Chapbooks – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Recent Acquisition: Tippling Sally

Posted on 24 February 2017 by Special Collections

Guest post by Cliff Webb.

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

New Old Books: May 2016

Posted on 1 June 2016 by William Hale

Acquisitions in the Rare Books Department this month focussed mainly on popular literature for young and old, also including several items of Irish interest and […]

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Rare Spanish plays on display

Posted on 24 October 2013 by Emily Dourish

The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]

Exhibitions, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 15 May 2013

Posted on 11 May 2013 by Special Collections

Professor Alison Sinclair will give a paper on ‘Today we shall go slumming: telling tales in the University Library´s Spanish sueltos collection’. The talk will […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Events

Read all about it!

Posted on 30 April 2013 by Emily Dourish

Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Exhibitions