Christmas – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Joyful Sounds of Salvation

Posted on 14 December 2022 by William Hale

The Library Choir has been performing carols in the University Library Entrance Hall for more than thirty years. This year each of the seven carols […]

Christmas, Music, 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

Christmas in Changi – The Result!

Posted on 23 February 2016 by Emma Nichols

By Mary French and Emma Nichols Happy New Year from the Changi Conservators! Do you remember the Christmas Quiz from the Changi Guardian that we posed […]

Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Christmas in Changi

Posted on 22 December 2015 by Emma Nichols

by Emma Nichols and Mary French Seasons Greetings from the Changi Archive Conservators! As we prepare to celebrate the holiday season at home with family […]

Christmas, Conservation, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Christmas cookery in the University Library

Posted on 15 December 2015 by Liam Sims

Cookery books are not, as one might expect, a modern phenomenon. Before Nigella, Delia and the great Fanny Cradock taught us all how to make […]

Christmas, Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Recent Acquisitions: Printed Books

Posted on 2 December 2014 by Sophie Defrance

A previous post about the current exhibition in the entrance hall, Scribes and Printers, features recent acquisitions by the Department of Manuscripts. This post, in […]

Exhibitions, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions