Category Archives: Printing and Publishing History

Goodbyeee!

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, leaving others to ramble on (or, even better, write snappily and coherently) … Continue reading →

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A Child’s History of England

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

The paths of the Cambridge Library Collection and Charles Dickens have crossed several times – remarkable, given that Dickens is (of course) one of Britain’s greatest novelists, and we don’t publish much fiction. But of the short experimental (for us) … Continue reading →

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The Huguenots

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

I have mentioned before the industrious Samuel Smiles, Victorian believer in hard work and self-education (otherwise known as pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps) as the way to social improvement and financial prosperity. His 1867 work on the Huguenot communities … Continue reading →

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The Most Celebrated British Libraries

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

William Clarke (about whom little, as they say, is known – at any rate to the web) followed the early nineteenth-century trend for snappy Latin titles with an explanatory English subtitle for those who had not had Latin beaten into … Continue reading →

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More Notes of a Provincial Procrastinator

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

I have mentioned before my tendency to put off going to exhibitions on the ground that there will be plenty of time. In the autumn of 2014, for various reasons, some more compelling than others, I spent a lot of … Continue reading →

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