Peter Pan in the Tower
Post by Dr Sarah Pyke, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2023/24, who is using the University Library’s legal deposit holdings (the Tower Collection) to survey illustrated […]
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A crowd’s-eye view: the 1897 Cambridge vote for women’s degrees
Sea of straw hats outside the railings. Crackers &c. & then bags of flour, confetti &c. came showering down wind. Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian On […]
Continue reading »‘By A Lady: A Hebrew-English dictionary by Abigail Lindo
By Tamar S. Drukker Among the many books left to the University of Cambridge by the late professor of Hebrew, Raphael Loewe (1919-2011) is a […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month – Book storage tunnels under the Senate House lawn
By the time the decision was taken in March 1921 to build an entirely new home for the University Library west of the river, several […]
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‘A valuable & extensive library’: Tim Munby’s book sales catalogues
The Library holds extensive collections of books on bibliography, including on the history of libraries and collecting. One of the primary sources for understanding the […]
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Alan Howard and the Howard Foundation
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]
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Thomas Wort, ‘leech’, and his book of remedies
This post comes as part of our series from the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project, courtesy of Project Conservator Marina Pelissari and Project Cataloguer Clarck Drieshen.
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Henry Bradshaw’s near miss
As archivists, we spend many hours looking through much material in personal papers collections relating to the often mundane activities of day to day life; […]
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The world turned upside down: popular literature in eighteenth-century Orléans
The University Library has recently acquired, with the generous support of the Friends of the National Libraries, a unique piece of eighteenth-century satirical French printing […]
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A Remnant from the Ruined City of Akhsikath, Uzbekistan: Another Rare Persianate Manuscript Belonging to Erpenius
As I have previously discussed,[1] Cambridge University Library (henceforth: CUL) has housed the main part of the personal library of the famous Dutch Orientalist, Thomas […]
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