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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Augusta de Wit and the Genizah hoard
The discovery of the Cairo Genizah manuscript fragments in the synagogue in Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, has already been well documented. In January 1897, Solomon Schechter, […]
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Cutting up the archive: reflections on the CVC fellowship
In October 2023, CVC fellows Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla ran a workshop at Cambridge University Library (CUL) entitled ‘Putting our resources to work: transforming […]
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Archive and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month – the cloud camera
Robert (Robin) Hill was born in 1899. After reading natural sciences, and specializing in chemistry, at Cambridge, he had a successful career in biochemistry, becoming […]
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Erpenius’ ‘Coptic’ manuscript at Cambridge University Library
Since Thomas Erpenius’ death in November 1624, a large number of scholars have been writing about the importance of his personal library which arrived at […]
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The historical notebooks of Dorothy Chadwick
Guest post by Elizabeth Grimshaw, former member of the department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, now a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University […]
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Culinary inspiration and dietary counsel from the Curious Cures project
Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime?
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