‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special collections in lockdown
I dared not dream that this dream had come true:That I was bending over that yellow pageLit with his words – our boy, our poet, […]
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Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition
In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]
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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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The original red-eye: Alcock and Brown across the Atlantic
Almost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to […]
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Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California
Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]
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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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Discoveries in the reading rooms
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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Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]
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Before Endeavour: Joseph Banks and his travels in England and Wales
A guest post by Edwin Rose, PhD student in the Department of the History & Philosophy of Science, working on ‘Managing nature in the age […]
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Queering the UL
February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]
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