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Transcribing together

23 Jul 2021

Volunteers join together to help the Cambridge Digital Library transcribe the notebooks of notable British ecologist, Oliver Rackham.

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Mapping the world - one digitisation at a time

20 Jan 2021

They transport us, educate us, and inspire us but when was the last time you used a map? Explore the world of maps on the Cambridge Digital Library.

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Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

27 Mar 2019

Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.

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Folio 13 verso, a representation of the goddess Prajñāpāramitā

The 1,000-year-old manuscript and the stories it tells

09 May 2015

One of the greatest treasures of Cambridge University Library is a Buddhist manuscript that was produced in Kathmandu exactly 1,000 years ago. The...

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HMS Beagle sketchbooks added to Cambridge Digital Library

05 Jan 2015

Tiny sketchbooks that bring to life one of the most famous voyages in history have been digitised and made available online for the first time.

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The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world

18 Jul 2013

It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century - and captivated the British public during an...

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