Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California
Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]
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Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887
To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]
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Caribbean photographs
The most recent release of Royal Commonwealth Society photographs on Cambridge Digital Library takes us to the Caribbean. We’re delighted that virtually all Commonwealth members […]
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Conflicting Chronologies: A New Exhibition at the Whipple Library
A guest post by Meira Gold, PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her research concerns the history of Victorian Egyptology […]
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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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