'Outstanding international importance'
30 Jan 2020Cambridge University Library's world-class Special Collections recognised with Arts Council England Designation
Disaster at 37,000 feet
06 Jan 2020Cambridge University Library archive reveals the facts behind the Hollywood myths of 'The Aeronauts'
Mapping the Moon through the ages
16 Jul 2019On the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, the University Library shares some of its incredible moon-related maps and archive.
The collector of future memories
24 Jun 2019College Recorder Alice Oates is passionate about Pembroke, its community and capturing the latest instalment in the College’s 670-year history.
The archive of Professor Sir Robert Edwards, IVF pioneer, reveals his personal struggles: for recognition of an unsung female colleague and fair access to treatment for all
10 Jun 2019Newly released letters from Edwards’ archive show his personal battle as he repeatedly fought for official recognition of Jean Purdy’s equal contribution towards the discovery of IVF. Her work as a woman in science has gone largely unrecognised when compared to Edwards and Steptoe.
Britain from the Air: 1945-2009
21 Feb 2019Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.
Spitting Image archive comes to Cambridge University Library
14 Nov 2018A Margaret Thatcher puppet and the unbroadcast script and video tape for the pilot episode of Spitting Image have taken their place alongside the works of Newton, Darwin and other treasures at Cambridge University Library.
Revealing the personal side of the atomic scientist who changed the world
22 Sep 2017War diaries, scrapbooks, letters and photographs belonging to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential scientists of the modern era, will today be placed in the care of the Churchill Archives Centre.
Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library
14 Jun 2017A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one of Japan’s greatest works of literature.
Discarded History exhibition lifts the lid on 1,000 years of medieval history
27 Apr 2017Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts – chronicling 1,000 years of history in Old Cairo – have gone on display in Cambridge today for a six-month-long exhibition at Cambridge University Library.
