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A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story

Posted on 31 December 2022 by Special Collections

This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]

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Archives, Collectors and collecting, Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

M. R. James and the ghosts of the old University Library

Posted on 22 October 2019 by Jill Whitelock

‘Wisdom will not expect the men of my generation or of several later ones to leave without a sore pang of regret the old home […]

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Archives, Library history

“The beauty of expression”: M.R. James and the First World War Memorial Scroll

Posted on 4 August 2016 by Special Collections

The War Reserve collection in the University Library, initiated by Librarian Francis Jenkinson, contains a wealth of interesting things for the military researcher, ranging from […]

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Anniversaries, Rare Books

A. N. L. Munby’s Christmas ghost stories

Posted on 25 December 2015 by Liam Sims

A. N. L. ‘Tim’ Munby (1913-1974), who has featured on these pages before, has at least two connections with Christmas. Most importantly, he was born […]

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Christmas, Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

The ghostly world of M. R. James

Posted on 12 June 2015 by Liam Sims

Among the Library’s recent acquisitions is a privately printed ghost story by M. R. James, who died on this day in 1936. It is the […]

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Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

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