Heavens above
A 600-year-old astronomical document is now moving into the modern era, with a symposium at the Whipple Museum to mark its digitisation.
View Article80-year old photograph albums throw light on the building of the iconic...
Photographic albums uncovered at the University Library (UL) offer a unique view of the huge removal job which 80 years ago this week saw one million items successfully moved to their new home.
View ArticleSassoon's War Journals Released Online
Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War diaries – some bearing traces of mud from the Somme – are among 4,100 pages from his personal archive being made freely available online from today, almost 100 years...
View ArticleShortlist revealed for Library landscape design competition
The University Library and the Department of Architecture have revealed the shortlist for a design competition to attract bold re-imaginings of the open spaces and environment of the iconic Giles...
View ArticleUncovering the text of the New Testament
A £1.1m campaign by Cambridge University Library to secure one of the most important New Testament manuscripts – the seventh-century Codex Zacynthius – has been a success.
View ArticleCambridge Festival of Ideas now on!
Cambridge University Library is once again taking part in the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, which offers a series of engaging and thought-provoking events that celebrate the arts, humanities and social...
View ArticlePrivate Lives of Print: exhibition to celebrate early printed books
A unique copy of the Gutenberg Bible – Europe’s first printed book using moveable type – is to go on display in a spectacular exhibition charting how books were simultaneously cherished and...
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