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Examples of negatives of photographs taken by Captain R.F. Scott on the 1911 British Antarctic Expedition

Sir Ranulph Fiennes steps in to help save Captain Scott’s polar negatives for the nation

07 Mar 2014

The Scott Polar Research Institute has launched an appeal to save Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ‘lost’ polar negatives. A last minute stay of...

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Race against time to save Captain Scott’s ‘lost’ photographic negatives

11 Feb 2014

An urgent appeal to save 113 photographic negatives taken by Captain Scott has been launched today (February 11) by the University of Cambridge’s...

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Bernard Ingham's note of warning to Margaret Thatcher two days before the 1983 General Election

Inside the landslide: Thatcher's personal papers for 1983 opened to the public

10 Oct 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s personal papers for 1983 – the year of her landslide election victory over Michael Foot’s Labour Party – have been opened to the...

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Detail from Richard Lyne's 1574 map of Cambridge.

Mapping the story of a very famous city

22 Aug 2013

A map dating from 1574 describes Cambridge as a very famous city. A copy of this exquisite document is one of the many thousands of treasures...

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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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Graphic showing worldwide Internet usage

Click to save the nation’s digital memory

05 Apr 2013

Billions of web pages from millions of websites, as well as public Facebook posts and tweets, will be preserved for time immemorial from tomorrow by...

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The virtual Chopin

01 Mar 2013

One of the greatest composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin, had an irrepressible creative imagination, and his music experienced continual...

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Oil painting of Varallo, Italy, by Samuel Butler, 1885

Bella Italia: an Englishman’s adventures abroad

11 Jan 2013

A Butler Day at St John’s College tomorrow (12 January) celebrates the many trips to Italy undertaken by the polymath Samuel Butler, author of...

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Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble deposits archive in University Library

11 Oct 2012

Leading author Dame Margaret Drabble has deposited her literary archive in Cambridge University Library.

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Isaac Newton's 'Waste Book'

University Library project helps preserve digital legacies

31 Jul 2012

'Store it safely', 'Explain it', 'Share it' and 'Start early' – four key signposts to follow for successfully managing and preserving your digital...

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Gurkha recruits awaiting inspection c.1950. The never-before-seen footage has been released to mark the launch of the Amateur Cinema Studies Network, http://amateurcinemastudies.org.

Candid camera

19 Jun 2012

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its...

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Sedgwick Club group photograph taken in Tan-y-bwlch, Wales, 1891

Hot baths extra – a glimpse into the making of Earth sciences

20 Apr 2012

A display of material from the Sedgwick Museum records archive, on view to the public from tomorrow, offers a rare glimpse into the daily lives of...

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