John Milton and a page from Holinshed's Chronicles preserving Milton's censorship of a lewd anecdote

John Milton's notes identified in an influential book he once owned

15 May 2024

John Milton鈥檚 handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. 探花直播discovery, made by a team including Cambridge's Prof. Jason Scott-Warren, includes a rare example of prudish censorship.

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Library life in the time of COVID

17 November 2020

What happens when you are a librarian without a library? This is exactly what happened with husband and wife Veronica Phillips, Assistant Librarian at the 探花直播 of Cambridge Medical Library, and Matthias Ammon, Research Support Librarian at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library. Here they discuss their experience of living, and working, through the coronavirus pandemic.聽聽

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A baker, a plumber, and a... swan taker

10 August 2020

Cambridge 探花直播 Library's joint project with the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, continues to reveal the secrets of crime and punishment in the Isle of Ely

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One million and counting

04 February 2020

A children鈥檚 book by Sandi Toksvig is the one millionth item to take its place in the聽 探花直播 Library鈥檚 Ely storage facility.聽

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