Chauncy Hare Townshend – 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

Wonderful Wisbech

Posted on 24 April 2018 by Jill Whitelock

It was a lovely spring day for the Friends of Cambridge University Library’s visit to the Wisbech & Fenland Museum on 14 April to explore […]

Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Library history