Exhibitions – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Mesmerised!

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Liam Sims

Now largely forgotten, the practice of mesmerism (a form of hypnosis named after the German doctor Franz Mesmer) was highly influential in the late eighteenth […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr

Posted on 23 July 2018 by John Wells

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]

Archives, Exhibitions, French, Manuscripts, Poetry, Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Library history, Special Collections

Reading Euclid at Cambridge

Posted on 4 June 2018 by Liam Sims

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Incunabula, Rare Books, Special Collections

Smelly Remedy: Womb Fumigation Illustrated in Seventeenth Century Print

Posted on 12 March 2018 by Special Collections

Swelling, shifting and releasing noxious vapours, the Early Modern womb was deemed to be an unruly organ and the cause of numerous ailments. The symptoms […]

Exhibitions, Illustration, Medicine, women

From Flat Plains to Ascending Hills: Conservation challenges for the Greenough Map

Posted on 1 March 2018 by CUL Conservation

By Lucy Cheng and Ngaio Vince-Dewerse Ever wanted to go behind the scenes to get a glimpse of how an exhibition is put together? The […]

Conservation, Exhibitions, Maps, Special Collections

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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’

Posted on 4 December 2017 by John Wells

The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

Reckoning the lost and found: tally sticks re-discovered at the UL

Posted on 21 November 2017 by Sian Collins

In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Thom Gunn revived and remembered

Posted on 19 October 2017 by John Wells

On Thursday 26 October the University Library is offering a chance to join poet Clive Wilmer at the launch of his Faber edition of the […]

Events, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry

Festival of Ideas 2017 at the University Library

Posted on 16 October 2017 by Special Collections

The Special Collections team are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities […]

Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

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