Cambridge University Press at War
A fascinating post about the activities of Cambridge University Press during World War I has been published on the Press’s blog, fifteeneightyfour. It’s written by […]
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Dobinson Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have published an on-line catalogue of a recent acquisition: the photographs and archives of Henry and Phyllis Dobinson. Henry was […]
Continue reading »Claude Sitwell Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is delighted to announce the acquisition of photographs and correspondence relating to the soldier and colonial administrator Lt. Col. Claude […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Sir John Glover
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library has recently published an on-line catalogue of the papers of Sir John Hawley Glover. A Royal […]
Continue reading »Friends talk: Cambridge poets and their papers
On Wednesday February 19, the Friends of Cambridge University Library are pleased to welcome poet and literary critic J.H. Prynne, together with teacher and author […]
Continue reading »Royal Colonial Institute Photographic Portraits
We are happy to report that a catalogue of the photographic portrait collection of the Royal Colonial Institute has recently been published on Janus, Cambridge […]
Continue reading »‘My dearest Siegfried’: The Egremont Sassoon Papers
Poet and author Siegfried Sassoon was a prolific letter writer and throughout his life maintained a close friendship and correspondence with his mother Georgiana Theresa […]
Continue reading »Unusual pictures from the Manuscripts Department as it launches Image of the Month
Today the Manuscripts Department launches its Image of the Month project. The Image of the Month will feature single images of interesting objects or information […]
Continue reading »The Allberry fragments: Manichaean texts rediscovered
A lecture by Professor Nils Arne Pedersen on ‘The Syriac-Manichaean “Allberry fragments”: how they were rediscovered, and what they can tell us’ will be held […]
Continue reading »‘It is a person’s privilege to go to hell’: how Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alice Ambrose fell out
It’s known that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein fell out with one of his most beloved students, the American logician Alice Ambrose. The source of the […]
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