school magazines – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Blackout: war time school life

Posted on 7 May 2022 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

On 25th August 1939, the German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein, under the pretext of making a courtesy visit, sailed into the Port of Gdansk, anchoring 150m from […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections, World War Two

The school years of Dame Muriel Spark

Posted on 18 January 2019 by Special Collections

This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]

Acquisitions, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

A letter of gratitude

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]

Rare Books, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Training of Electrical Engineers – how it was done in 1894

Posted on 29 July 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

A very interesting process called electrification occurred in Britain and other countries from mid-1880 until around 1950. This process included the changeover from line shafts […]

Library history, Photographs, Rare Books, Special Collections