Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library
Cambridge University Library is pleased to present two events for the 2012 Science Festival, to which you are warmly invited. The lectures are free, but […]
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The Papers of Edmund Blunden
Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers 2
RCMS 37/5/76 As promised, the restored text of Queen Victoria’s rebuke to Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers has been reproduced, as no cryptanalyst […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Essay Competition archive
A treasure-trove for historians and teachers Many school teachers will already be familiar with the Royal Commonwealth Society’s essay competition. Held annually, and open to […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is completing a detailed online description of the papers of the politician Hugh Childers (1827–1896). One of the most fascinating items […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ II
Hugh Pearson distinguished himself as Director of Surveys in Sudan between 1905 and 1922, mapping huge tracts of little known desert, forest, marsh and waterways. […]
Continue reading »Celebrating Hopkins and biochemistry
On Friday afternoon it was my very great pleasure to attend the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the Nobel Prize winning biochemist Sir Frederick Gowland […]
Continue reading »Papers of William Robertson Smith
As part of our programme of regular additions to Janus, the website for Cambridge archives catalogues, we have recently added a catalogue of the letters […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’
This is the title of an important collection of letters recently acquired by the Royal Commonwealth Society department, RCMS 356. The author was the Royal […]
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