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Bringing Cambridge University Libraries to you

04 Jun 2020

We anticipate that by July 6, the University Library will begin to provide limited services for students and staff to pick up books ordered online.

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Maori paddles collected on Captain Cook's first voyage

Captain Cook’s Maori paddles: an artefact of encounter

22 May 2013

Maori paddles presented to Captain Cook’s crew on their first voyage of discovery capture the spirit of a first encounter between two cultures.

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Left to right: Simon Goldhill and John Rink

Forging connections: digital humanities in Cambridge and beyond

01 May 2013

To launch our month-long focus on digital humanities research, Professor John Rink and Professor Simon Goldhill – Co-Directors of Cambridge’s Digital...

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Crime and punishment: a 19th-century love affair

30 Apr 2013

The violence of everyday life in 19th-century Europe – including murder most foul, handsome bandits, wicked women and huge crowds at executions – is...

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Mongolian life stories database launched online

05 Mar 2013

An online database launched today, 5 March, provides an oral history of Mongolia, as told by 600 Mongolian citizens who look back over their lives...

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Fungi collected for the Herbarium by Charles Darwin, found stored in a sheet of newspaper from 1828

Secrets of the plant kingdom uncovered after over a century in storage

26 Sep 2012

The relocation of the Herbarium’s one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University’s state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is...

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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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Katy Barrett

From pamphlet to pixel: the humanities in transition

14 Mar 2012

The humanities have been quick to embrace the potential of computer technology but universities have been reluctant to accept digital projects as...

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Sanskrit manuscript dating from 997 AD

Powerful words

09 Nov 2011

Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.

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Books from Darwin's personal library

Darwin’s personal library put online

23 Jun 2011

Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first...

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Pliegos sueltos Diego Corrientes (S743.1.c.8.2)

Read all about it!

08 Mar 2011

A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...

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Thorny devil (Moloch horridus) at Great Central Road (WA) 2006

Enter the Map of Life and meet a thorny devil

03 Mar 2011

A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus and how animals separated by millions of years can evolve in the same...

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