Charles Dickens – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Mesmerised!

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Liam Sims

Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

A Christmas Carol in Pictures

Posted on 21 December 2016 by William Hale

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was first published in December 1843, with coloured engravings by John Leech. This post is based on an exhibition put […]

Christmas, Illustration

‘Shelf Lives’: Does size matter?

Posted on 10 February 2012 by Special Collections

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 […]

Collectors and collecting