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Dr Jessica Gardner

Cambridge reveals identity of new ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Librarian

09 Dec 2016

Dr Jessica Gardner has been revealed as the new Librarian of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library – becoming the second female in the history of the...

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Lines of Thought: Telling the Story of History

16 Sep 2016

Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy , and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our final...

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Lines of Thought: Understanding Anatomy

09 Sep 2016

A hand-coloured copy of Vesalius’ 1543 Epitome – one of the most influential works in western medicine – and the first written record of a dissection...

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Charles Darwin

Lines of Thought: From Darwin to DNA

29 Jul 2016

Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in...

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Lines of Thought: Communicating Faith

27 May 2016

Some of the world’s most important religious texts are currently on display in Cambridge as part of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library’s 600th anniversary...

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World first as 3,000-year-old Chinese oracle bones go 3D

21 Mar 2016

A 3000-year-old ox bone - inscribed with the earliest-known example of Chinese writing - has become the world's first 'oracle bone' to be scanned and...

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