Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Rehabilitating Henrietta

Posted on 12 April 2012 by Special Collections

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 […]

Darwin Correspondence Project, Manuscripts

A Claudel archive

Posted on 5 April 2012 by John Wells

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 […]

French, Manuscripts, New on Janus

View the Library’s treasures cover to cover

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 21 March 2012

Posted on 19 March 2012 by Special Collections

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’ […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Events, Incunabula

The Crimean War letters of Captain Blackett

Posted on 15 March 2012 by Frank

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 […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus

Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Events, Rare Books

Burckhardt in Cambridge

Posted on 2 March 2012 by Catherine Ansorge

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 […]

In the spotlight, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern

Cambridge collectors: Origins of the Whipple

Posted on 28 February 2012 by Special Collections

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. […]

Collectors and collecting

Sandars Lectures 2011-2012

Posted on 20 February 2012 by Ed

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 […]

Events, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Rare Books

Hard luck

Posted on 13 February 2012 by John Wells

The ‘hard luck story’ has a long pedigree, and there has always been difficulty knowing how much — if anything — in each tale is […]

Manuscripts