A Mycological Book Collection
Nathan Smith, runner-up in the 2019-20 Rose Book Collecting Prize, writes about his collection of books on fungi. For information on entering the 2020-21 Rose […]
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A Georgian Music Book
This guest post is by Francis Knights, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, whose research interests include musical history, instruments and performance practice from the 16th to […]
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Death, scandal and a disputed election
To write of a disputed election at this moment in time may be thought to invite controversy, to tempt fate, or at least to be […]
Continue reading »The Fascinating History of the ‘Buchanan Bible’ or MSS Oo. 1.1-2
Research and text by Jeremy Penner In late Antiquity as today, the importance of the written word for the production and dissemination of knowledge cannot […]
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Miss Lucy Nevile’s Letter of 1902: the acquisition of pre-modern Korean Christian texts in the University Library
This guest post is by Ria Roy, a PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Ria Roy is a historian of modern […]
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Introduction to the Ely assize files
A new tranche of assize court records has recently been added to the online catalogue, ArchiveSearch, the new Cambridge-wide archive management system. Following the completion of cataloguing of the series […]
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Nineteenth-century Australian pamphlets
Work to discover the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets has focused recently upon Australia. We are delighted to announce that more […]
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Archive Management System Project update: September 2020
This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project for September. Migrations This month the AMS project achieved a significant milestone when […]
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A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085
This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 2.
Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. In this blogpost we will be sharing our next steps of the creation of the Medieval […]
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