The Crimean War letters of Captain Blackett
Alma Crimea Sep th 21st My dear Father, I have hardly a moment, but take the present opportunity of letting you know that all is […]
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Continue reading »Cambridge University Library is pleased to present two events for the 2012 Science Festival, to which you are warmly invited. The lectures are free, but […]
Continue reading »Housed inside a small brown box shelved alongside other Library manuscripts is an assortment of 15 slim notebooks formerly belonging to the scholar and explorer […]
Continue reading »Dawn Moutrey continues our theme of Cambridge collectors with a post on the origin of the Whipple Library in the collection of Robert Stewart Whipple. […]
Continue reading »The Sandars Readership in Bibliography was instituted in 1895 with a bequest of £2000 left to the University by Mr Samuel Sandars of Trinity College […]
Continue reading »The ‘hard luck story’ has a long pedigree, and there has always been difficulty knowing how much — if anything — in each tale is […]
Continue reading »Dominique Ruhlmann of Trinity Hall Library continues the ‘Shelf Lives’ theme with her feature on a letter of advice from Charles Dickens to his son […]
Continue reading »On Wednesday 15 February, John Gardner will give a talk in the Library on ‘Radical Print Culture from 1815 to 1822’. ‘“Radical” is a new […]
Continue reading »Our theme of Cambridge collectors, accompanying the current exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’, continues with a post by Dawn Moutrey […]
Continue reading »The Sanskrit Manuscripts Project, Cambridge, has recently launched its own website with full details about the project, news and features on some of the manuscripts […]
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