Rousseau’s tercentenary
As well as certain other events this year, 2012 marks three hundred years since the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, composer, educational theorist and inventor […]
Continue reading »Royal Tour of the Commonwealth 1953-54
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee offers an excellent opportunity to celebrate her devoted service as Head of the Commonwealth, as reflected in the […]
Continue reading »Matthew Parker as collector: the ones that got away I
There are still a couple of weeks left to see the ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition at the University Library, which closes on 16 June. And in […]
Continue reading »‘Moore Bede’ on TV and in ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition
“It’s no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important books in the story of Britain”—Michael Wood on ‘The Moore Bede’. The […]
Continue reading »Joanne Limburg Papers
For some time the Library has been engaged in building its collections of papers of modern and contemporary poets with local Cambridge connections, whether to […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 16 May 2012
Dr Mark Curran, Munby Fellow, will give a talk on ‘Beyond the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France’ on Wednesday, 16 May, 5:00 pm in the […]
Continue reading »More Music Collectors…
A previous post on this blog, titled Music collectors’ ‘Shelf Lives’, alerted you to the fact that MusiCB3, the blog of the Music Collections at […]
Continue reading »Cambridge collectors: The last of his kind: George Parker Bidder
The University Library’s exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ runs for another six weeks until 16 June 2012. Dawn Moutrey continues […]
Continue reading »Rehabilitating Henrietta
A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library is leading us to reassess one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s […]
Continue reading »A Claudel archive
During the First World War, the poet, playwright and diplomat Paul Claudel (1868-1955) struck up a friendship with Audrey Parr, the wife of a British […]
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