Friends talk: Literature of the Liberation (4 June)
The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey on the ‘Literature of the Liberation’ in conjunction with the exhibition […]
Continue reading »29 May: Talk by Peter Fox on the history of Trinity College Library Dublin
The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by the Emeritus University Librarian, Peter Fox to mark the launch of his new book, […]
Continue reading »Flesh wounds : David Holbrook and D-Day
David Holbrook, later well-known as a writer, educationist and controversialist, landed in Normandy as a twenty-one year old tank commander on D-Day, 6 June 1944. […]
Continue reading »Broughton Parish Library: preservation and conservation
The collection of rare books held by Cambridge University Library has been built up over more than six centuries by a variety of means, including […]
Continue reading »Literature of the Liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946
A new exhibition in the Library celebrates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris and shows some of the books that were published, mainly […]
Continue reading »Claude Sitwell Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is delighted to announce the acquisition of photographs and correspondence relating to the soldier and colonial administrator Lt. Col. Claude […]
Continue reading »William Shakespeare, 1564-1616: a guest post by Hester Lees-Jeffries
William Shakespeare was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 26 April 1564; since at least the eighteenth century, his birthdate has been given as […]
Continue reading »The medical library of Thomas Lorkyn (1528-1591)
On this day – April 21st – in 1564, in the same week as Shakespeare was born, Thomas Lorkyn was appointed as the fourth Regius […]
Continue reading »Beasts in the University Library
Guest post by Harriet Hale, Graduate Library Trainee at Trinity College. Cambridge. One of the great things about a traineeship in Cambridge is that, with […]
Continue reading »An early Cambridge binding by Nicholas Spierinck
The library has recently acquired, with help from the Friends of Cambridge University Library, an important sammelband (catalogued at the shelfmark 5000.d.122) of nine early […]
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