Books and Babies
Most displays in the Library’s main Exhibition Centre draw on Special Collections materials to some degree, but few of them have included quite such a […]
Continue reading »Eighteenth-century English erotica for a discerning German wartime audience
The Rare Books Department has just purchased a rather unusual piece of First-World-War printing. John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill […]
Continue reading »Darwin’s personal library put online
Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ II
Hugh Pearson distinguished himself as Director of Surveys in Sudan between 1905 and 1922, mapping huge tracts of little known desert, forest, marsh and waterways. […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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