The University of Cambridge library is asking lecturers to flag any books which may be deemed 'problematic' or offensive - but critics have slammed the move as 'sinister'. One of the colleges, ...
The Cambridge University Library has opened an exhibition of banned books from its Tower Collection, some of which are seeing the light of day for the first time in decades. The library’s 17-story ...
Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen. The small leather-bound books are worth many millions of ...
Cambridge, UK – It’s hard to believe this long, dark basement room at Cambridge University Library holds thousands of years of heady thought from religion to physics, anatomy to evolution. Peer ...
Two notebooks written by the famed British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1837 and missing for years may have been stolen from the Cambridge University Library, according to curators who launched a ...
Page proofs of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling have been given to Cambridge University Library, where they join his manuscript of the poem If, which was donated by the author himself. The proofs ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...
This is the librarian in charge of Cambridge University Library when two priceless notebooks belonging to scientist Charles Darwin went missing 20 years ago. Peter Fox was head of the library when the ...
Cambridge University is building a new library storage facility in Ely after running out of space to house more than eight million books and manuscripts. Work on a £17.1 million off-site storage ...
A 19th Century miniature "travelling library" containing 9cm-long (3.5in) French books has been added to a university collection. Travelling libraries became popular during the age of horse-drawn ...
A photographic collection of more than 200 "hidden" images that offer a "window on to a very different but significant time" for Cambridge University Library (UL) have been uncovered. The pictures, ...