A Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar: 1st December
During December, Cambridge University Library will be celebrating ‘A Victorian Christmas’ with an online advent calendar on the Special Collections blog. Each day in the […]
Continue reading »Parisian Nights
Fragments from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection were on the move last week, heading to an exhibition on The thousand and one nights at the Institut […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 28 November 2012
Dr Martin Davies will give a talk on ‘The Master of the Barbo Missal and the coming of print to Italy’ on Wednesday, 28 November, […]
Continue reading »TODAY: Adam Gacek, ‘Of bookworms, plants and squiggles: my unexpected journey into the world of Islamic manuscripts’
Adam Gacek, former Head of Islamic Studies Library and Faculty Lecturer in Arabic Manuscript Studies, McGill University, Montreal, will speak today, 19 November 2012, in […]
Continue reading »Historian’s thoughts turn to Gold: a guest post by Owain Richards
Owain Richards reflects on a collection of photographs from Ghana, which form part of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s collections, acquired by the University Library in […]
Continue reading »The death of a prince: four hundred years on
A national outpouring of grief over the death of a member of the royal family has often in recent times been portrayed and criticised in […]
Continue reading »‘This lamented Minister’: the papers of Spencer Perceval at Cambridge University Library
Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, was shot dead in the House of Commons lobby on 11 May 1812. His killer was John Bellingham, described by P.J. […]
Continue reading »Constance Gordon-Cumming: Intrepid Victorian Traveller … and Umbrella Historian?
A particularly prescient manuscript for this year has recently been added to Janus, the online catalogue for Cambridge archives and manuscripts. MS Add. 6185 is […]
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The eruption of Mont Pelée, 1902
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an item level catalogue of a photograph collection, Y307E, which strikingly records one of the great natural […]
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