Seminal works left in pink gift bag with ‘happy Easter’ note for librarian after going missing in 2001 The plot was worthy of a Dan Brown thriller – two Charles Darwin manuscripts worth 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exhibition to reveal truth about books hidden in 17-storey tower said to include pornography To avoid disappointment, an exhibition opening this week at the Cambridge University library should carry ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Book worms, and lovers of the arcane, your dream job may just be round the corner. If you fancy spending your day among the pages of literary excellency, and volumes from the country's finest minds, ...

Two Charles Darwin manuscripts have been reported as stolen from Cambridge University Library two decades after they were last seen. Staff believed that the precious items had been ‘mis-shelved’ ...