‘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 […]
Continue reading »View the Library’s treasures cover to cover
Further content and functionality has been added to the Cambridge Digital Library. We have added more items to the Islamic Manuscripts and Newton collections—including several […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 21 March 2012
Dott. Laura Nuvoloni (Incunabula Project Cataloguer, Cambridge University Library) will give a talk on ‘Witnesses of the past: the Incunabula Collection at Cambridge University Library’ […]
Continue reading »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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