From Cereal Box to Archive Box
In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]
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Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives
A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]
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Tales of India written for my grandchildren
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department recently has been donated a fascinating personal memoir, ‘Tales of India written for my grandchildren’ (RCMS 400). Its author was […]
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New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is thrilled to announce that it has purchased at auction two items which reinforce its existing strengths in the history […]
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Papers of Sir Peter Scott
The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts have completed a box list of a recent addition to the papers of Peter Scott, the artist, conservationist […]
Continue reading »Max Aub: a Spanish intellectual in Mexico
Researchers of the life and work of Max Aub (Paris, 1903 – Mexico City, 1972) will be pleased to hear about a recent donation from […]
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The original red-eye: Alcock and Brown across the Atlantic
Almost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We’ve been working on costs and a business model for […]
Continue reading »Archival revolution: how born-digital archives are changing the way we do research
On Tuesday 28 May, at 2.15 p.m., Lise Jaillant will give a talk in the Milstein Room, University Library, West Road, on “Archival revolution: how […]
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Manuscripts from the Gayer-Anderson brothers
One of the most iconic items in the British Museum’s Egyptology collection is the bronze cat figurine commonly known as the ‘Gayer-Anderson cat’. It is […]
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