Cambridge University Library Special Collections

‘World’s loneliest white man’

Posted on 28 August 2015 by John C.

This was the headline of an American newspaper describing the British planter William French (1897-1960), who had greeted an American Museum of Natural History South […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Board of Graduate Studies 1920-55

Posted on 6 August 2015 by Jacky Cox

A project is under way in the University Archives to sort, clean and list the early student files of the Board of Graduate Studies or […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, New on Janus

‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Liam Sims

In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Decorated paper wrappers in the University Library

Posted on 29 July 2015 by Liam Sims

There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]

Collectors and collecting, Italian, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Make and Create

Posted on 27 July 2015 by Special Collections

It’s not often that librarians get to work under canvas but this year the UL took part in the Cambridge University Museums Make and Create […]

Conservation, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Y30448U: 19 - Whale shot by a man-of-war at Cape Coast

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digitisation, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Conservation of the Lewis-Gibson Collection: re-treatment of manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah

Posted on 20 July 2015 by Emma Nichols

by Mary French, Rebecca Goldie and Emma Nichols Cambridge University Library (the UL) contains the largest collection of medieval Jewish writings in the world. Around […]

Conservation, Lewis-Gibson Collection

Victorian Celebrities

Posted on 14 July 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection has published an on-line catalogue for a fascinating series of photographic portraits which were issued between 1888 and 1896 […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

New catalogues published on Janus

Posted on 9 July 2015 by Frank

Over the last five years the Manuscripts department has been running a retrospective cataloguing project with the aim of creating a comprehensive on-line catalogue for […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus

Cambridge Digital Library – July update

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society