Donation to digitise Japanese treasures
Treasures from the University Library’s Japanese Collections are to be digitised and made freely available to a global audience, thanks to a gift from Professor […]
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‘All things go free that have survived’: Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
Seamus Heaney, the most celebrated member of a remarkable generation of Irish poets, died on the 30th of August at the age of 74. His […]
Continue reading »Henri Maccheroni artist-books exhibition
In the context of the international colloquium ‘Les Espaces du Livre: Supports et acteurs de la création texte/image (XXe-XXIe siècles)’, held at Trinity College from […]
Continue reading »‘A thing useful against evils’ – An Anglo-Saxon gospel book from Northumbria
For early medieval Christian communities, a gospel book was a treasured possession and, according to an Anglo-Saxon riddle, ‘a thing useful against evils’. The most […]
Continue reading »“Good bookes to be sought”: A. N. L. Munby the collector
The latest exhibition in the North Front Corridor marks the centenary of the birth of one of Cambridge’s most eminent twentieth-century librarians. Born on Christmas […]
Continue reading »‘Pride and prejudice: celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel’
Ten illustrated editions of Pride and prejudice from the Library’s collections will feature in an exhibition at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from 21–23 June 2013. […]
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Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]
Continue reading »Peter Scupham at Eighty
The new exhibition in the North Front Corridor celebrates the eightieth birthday of the distinguished poet Peter Scupham. Born in Bootle in 1933, Scupham read […]
Continue reading »In search of the erhu 尋覓二胡: an exhibition by Colin Huehns
The items described here are on display in the Anderson Room cases at Cambridge University Library until 10 May 2013 The erhu epitomises Chinese music; […]
Continue reading »Printers and their papers
The North Front corridor display cases are currently showing an array of works associated with some of the most important printers and typographers of the […]
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