Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 20 November 2013
Professor David McKitterick (Librarian and Vice-Master at Trinity College Cambridge) will give a paper on ‘What is the use of books without pictures? Empty space […]
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Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »An intriguing catalogue concerning the London auction of the possessions of prizefighter Tom Sayers (1826–1865) Being closely associated with the exploration and extension of the […]
Continue reading »150 years ago today, the English Football Association was founded. In a London tavern a group of representatives from a dozen clubs playing their own […]
Continue reading »The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]
Continue reading »Special Collections staff are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities and social […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library is delighted to open this year’s competition for the 2014 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by […]
Continue reading »Treasures from the University Library’s Japanese Collections are to be digitised and made freely available to a global audience, thanks to a gift from Professor […]
Continue reading »Adultery, libel, bribery, attempted murder: Cambridge University’s criminal underbelly has been exposed after painstaking research on its Vice-Chancellor’s Court records from the sixteenth and seventeenth […]
Continue reading »Seamus Heaney, the most celebrated member of a remarkable generation of Irish poets, died on the 30th of August at the age of 74. His […]
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