“I have just set a Hungarian rabbi at work…
…upon our Hebrew manuscripts” said Henry Bradshaw in June 1865. Bradshaw was Head of the manuscript collections in the University Library and was keen to […]
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Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean
by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]
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‘Truth-Untruth’: Brexit through letterpress
This post is by Alan Qualtrough, a letterpress artist, graphic designer and typographer based in Plymouth who met two of the Library’s staff at a […]
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A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair!
“You can learn about archives you may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]
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Rose Book Collecting Prize 2019
Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]
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Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day
The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]
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Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: a conference reflection
Venice showed itself at its most beautiful in late September when hosting a gathering of over 100 academics, librarians, members of the book trade and […]
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Steffens’ War
24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]
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Recognising books made in Cambridge: the Cambridge Bookbindings Project
This post is by Dr David Pearson, until 2017 Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation, who is currently engaged […]
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Virtual exhibition: Royal Commonwealth Society’s 150th anniversary
This year the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library is celebrating two very significant anniversaries: 150 years since the society’s formation in 1868 […]
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