Christmas in Changi – The Result!
By Mary French and Emma Nichols Happy New Year from the Changi Conservators! Do you remember the Christmas Quiz from the Changi Guardian that we posed […]
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The first slide rule: a discovery in the Macclesfield Collection
Guest post by Boris Jardine. Slide rules dominated the practice of mathematics from their invention in reign of King Charles I to their sudden, electronic-calculator […]
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Malthus in Cambridge
On this day in 1766 – 250 years ago – was born Thomas Robert Malthus, for whom bells rang out in Cambridge yesterday. A scholar, cleric and […]
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Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s birthday
The Darwin Correspondence Project is celebrating ‘Darwin Day’ today (12th February) with a new website helping us to find out more about the life and […]
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A pipeline from heaven: eight centuries of Dominican books
In 2016 Dominican friars celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of their order. To mark the event, Cambridge University Library is hosting A pipeline […]
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On this day – The Kelmscott Beowulf
The tale of Beowulf [done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris and A.J. Wyatt.] was issued #OnThisDay in 1895. Cambridge […]
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New old books: January 2016
The Rare Books Department of the Library purchases over 200 printed books each year to enhance its historical collections. In the first of what we […]
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The Signal: the magazine of the brave
We have a new collection coming to Rare Books. It will take some time before it will be available to see in our reading room, […]
Continue reading »Friends of the University Library event: Archbishop Matthew Parker, patron of bookbinding
On Wednesday, 3rd February, Professor Mirjam Foot, Emeritus Professor of Library & Archive Studies at University College, London, will give a talk for the Friends […]
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ADC Theatre Archive
A project to catalogue the archive of the ADC Theatre has recently been completed and the catalogue is now available online. The ADC Theatre is […]
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