Every conservation treatment we undertake at the University Library is done with the specifics of the collection item in mind. We consider the materiality of […]
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Imagine having to file your financial year-end invoices in one of these mammoth volumes! The Cambridge University Press Archive contains three oversize ‘stationery’ bindings that […]
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Although the Cambridge University Libraries conservators have been working in new and innovative ways since being physically separated from our collections a number of weeks […]
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By Fay Humphreys Granted by Henry VIII in 1534, the Letters Patent (UA Luard 162) gave the University of Cambridge the right to appoint […]
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by Fay Humphreys Cambridge University Press was established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been authorised by Henry […]
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Since the 1970s, records from Cambridge University Press have been transferred from offices in the Pitt Building on Trumpington Street and the Edinburgh Building and […]
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