Cambridge University Library Special Collections

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

The ghostly world of M. R. James

Posted on 12 June 2015 by Liam Sims

Among the Library’s recent acquisitions is a privately printed ghost story by M. R. James, who died on this day in 1936. It is the […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Exhibition of Chinese treasures

Posted on 9 June 2015 by Special Collections

Treasures from our Chinese collections feature in a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases. The items, dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Exhibitions

Cambridge Digital Library—June update

Posted on 3 June 2015 by Special Collections

The June release of the Cambridge Digital Library sees the launch of our new Chinese collection. Our initial selection shows the temporal range, diversity of […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Royal Commonwealth Society

Royal Asiatic Society treasures arrive on deposit

Posted on 26 May 2015 by Special Collections

Three beautifully illustrated Persian manuscripts have been placed in the University Library on long-term deposit by the Royal Asiatic Society. Originally acquired by the Society […]

Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern

British Malaya in the 1930s

Posted on 20 May 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have created an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, the archives of the railway engineer Hugh Murton Le Fleming. A […]

Archives, New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society