Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Keeping Our Cool: Environmental Monitoring at the Library

Posted on 5 July 2018 by CUL Conservation

What do you consider lovely, comfortable weather? Maybe you’re picturing a clear day with temperatures in the mid-twenties, a nice cool breeze coming in, and […]

Collection Care, Conservation

Australian birds

Posted on 5 July 2018 by John C.

The beauty and diversity of Australia’s birds are vividly captured in one of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s most colourful collections of artwork (RCMS 278/7). […]

Royal Commonwealth Society

Edward Gwynn and his bindings

Posted on 4 July 2018 by Liam Sims

In 2009 a history of the British Library was published with the title ‘Libraries within the Library’, a phrase which might just as easily be […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Library history, Special Collections

Digitisation of Sukkur Bridge photograph album

Posted on 8 June 2018 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library’s recent purchase at auction of a splendid presentation album of photographs (Y30244A), celebrating the opening of the Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian

Start them young: close encounters with movable books

Posted on 8 June 2018 by Emily Dourish

As Special Collections curators and subject specialists we’re all used to hosting visits to the University Library for academics, students and members of the adult […]

Illustration, Rare Books

Reading Euclid at Cambridge

Posted on 4 June 2018 by Liam Sims

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Incunabula, Rare Books, Special Collections

Judicial Combat

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Frank

These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]

Manuscripts

Pembroke College’s Benefactors’ Book

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Special Collections

A guest post from Jonathan Nathan, who is studying for his PhD in History. He is investigating the circulation of underground atheist literature through pre-modern […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Pembroke College