Archive Management System: October update
Commitment to the project: confirmation needed We are working towards making the system available to partner organisations for data entry from January 2020 and will […]
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‘… infra Insulam Elien …’: cataloguing the assize court records of the Isle of Ely
A project to catalogue the records of the Isle of Ely assize courts is now in its fourth month. The project is generously funded by […]
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Help for all: alms-giving in 17th century Ely
A family history enquiry recently led me to a fascinating document in the Ely Dean and Chapter (EDC) collection in the Department of Archives and […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: It’s not all about pretty pixels
The Digital Content Unit (DCU) is the Library department responsible for the digitisation of special collections and the creation of other audio-visual content. The earliest […]
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A surprising find among a librarian’s letters
Post by Emily Perdue. While working in the Manuscripts department, I have had the opportunity to document a significant portion of Henry Bradshaw’s letters. Henry […]
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The Falkland Islands and South Georgia
The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just released four collections of photographs, artwork and maps relating to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on Cambridge […]
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Giovanni Belzoni and his ‘Book of breathings’
In Ancient Egyptian culture, matters relating to death and the afterlife were of great significance, as both the body and the soul were believed to […]
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Henry Compton’s Prayer Book, and John Wright’s Bible
Including as it does the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society as well as the collection of Arthur William Young, the University Library […]
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Turkish Cypriot political poster
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library department has just been donated a fascinating political poster, a rare survival from a turbulent time in the history of […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Conserving fragments
Since the introductory blogpost from conservation on The Polonsky Greek Manuscripts Project, we have made a lot of progress, having completed the survey of the […]
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