Cambridge University Library 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

Skipping on Parker's Piece (MS Add. 7515)

Cambridgeshire customs on camera

Posted on 7 October 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Photographs, Special Collections

His Royal Favour: the Books that Built the Library

Posted on 1 October 2015 by Emily Dourish

The University Library’s latest exhibition looks in detail at the formation and arrival in Cambridge of the Royal Library, a collection that has been at […]

Collectors and collecting, Digital Resources, Exhibitions, Library history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rupert Brooke: 100 years on

Posted on 28 September 2015 by Liam Sims

The latest exhibition to occupy the Library’s Entrance Hall cases concerns Rupert Brooke, who died a century ago this year (23 April 1915) and was […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

‘It’s all in a day’s work’: the Royal Greenwich Observatory Audio-Visual Collection, Stories of Observatory Life

Posted on 21 September 2015 by Dr Emma Saunders

For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. Observing distant stars, recording sunspots, […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Special Collections