The ‘Cambridge Rules’ of football, 1863
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 »Rare Spanish plays on display
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 »Festival of Ideas
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 »Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2014
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 »Donation to digitise Japanese treasures
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 »Cambridge’s criminal past revealed in centuries-old court records
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 »‘All things go free that have survived’: Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
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 […]
Continue reading »The Allberry fragments: Manichaean texts rediscovered
A lecture by Professor Nils Arne Pedersen on ‘The Syriac-Manichaean “Allberry fragments”: how they were rediscovered, and what they can tell us’ will be held […]
Continue reading »Henri Maccheroni artist-books exhibition
In the context of the international colloquium ‘Les Espaces du Livre: Supports et acteurs de la création texte/image (XXe-XXIe siècles)’, held at Trinity College from […]
Continue reading »1513–2013: Il Principe is 500 years old
The year 2013 marks the quincentenary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe, one of the most widely read political writings of all time. The Italian Collections […]
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