John Fisher (ca 1469-1535), martyr (and archivist)
John Fisher’s principled opposition to Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon resulted in his conviction for treason and execution in 1535. Everyone remembers the […]
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Is this the day, of all the days?
It is widely accepted that Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, the day of his 52nd birthday. Today, a drop-in event (2:00 to 4:00 pm) […]
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Performing lost songs
Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]
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Charlotte Bronte’s prayer book
We celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, 21 April 1816, with a look at a special copy of the Book of Common Prayer and […]
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The irresistible search for hidden Scriptures
Eighty years ago in 1936 Cambridge University Library received a manuscript, bequeathed by its owner Agnes Smith Lewis at her death in 1926. It is […]
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Martin Bucer and the Reformation in Cambridge
Between 17th and 19th March, a number of Cambridge librarians – along with a host of academics – spent a happy time in the Parker […]
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Glimpses of early Siam and Burma [Thailand and Myanmar]
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just created an electronic catalogue for one of its largest and most significant manuscript collections: the papers of the […]
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The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for April. It can be viewed on their website here.
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The return of Mary Jones’ Bible to Bala
The Mary Jones Bible returned to Bala, Wales, on 18 March and was on show to the public until 20 March. The Bible left Bala […]
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New Old Books: March 2016
Books added to the collections of the Rare Books Department this month include a French almanac, a further addition to our holdings of Enlightenment texts, […]
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