Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Gordon Duff Prize 2016

Posted on 24 November 2015 by Special Collections

The Gordon Duff Prize is an annual competition open to members of the University of Cambridge for an essay on any one of the following […]

Gordon Duff Prize

A Letter from Sir Mansfield Cumming to ‘My dear Hoare’

Posted on 18 November 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Conservation Challenges posed by the Changi Archive

Posted on 16 November 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

‘A day of great triumph’ – the Lord Mayor’s Show at 800

Posted on 13 November 2015 by Liam Sims

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 […]

Rare Books, Special Collections

The Red Book of Thorney: A Cartulary and its Conservation

Posted on 6 November 2015 by Suzanne Paul

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, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Changi civilian internment digitisation project

Posted on 3 November 2015 by John C.

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 […]

Conservation, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Notness : the launch

Posted on 28 October 2015 by John Wells

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 […]

Friends of Cambridge University Library, Poetry

Volunteers experience ‘the magic and the meaning’ of the Cambridge University Press Archive

Posted on 26 October 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Conservation

From Andalusia to Cambridge

Posted on 19 October 2015 by Catherine Ansorge

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Hispanic, Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Friends event: ‘Melted into air, into thin air’: the radio scripts in the Deryck Cooke Archive

Posted on 13 October 2015 by William Hale

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 […]

Archives, Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library