Cambridge connections: Trinity Hall and the University Library
About sixty years before the University had its own purpose-built library, William Bateman (Bishop of Norwich) founded Trinity Hall in Cambridge. It remains one of […]
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Strange goings-on and mysterious occurrences have been reported as taking place in the drawing room of Leckhampton House in the university town of Cambridge. Loud rappings […]
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Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2016
Entries are open for the 2016 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections. The Prize […]
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Gordon Duff Prize 2016
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 […]
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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 […]
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Conservation Challenges posed by the Changi Archive
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 […]
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‘A day of great triumph’ – the Lord Mayor’s Show at 800
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 […]
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The Red Book of Thorney: A Cartulary and its Conservation
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, […]
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Changi civilian internment digitisation project
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 […]
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Notness : the launch
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 […]
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