Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive
by Fay Humphreys Cambridge University Press was established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been authorised by Henry […]
Continue reading »by Fay Humphreys Cambridge University Press was established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been authorised by Henry […]
Continue reading »Imagine maps as big as bedsheets, and then imagine the sheets big enough for beds made wide enough to sleep extended families. Only such a […]
Continue reading »Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]
Continue reading »The physical dimensions of a Book of Hours give you immediate clues as to how they were used: they are small, often pocket-sized books, intended […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an on-line catalogue for one of its most significant recent acquisitions, the papers of the diplomat […]
Continue reading »Books added to the collections of the Rare Books Department this month include a French almanac, a further addition to our holdings of Enlightenment texts, […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]
Continue reading »Guest post by Boris Jardine. Slide rules dominated the practice of mathematics from their invention in reign of King Charles I to their sudden, electronic-calculator […]
Continue reading »There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have uploaded an on-line catalogue for a visually rich recent acquisition, donated by the former planter John Weatherstone. Weatherstone was […]
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