The Cambridge Ladders
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 »BBC Radio 3: Life in Fragments: Stories from the Cairo Genizah
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 »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 15 May 2013
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 »The Trial of Jerry McGill
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 […]
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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 »Peter Scupham at Eighty
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 »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 1 May 2013
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 […]
Continue reading »In search of the erhu 尋覓二胡: an exhibition by Colin Huehns
The items described here are on display in the Anderson Room cases at Cambridge University Library until 10 May 2013 The erhu epitomises Chinese music; […]
Continue reading »Printed ‘Frost Fair’ ephemera in the University Library
The University Library holds many pieces of ephemera – notices, pamphlets and single sheets not intended to last or be preserved – which provide an […]
Continue reading »Introducing GE Moore
GE Moore was famous during his lifetime for his book Principia Ethica (1903), a founding text of analytic philosophy. Those familiar with Moore only through […]
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