Alan Howard and the Howard Foundation
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]
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Thomas Wort, ‘leech’, and his book of remedies
This post comes as part of our series from the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project, courtesy of Project Conservator Marina Pelissari and Project Cataloguer Clarck Drieshen.
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Henry Bradshaw’s near miss
As archivists, we spend many hours looking through much material in personal papers collections relating to the often mundane activities of day to day life; […]
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The world turned upside down: popular literature in eighteenth-century Orléans
The University Library has recently acquired, with the generous support of the Friends of the National Libraries, a unique piece of eighteenth-century satirical French printing […]
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A Remnant from the Ruined City of Akhsikath, Uzbekistan: Another Rare Persianate Manuscript Belonging to Erpenius
As I have previously discussed,[1] Cambridge University Library (henceforth: CUL) has housed the main part of the personal library of the famous Dutch Orientalist, Thomas […]
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John Baskerville’s ‘Small Performances’ project launch
This week the University Library was thrilled to host the launch of the AHRC-funded project “Small performances”: investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage […]
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Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries: Project Update
The Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been running since May 2022 and, as our two-year anniversary appears on the horizon, we thought followers […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month – Portraits of Persons at Different Times of Their Lives (or Deaths)
In 1898 the children of the Keynes and Glazebrook families produced an illustrated journal called The Gem. It included poems, stories, quizzes, sketches and paintings […]
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The Blue Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah: A Rare Copy of a Malay Folk Story at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Note: My thanks go to Dr H. C. Carron, Dr Amy Leahy and Professor Barry Windeatt of Emmanuel College Library, University of Cambridge, for allowing […]
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Tributes to two brothers
Guest post by Jonathan Spain, former member of the Manuscripts Department, now a volunteer cataloguer. The Library’s Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has issued […]
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