'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items – and were used as the basis for an early version of social networking.

Personal inventories spanning three centuries are helping researchers unlock the mysteries of how economies edge towards growth and prosperity.

An archive of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s original work throws fresh light on the workings of a brilliant mind.

Published 400 years ago, the first comprehensive atlas of Great Britain is being celebrated by Cambridge University Library, home to one of only five surviving proof sets, all of which differ in their composition.

Home to more than seven million books, Cambridge University Library is to celebrate the most influential, most bought, most read and most widely disseminated English language book of them all – the King James Bible.

Cambridge University Library has taken delivery of the personal archive of musician, broadcaster and writer Deryck Cooke (1919-1976).

Research into more than 30,000 unpublished drafts and letters casts new light on the inspirational Austrian novelist and playwright.