books

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When is a book not a book?

10 Oct 2016

̽��ֱ��e-book has made continued inroads into the publishing world but the printed book has defied predictions of its death. Research by Professor John...

Books from the Thackeray Collection, Credit: King's College Library

From Shakespeare to Austen: King’s College celebrates the Thackeray Collection of rare books

18 Jun 2016

A generous award will allow King’s College to catalogue and conserve an important part of an outstanding collection of rare books given to the...

̽��ֱ��8th Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches

19 Oct 2015

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015 launches today with over 250 events exploring arts, society and culture.

̽��ֱ��frontispiece of Ned Ward's Vulgus Brittanicus (1710)

On the eve of the Booker Prize: a sideways look at the literary puff

12 Oct 2015

A literary puff is the promotional blurb that appears on book jackets and publishers’ press releases. Dr Ross Wilson, Faculty of English, discusses...

A plan of Mexico City, taken from the 16th-century Civitates orbis terrarum, the world’s first atlas to include city plans

A kingly gift: Royal Library goes on display in Cambridge

02 Oct 2015

An exhibition celebrating King George I’s gift of 30,000 books and manuscripts to Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library - including the celebrated 8th-century...

Illustration of Peter Rabbit from ̽��ֱ��Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Bunnies in children’s books: from Alice in Wonderland to Peter Rabbit

30 Sep 2015

̽��ֱ��Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, R is for...

Image from the Boy's book of British battles

Waterloo: the first draft of history

30 Apr 2015

A letter written from the body-strewn battlefield at Waterloo, an invasion map of the UK, and a book from Napoleon’s personal library in exile will...

Vesalius undertaking a dissection, in the hand-coloured frontispiece to his 'Epitome' (1543), Credit: Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and the books that made the father of anatomy

17 Jul 2014

Born 500 years ago, Andreas Vesalius has iconic status in the history of science. Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library holds several copies of the remarkable...

‘Writing is but another form of conversation’: Laurence Sterne at 300

23 Nov 2013

̽��ֱ��Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman turned a Yorkshire clergyman into a literary celebrity. Three hundred years after his birth on 24...