A Letter from Sir Mansfield Cumming to ‘My dear Hoare’
This letter from the first director of what was to become the Secret Intelligence Service (better known as MI6) Sir Mansfield Cumming, to his head […]
Continue reading »This letter from the first director of what was to become the Secret Intelligence Service (better known as MI6) Sir Mansfield Cumming, to his head […]
Continue reading »by Emma Nichols and Mary French The conservation of the WWII Changi civilian internment camp archives is being undertaken by two conservators, Emma Nichols and Mary […]
Continue reading »On Saturday 14 November the annual spectacle of the Lord Mayor’s Show, which started life eight centuries ago in the year of Magna Carta, will […]
Continue reading »The cartulary of Thorney Abbey, known as the Red Book of Thorney, is a large 2-volume work begun in the early years of the fourteenth century, […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is delighted to announce that work has begun on its project to conserve and digitize the archives of two Second […]
Continue reading »On Wednesday 11 November, in the Milstein Seminar Rooms in Cambridge University Library, at 5.30 p.m., the poet Richard Berengarten will give a reading to mark […]
Continue reading »Since the 1970s, records from Cambridge University Press have been transferred from offices in the Pitt Building on Trumpington Street and the Edinburgh Building and […]
Continue reading »This year the University Library celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of the acquisition of the Royal Library; this gift from King George I brought to […]
Continue reading »The 2014-15 programme of the Friends of the University Library gets underway on Wednesday, October 14th at 5:30 pm with a talk by Mark Doran […]
Continue reading »Guest post by Stephen Roberts. The Eastern Counties Folklore Society was established at a meeting held in Cambridge on 18 November 1932, to investigate, collect […]
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