Cambridge University Library Special Collections

From Flat Plains to Ascending Hills: Conservation challenges for the Greenough Map

Posted on 1 March 2018 by CUL Conservation

By Lucy Cheng and Ngaio Vince-Dewerse Ever wanted to go behind the scenes to get a glimpse of how an exhibition is put together? The […]

Conservation, Exhibitions, Maps, Special Collections

Silks, pearls and manuscripts

Posted on 19 February 2018 by Catherine Ansorge

On the wall of the Library’s fourth floor of landing hangs a portrait of a man dressed in a very fine silk or satin doublet […]

Cambridge University history, Collectors and collecting, librarians, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Talk on the Liberation Collection, 22nd February

Posted on 14 February 2018 by Special Collections

On Thursday 22nd February Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey will give a talk to the Cambridge Bibliographical Society on ‘The power of the image in liberated France, […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Events, Illustration, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

The Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages

Posted on 24 January 2018 by James Freeman

A guest post from Johanna Jebe, Maximilian Nix, Luise Nöllemeyer, Bastiaan Waagmeester and Elena Ziegler, PhD students from the University of Tübingen.

Manuscripts

The Alfred Hugh Fisher Photographic Collection: Guest post by Sabrina Meneghini

Posted on 19 January 2018 by John C.

I am a PhD student at De Montfort University and last October I started my research The Legacy of Alfred Hugh Fisher and the […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Puzzling Scribes and Medieval Puzzles: Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Special Collections

To borrow a medieval book metaphor, CUL MS Gg.5.35 is a literary chest of treasures. This eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript contains a vast collection of Latin […]

Christian Works, Manuscripts

Photographs of India

Posted on 19 December 2017 by John C.

The latest release of photographs published on Cambridge Digital Library by the Royal Commonwealth Society department includes a large selection of historic prints of India, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Tower House, Kensington, London: perspective of the library (RIBA Collections)

Living the Gothic Revival: William Burges and Tower House

Posted on 18 December 2017 by Special Collections

William Burges (1827-81) identified himself throughout his prolific career as an ‘art-architect’1. Richard Popplewell Pullan (1825-88) was also an artist and architect, and like Burges […]

Architecture, Illustration, Photographs, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Thom Gunn revived and remembered, recorded

Posted on 14 December 2017 by John Wells

On 26 October Clive Wilmer launched his Faber edition of the Selected Poems of Thom Gunn in the University Library with a talk, refreshments and […]

Events, Poetry

New Royal Commonwealth Society Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides

Posted on 12 December 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just published on Cambridge Digital Library its second release of approximately 1,000 photographic glass plates and lantern slides, made […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society