The death of a prince: four hundred years on
A national outpouring of grief over the death of a member of the royal family has often in recent times been portrayed and criticised 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 »
The eruption of Mont Pelée, 1902
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an item level catalogue of a photograph collection, Y307E, which strikingly records one of the great natural […]
Continue reading »Landbeach to Linnaeus: a guest post by Jaap Harskamp
Cambridge University Library holds a rich collection of botanical studies printed in the Low Countries, many of which were originally part of the collection of […]
Continue reading »Showing Their Hands
Dawson Turner, the banker, antiquary, and leading light of autograph collectors in the early nineteenth century, claimed that he had ‘never met with the man […]
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 »Rousseau’s Montaigne in Paris
Cambridge University Library’s copy of Montaigne’s Essais (Paris, 1652), formerly owned and annotated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), currently features in a major exhibition at the […]
Continue reading »Pietro Bembo and the University Library’s copy of De Aetna (1496)
Autograph variants and corrections of the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) have been identified in Cambridge University Library’s copy of his dialogue De Aetna published in Venice by […]
Continue reading »