This Buttercup looks so much like a pressed flower found in a book, but is actually an example of ‘nature printing’ from original plant specimens. From Cambridge University Library’s wonderful copy of Johann Hieronymus Kniphof’s ‘Botanica in originali seu herbarium vivum’ (1757-64). S370.a.75.1-4 💚

So lovely to be included on this map. Farrago Books #MurderbytheBook Cambridge University Library

Really happy today that the ERC have funded our research on convergent evolution of floral patterning. Thanks to lab members who helped develop these ideas, to lovely colleagues ⁦Department of Plant Sciences⁩ for support and to ⁦Cam Botanic Garden⁩ for inspiration! cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

An honour for Cambridge University Library to host Dr. Dames Hesburgh Libraries today - talking digital scholarship, conservation, and exhibitions, and all things partnership between St Edmund's College, Cambridge and University of Notre Dame. Huge thanks to Suzanne Paul Kristine Rose-Beers Emily Dourish and Chris B. Let’s keep talking…

Great to have participants in the Cambridge Digital Humanities data school here today looking at collections involved in recent digital projects & CambridgeDigitalLib. The 7thC Codex Zacynthius palimpsest; drawings by Richarda & Cristabel Airy; imagery of John Baskerville’s punches (@Baskerville1707).

Cambridge has been an inspiration for many very different crime writers. Which classics do you love?

For more inspiration, check out our latest exhibition, Murder by the Book. Tickets are FREE and pre-booking is essential: lib.cam.ac.uk/murderbythebook

Thank you Professor Peter Lucas Wolfson College for the generous acknowledgement to Cambridge University Library staff in your new book, Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message’, especially for your thanks for all the ‘marvellous’ support during the pandemic. Hear hear!

Such a gorgeous week in Cambridge University Library life!

🌟 We're delighted to announce that Cambridge University has received a generous investment of £3m/year from Research England to support us and eight other museums. This will facilitate award-winning exhibitions, collections-based research and learning programmes.
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Grateful to Research England for our share of the HEMG award to the Cambridge University University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge Collections Connections Communities. Including £1.73 million to the Cam Botanic Garden, and £190k to the Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE). This will bring our amazing botanical collections to ever broader audiences Department of Plant Sciences

Many many thanks Sloan Foundation for your support over many years for the incredible Darwin Correspondence Project MyDearDarwin Cambridge University Library! A fantastic US-UK endeavour to edit ALL Darwin’s letters and make them publicly available online for all.

Did Darwin ever doubt his own theories? What did he really think about women? Is dialogue part of the scientific process? The Darwin Correspondence Project MyDearDarwin spent 50 yrs answering these qs and more. Read about it here:
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This event 'Indecent & Obscene: 40 Years Since Operation Tiger' promises to be fab. Taking place online Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive & Blog on 25th April with Sigrid Nielsen, Sarah Pyke &
Graham McKerrow 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🚩 Info here tickettailor.com/events/lavende…

All welcome on April 15 as we explore the history in 1610 between The Stationers' Company and Bodleian Libraries and how collecting everything and modern legal deposit started. Stellar panel of speakers stationers.org/events/detail/…

Received fantastic training last Friday from my esteemed colleague Kristine Rose-Beers, Head of Conservation and Heritage at Cambridge University Library, on how to handle and measure oracle bones carefully in a super professional way. So much to learn from colleagues with various expertise in our library.

Congratulations to Saul Nassé!! Great appointment for The National Archives! I’ve had the pleasure of working with Saul in recent years through Cambridge University and I’m so pleased at this news!

We are pleased to announce that Saul Nassé has been appointed as our new Chief Executive and Keeper and will start end of July.

He takes over from Dr Jeff James who has led The National Archives successfully since 2014.

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En route to give the 2024 Bernard H. Breslauer Lecture for ⁦The American Trust for the British Library⁩, my topic: ‘What is a library?’, looking at the place of a library in the age of book bans, AI, cyberattacks and the defunding of public libraries. atbl.us/the-bernard-h-…

Lovely piece in today's The Times and The Sunday Times by Susie Goldsbrough unpacking why 1929 was such a massive year in #CrimeFiction - and a plug/link to book free tickets for the fabulous #MurderByTheBook exhibition @theul
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Calling all armchair detectives!

This World Book Night (23 April) join Cambridge University Library for a KILLER evening of mystery-solving, crime fiction, live jazz and cocktails! 7.30-10pm.
lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/world-bo…