Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A census of sixteenth-century Venice

Posted on 31 January 2020 by Special Collections

Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]

Acquisitions, Italian, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 24 January 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. There are many significant milestones for the AMS project coming this year and […]

Greek Manuscripts Inside and Out: A Conservation Symposium and Workshop

Posted on 22 January 2020 by CUL Conservation

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg proudly presents Greek Manuscripts Inside and Out: A Conservation Symposium […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Addition to the Donald Bowen archive

Posted on 21 January 2020 by John C.

The former Art Curator of the Commonwealth Institute, Donald Bowen, passed away at the age of 101 on 25 July 2019. During his 25 years […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

A letter of apology to Thomas Young

Posted on 14 January 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

‘I am sorry I should have detained the proof longer than I intended, as the stone was just finished on Tuesday, and taken to Ackermann’s […]

Archives, Near and Middle Eastern, Science, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 17 December 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project Migration A preliminary set of catalogues has been successfully migrated from the UL […]

The Christmas Carol in Print

Posted on 13 December 2019 by William Hale

Every year, the University Library Carol Choir sings carols in the Library Entrance Hall for staff and readers (you can see our latest performance at […]

Christmas, Music

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 1

Posted on 12 December 2019 by CUL Conservation

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project has been a great support in encouraging continued professional development within the project. In this blog post we will […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Queen Mary’s South Asian tour scrapbooks, 1905-1906

Posted on 6 December 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has digitised a fascinating series of scrapbooks documenting the Royal Visit to India in 1905-06 by the Prince and Princess […]

Burma, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Railways, Royal Commonwealth Society

Archive Management System update

Posted on 29 November 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project at the University Library. It has been a very busy […]

Archives, Special Collections