Burckhardt in Cambridge
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 »Cambridge collectors: Origins of the Whipple
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 »Sandars Lectures 2011-2012
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 »Hard luck
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 »‘Shelf Lives’: Does size matter?
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 »Radical print culture
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 »Cambridge collectors: The Steward Collection
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 »Stormy weather
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 […]
Continue reading »Royal West African Frontier Force
The Journal of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) was launched in July 2011, filling a gap in the research literature. Published twice a […]
Continue reading »Cambridge collectors: Samuel Savage Lewis
Gill Cannell’s piece on the Parker Library blog about the Corpus Christi College Fellow and Librarian Samuel Savage Lewis (1836–1891) continues our theme of Cambridge […]
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