Out of Disorder came Order!
The 24th April 2019 saw the culmination of a four-month project to move approximately 49,000 German maps from Cambridge University Library Map Department to the […]
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Medieval Palaeography Workshop Programme 2019
Every Easter Term, the University Library hosts the Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop.
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The literary papers of Humphrey Jennings
The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds two boxes of papers relating to the filmmaker, painter and writer Humphrey Jennings (1907-50), now catalogued as […]
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Care in the handling of books
A reminder of good practice by Henry Creswick (University Librarian 1949-67), courtesy of the University Archives:
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Family Fun: Manuscripts by Candlelight
Next Wednesday (17th April) sees the return of Manuscripts by Candlelight at the University Library. This event first took place as part of Twilight at the Museums […]
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A previously unrecorded sewing technique from the 12th Century.
Posted on 11/04/2019 by Jim Bloxam A new essay, by Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson, has been published in Suave Mechanicals: Essays in the History of […]
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Discoveries in the reading rooms
Readers working with material in the University Library’s Special Collections reading rooms are accustomed to discovering new and exciting things every day, whether that be […]
Continue reading »Fit for a King: Designing a box for King Cetshwayo’s ostrich feather
The University Library’s collections are primarily books and archival paper materials, but within our stores lie a number of unusual treasures. These objects range from […]
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Challenging Challenger: The Fallout between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Society for Psychical Research
Post by Elizabeth Savage, PhD (Dunelm) “Do you conceive that a logical brain, a brain of the first order, needs to read and to study […]
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A new Archive Management System for Cambridge
There is a healthy tradition of collaboration among archives in Cambridge. Local archival repositories vary widely in size from large (like the University Library’s Archives […]
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