Purcell – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Liam Sims

In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]

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

Britten and Purcell: the arc of universal harmony

Posted on 18 November 2013 by Emily Dourish

The University Library is celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s greatest composers, Benjamin Britten, with a display in the Entrance Hall exhibition cases. Best […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Music