Not Orville and Wilbur
In the world in general mention of the Wright Brothers brings to mind the pioneers of controlled powered manned flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright. In […]
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The Zoologist’s Wartime Christmas
“In the swirl of the dark waters sighs the Spirit of the Sea. The moon has set. From out of the darkness flashes the scudding […]
Continue reading »Christmas in miniature
An additional Christmas image to complement our ‘Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar’. This miniature of the Virgin and Child is from a sixteenth-century manuscript featured in […]
Continue reading »TODAY: Adam Gacek, ‘Of bookworms, plants and squiggles: my unexpected journey into the world of Islamic manuscripts’
Adam Gacek, former Head of Islamic Studies Library and Faculty Lecturer in Arabic Manuscript Studies, McGill University, Montreal, will speak today, 19 November 2012, in […]
Continue reading »‘This lamented Minister’: the papers of Spencer Perceval at Cambridge University Library
Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, was shot dead in the House of Commons lobby on 11 May 1812. His killer was John Bellingham, described by P.J. […]
Continue reading »Constance Gordon-Cumming: Intrepid Victorian Traveller … and Umbrella Historian?
A particularly prescient manuscript for this year has recently been added to Janus, the online catalogue for Cambridge archives and manuscripts. MS Add. 6185 is […]
Continue reading »Siegfried Sassoon’s Poems for ‘Mamsy’
The University Library is pleased to announce that descriptions of two new series of the Siegfried Sassoon papers are now available on Janus, the Cambridge […]
Continue reading »The man who discovered a ‘lost’ wonder of the world
Among the numerous treasures at Cambridge University Library are the private documents of the explorer John Lewis Burckhardt, who rediscovered the ancient city of Petra […]
Continue reading »‘Moore Bede’ on TV and in ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition
“It’s no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important books in the story of Britain”—Michael Wood on ‘The Moore Bede’. The […]
Continue reading »Joanne Limburg Papers
For some time the Library has been engaged in building its collections of papers of modern and contemporary poets with local Cambridge connections, whether to […]
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