Eighty years of bad jokes: the UL’s rag mag collection
The practice of holding “rag weeks” or “rag days” in Universities to raise money for good causes seems to have started in the 1920s. In […]
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Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions
This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.
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Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century Cairo
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts […]
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Becoming Vice-Chancellor …
Professor Deborah Prentice, the new Vice-Chancellor, assumes the duties of office on 1st July and will be formally admitted at a Congregation of the Regent […]
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Henry Bradshaw: an Irish book collector?
This post is by Dr Nora Moroney, Munby Fellow for 2022-23. Nora is working on the book collection of Henry Bradshaw (University Librarian 1867-86) at […]
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Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission
Post by Chloe Rushovich, Engagement and Communities Officer, RCS Carnegie Project As a part of a shared digital curation project, Creating New Connections, Cambridge University […]
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Two Decades of Digital Photography in the Library: Evolution of Practice and Technology
Post by Maciej M. Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, and Raffaella Losito, Photographer When photographers are working on the digitisation of special collections, they […]
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The Oldest Javanese Islamic Text at Cambridge University Library
This post is co-written by Dr Majid Daneshgar (Munby Fellow, CUL) & Prof. Edwin Wieringa (Professor of Indonesian Philology and Islamic Studies, University of Cologne, […]
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Transtemporal at the University Library
This guest post is by Sana Ginwalla, an Indian-Zambian photographer and curator, founder and director of Zambia Belonging – a counter-archive of photographs which explore […]
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A glimpse into late Victorian rural education in the Fens
By Kevin Roberts, Archivist (Department of Archives & Modern Manuscripts) The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently purchased and catalogued the logbooks of […]
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