Celebrating Hopkins and biochemistry
On Friday afternoon it was my very great pleasure to attend the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the Nobel Prize winning biochemist Sir Frederick Gowland […]
Continue reading »Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner 2010-2011
The winner of this year’s Rose Book-Collecting Prize is Basie Bales Gitlin of Pembroke College, for his collection of salesman’s samples, ‘Canvassing books’. Read the […]
Continue reading »Papers of William Robertson Smith
As part of our programme of regular additions to Janus, the website for Cambridge archives catalogues, we have recently added a catalogue of the letters […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’
This is the title of an important collection of letters recently acquired by the Royal Commonwealth Society department, RCMS 356. The author was the Royal […]
Continue reading »‘Only death remains for him’: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Fragment of the Month
Torture was an inescapable fact of life in medieval jails, and the Genizah has preserved an extraordinary letter, probably written in the 13th century, in […]
Continue reading »What’s so special about Music?
Maybe surprisingly, the invitation to join this blog as a contributor made me re-consider what’s so special about Music. Of course, being employed within the […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 18 May 2011
The Munby Fellow, Dirk Imhof, will give a talk on ‘The Plantin Presses of Catholic Antwerp and Calvinist Leiden around 1600: working together or separately?’ […]
Continue reading »Islamic seals event
On Thursday 19 May, Venetia Porter and Annabel Gallop will give a talk in the Library on ‘Islamic Seals: Treasures from the British Library […]
Continue reading »John Ruskin and the King James Bible
Ruskin, like many English writers, was inspired by the King James Bible: not only its religious teaching but its rhythms, imagery and social subversiveness. On […]
Continue reading »Incunabula lecture
On 7 June the incunabulist Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will give a masterclass at Cambridge University Library on collation and composition in […]
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