A surprising find among a librarian’s letters
Post by Emily Perdue. While working in the Manuscripts department, I have had the opportunity to document a significant portion of Henry Bradshaw’s letters. Henry […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. Early implementers In line with the overall project plan which […]
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Piecing Together the Evidence: Cataloguing a Greek Manuscript
Alongside conservation and digitisation, the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project encompasses the creation of detailed catalogue descriptions for each manuscript, to accompany the images published […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We have been working on the project plan: there have […]
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Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives
A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We’ve been working on costs and a business model for […]
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Conflicting Chronologies: A New Exhibition at the Whipple Library
A guest post by Meira Gold, PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her research concerns the history of Victorian Egyptology […]
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Challenging Challenger: The Fallout between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Society for Psychical Research
Post by Elizabeth Savage, PhD (Dunelm) “Do you conceive that a logical brain, a brain of the first order, needs to read and to study […]
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A new Archive Management System for Cambridge
There is a healthy tradition of collaboration among archives in Cambridge. Local archival repositories vary widely in size from large (like the University Library’s Archives […]
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‘The World Is Not Enough’: Devotional Manuscripts of the Bond Family in Cambridge University Library
Here’s a guest post by Dr Francis Young about a recent acquisition by the UL: On 22 February 2019 Cambridge University Library received the generous […]
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