Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Photographs of India

Posted on 19 December 2017 by John C.

The latest release of photographs published on Cambridge Digital Library by the Royal Commonwealth Society department includes a large selection of historic prints of India, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Tower House, Kensington, London: perspective of the library (RIBA Collections)

Living the Gothic Revival: William Burges and Tower House

Posted on 18 December 2017 by Special Collections

William Burges (1827-81) identified himself throughout his prolific career as an ‘art-architect’1. Richard Popplewell Pullan (1825-88) was also an artist and architect, and like Burges […]

Architecture, Illustration, Photographs, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Thom Gunn revived and remembered, recorded

Posted on 14 December 2017 by John Wells

On 26 October Clive Wilmer launched his Faber edition of the Selected Poems of Thom Gunn in the University Library with a talk, refreshments and […]

Events, Poetry

New Royal Commonwealth Society Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides

Posted on 12 December 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just published on Cambridge Digital Library its second release of approximately 1,000 photographic glass plates and lantern slides, made […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

The medieval University goes online

Posted on 11 December 2017 by Jacky Cox

The earliest surviving official set in Cambridge of the University’s medieval statutes is one of three treasures from the University Archives newly online as part […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history

Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney

Posted on 8 December 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Shaun Thompson The Red Book of Thorney is an early fourteenth-century cartulary originally from Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire. It was donated to Cambridge University […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collection Care, Conservation, Digital Resources, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts

MS-ADD-09852-00006-MS Add.9852/6/2, front free endpaper

New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’

Posted on 4 December 2017 by John Wells

The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2018

Posted on 29 November 2017 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2018 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections. The Prize […]

Collectors and collecting, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Reckoning the lost and found: tally sticks re-discovered at the UL

Posted on 21 November 2017 by Sian Collins

In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Gordon Duff Prize 2018

Posted on 16 November 2017 by Jill Whitelock

The Gordon Duff Prize is an annual competition for an essay on any one of the following subjects: bibliography, palaeography, typography, book-binding, book-illustration, or the […]

Gordon Duff Prize