Magnus Hirschfeld & sex reform
Post by Alina Wanitzek (Assistant Librarian, Department of Psychology) In October 2022, San Francisco–based queer public historian and book dealer Gerard Koskovich came to Cambridge […]
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The Paget family of East Anglia
Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) Last year, the University Library acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as […]
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Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration between the Cambridge School of Art and the Royal Commonwealth Society collection
Last term Cambridge University Library welcomed a group of second-year photography students from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), as part of […]
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A Curious Cure for a Cambridge Book – Part One
As one of the Project Cataloguers for Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, I feel incredibly lucky to be able to spend time with the diverse […]
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Secrets of the Erpenius copy of the Killing Story of Husain in Karbala
This post is by Munby Fellow Dr Majid Daneshgar, whose project for 2022/23 is entitled Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global […]
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Fragments, fragments, fragments
A guest post by Matthew Coulter In libraries across the world there are boxes and boxes of fragments from medieval texts. Between the 15th and […]
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Shared digital curation of southern African collections
Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]
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A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story
This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]
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Joyful Sounds of Salvation
The Library Choir has been performing carols in the University Library Entrance Hall for more than thirty years. This year each of the seven carols […]
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An Early “Mirror for Princes” in Southeast Asia: The First Known Malay Translation of Akhlaq-e Mohseni
This post is by Munby Fellow Dr Majid Daneshgar, whose project for 2022/23 is entitled Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global […]
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