Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge University Library
23 February 2024Beloved poetry project archive contains letters from Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates
The forgotten poet of Fordham
10 December 2019Handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute despite royal patronage – have been saved by Cambridge University Library.
The first non-stop transatlantic flight - 100 years on
14 June 2019Exhibiton and Vickers archive at Cambridge University Library celebrates aviation milestone.
Lines of Thought: Telling the Story of History
16 September 2016Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy, and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our final film celebrating Lines of Thought at Cambridge University Library.
Waterloo: the first draft of history
30 April 2015A letter written from the body-strewn battlefield at Waterloo, an invasion map of the UK, and a book from Napoleon’s personal library in exile will go on display in Cambridge during one of the first major Waterloo exhibitions of the bicentenary commemorations.
‘A sunlit picture of hell’: Sassoon’s war diaries go online for first time
01 August 2014Siegfried 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 since Britain declared war on Germany.
Conquering a continent: how the French language circulated in Britain and medieval Europe
22 January 2014A 13th-century manuscript of Arthurian legend once owned by the Knights Templar is one of the star attractions of a new exhibition opening today at Cambridge University Library.
University Library’s greatest treasures on show
18 January 2012An unpublished Rupert Brooke poem will sit alongside some of Cambridge University Library’s greatest treasures when a free exhibition of highlights from its priceless collections opens to the public today.
