Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible

Posted on 1 May 2017 by James Freeman

It is rare that archival research makes the national news. Jeffrey Alan Miller’s identification of a draft of a portion of the King James Bible […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Sidney Sussex College

Frederick George Dunnett 1896 – 24 April 1917

Posted on 24 April 2017 by Special Collections

On 24 April 1917, one hundred years ago today, Private Frederick George Dunnett of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment and a member of University Library staff […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge University history

Extract from Maps.Ms.Plans.R.c.1 "Map of the Maingnyaung region" ca. 1860

Mapping the Maps – a guest post from Natasha Pairaudeau

Posted on 18 April 2017 by Anne Taylor

Imagine maps as big as bedsheets, and then imagine the sheets big enough for beds made wide enough to sleep extended families. Only such a […]

Burma, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Maps, South Asian, Special Collections

Changing : the launch

Posted on 8 April 2017 by John Wells

On Thursday 11 May at 5.30 p.m., in the Milstein Seminar Rooms in Cambridge University Library, the poet Richard Berengarten will give a reading and […]

Events, Poetry

Bringing a hidden collection to light

Posted on 7 April 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Anna Johnson Cambridge University Library may not often be thought of as a significant repository for papyri, but we do have a moderately […]

Conservation, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Papyrus, Special Collections

A day in the life of an Archives Trainee

Posted on 4 April 2017 by Mary Scott

Being an Archives Trainee at Cambridge University Library is a unique experience. From battling boxes in the stacks, donned in winter woollies (it can be […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Collection Care

Jane Austen: letters and readers

Posted on 29 March 2017 by John Wells

In the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall brings together the three letters written by Austen held in […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

South African War photographs, 1901-02

Posted on 28 March 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have published a detailed catalogue description for a fascinating album of photographs taken during the South African War (1899-1902), Y3058H. […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

A conference on conserving, curating and creating access to papyri in Cambridge

Posted on 15 March 2017 by Yasmin

The Third Papyrus Curatorial and Conservations Meeting. Following the first two successful meetings at the British Museum, this meeting will take place on 29–30 June […]

Papyrus

Egypt on a tourist’s mind

Posted on 7 March 2017 by Special Collections

A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections