to be added to our new on-line catalogue, I thought it might be of […]
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An epic from a tiger’s library
Among the many beautiful and fascinating manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection is one particularly magnificent copy of the famous Persian epic poem, the Shāhnāma or […]
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Archive Management System project update: October-November 2020
This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. It has been a busy couple of months for the AMS project and […]
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Pamphlets of nineteenth-century India
Late nineteenth-century British India forms the latest subject of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s work to discover its collection of rare pamphlets and periodical articles. […]
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A Mycological Book Collection
Nathan Smith, runner-up in the 2019-20 Rose Book Collecting Prize, writes about his collection of books on fungi. For information on entering the 2020-21 Rose […]
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A Georgian Music Book
This guest post is by Francis Knights, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, whose research interests include musical history, instruments and performance practice from the 16th to […]
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Death, scandal and a disputed election
To write of a disputed election at this moment in time may be thought to invite controversy, to tempt fate, or at least to be […]
Continue reading »The Fascinating History of the ‘Buchanan Bible’ or MSS Oo. 1.1-2
Research and text by Jeremy Penner In late Antiquity as today, the importance of the written word for the production and dissemination of knowledge cannot […]
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Miss Lucy Nevile’s Letter of 1902: the acquisition of pre-modern Korean Christian texts in the University Library
This guest post is by Ria Roy, a PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Ria Roy is a historian of modern […]
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