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A collection of miscellaneous handwriting samples, recently catalogued by Dr J.F. Coakley, has yielded a few slips of paper bearing alphabets and other specimens for […]
Continue reading »A collection of miscellaneous handwriting samples, recently catalogued by Dr J.F. Coakley, has yielded a few slips of paper bearing alphabets and other specimens for […]
Continue reading »The University Library has just received a very timely donation from the Archives of St John’s College, to whom we are very grateful. It comprises a […]
Continue reading »On Thursday 20 June the poet Clive Wilmer will give a reading from his work to mark the launch of his Collected Poems from Carcanet […]
Continue reading »Recent visitors to the Library’s Entrance Hall cannot fail to have noticed the new art installation there, which extends up the stairways and on to […]
Continue reading »The Essay Life in Fragments: Stories from the Cairo Genizah BBC Radio 3, 27–31 May 10:45pm The Cairo Genizah is a treasure trove of manuscripts […]
Continue reading »Professor Alison Sinclair will give a paper on ‘Today we shall go slumming: telling tales in the University Library´s Spanish sueltos collection’. The talk will […]
Continue reading »Fragments of history frequently emerge out of the collections kept in the Manuscripts Reading Room. While cataloguing the GE Moore collection, I stumbled across this […]
Continue reading »Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]
Continue reading »The new exhibition in the North Front Corridor celebrates the eightieth birthday of the distinguished poet Peter Scupham. Born in Bootle in 1933, Scupham read […]
Continue reading »Elizabeth Upper (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library) will give a paper on ‘Beheaded cows, English religious politics and the title vignette of Rede me and […]
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