Oscar Wilde – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Erotica comes to Cambridge

Posted on 4 February 2020 by Liam Sims

When one thinks of the great collections which Cambridge University Library has built up over its six centuries, erotic literature is probably not very near […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, French, Illustration, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rupert Brooke: 100 years on

Posted on 23 April 2015 by Liam Sims

A century ago today – on 23rd April 1915 – died Rupert Brooke, lauded in his lifetime as one of the country’s finest poets. This […]

Collectors and collecting, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

A presentation copy from Oscar Wilde

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Liam Sims

Having been reminded by the BBC and British Library this morning that today is the 160th anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer and […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections