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Tag: Exhibitions

Discoveries in the reading rooms

Posted on 8 April 2019 by Emily Dourish

Readers working with material in the University Library’s Special Collections reading rooms are accustomed to discovering new and exciting things every day, whether that be […]

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Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

From Flat Plains to Ascending Hills: Conservation challenges for the Greenough Map

Posted on 1 March 2018 by CUL Conservation

By Lucy Cheng and Ngaio Vince-Dewerse Ever wanted to go behind the scenes to get a glimpse of how an exhibition is put together? The […]

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Conservation, Exhibitions, Maps, Special Collections

Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive

Posted on 15 May 2017 by CUL Conservation

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 […]

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Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Conservation, Exhibitions

Changi archives Entrance Hall exhibition

Posted on 21 February 2017 by John C.

  The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have mounted an exhibition in the entrance hall of Cambridge University Library displaying some of the most significant items […]

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Conservation, Exhibitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Curator for a Day

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Liam Sims

In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]

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600th anniversary, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, 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 […]

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Exhibitions, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

‘Swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget’: Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War Poems in Context

Posted on 23 July 2014 by Dr Emma Saunders

The First World War was one of the defining conflicts of European history. On 4 August 1914, the date when Britain entered the War, a […]

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Manuscripts, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

Spot the Difference!

Posted on 25 July 2012 by Anne Taylor

A ‘guest blog’ by David Langley In 2010 the Library staged a fascinating exhibition – Under Covers: Documenting Spies – from its own collections and […]

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Exhibitions, Maps, Special Collections

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