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New blog post: The Pontifex Collection, featuring first editions of Charles Dickens: magdlibs.com/2025/01/21/the-… #camlibs #speccolls
New Blog post about former Pepys Librarian Richard Ladborough, by our Graduate Trainee Librarian Connor: tinyurl.com/5n97jxsk #camlibs #speccolls
Following a period of closure preparing for refurbishment to the Pepys Building, Pepys Library books are now accessible under alternative arrangements for visiting academic researchers by appointment. 1/2
If you happen to be in Paris in the next few months, check out the Ribera exhibition at the Petit Palais - where a reproduction of the Pepys Library's huge Map of Rome dating from 1625 is being displayed. 1/2
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Join us for a special evening celebrating mountaineering legend Dorothy Pilley! Writer Dan Richards will share stories of her adventurous life and legacy as a pioneering figure in women’s alpinism. 🏔️ 19 Nov, 5:15 PM, Magdalene College. Free, all welcome! magd.cam.ac.uk/event/climbin…
The Pepys Library is now closed to the public for renovation works to the building. For further information about the project, please see the College website: magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys-restora… #camlibs #speccolls
New blog post to announce the cataloguing of prints collected by the Ferrar family of Little Gidding: magdlibs.com/2024/08/13/litt… #camlibs #speccolls
Check out our new online exhibition on the Play Quartos in the Pepys Library and Old Library. The exhibition is curated by our Graduate Trainee. magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/virtual… #speccolls
New blog post: Pepys and horses, including a nod to the #Olympics📷 with a look at some seventeenth-century vaulting. magdlibs.com/2024/07/26/pepy…… #speccolls #camlibs
Magdalene Libraries retweeted
Samuel Pepys wrote a lot about clothes in his famous diary but it stopped halfway through his life.
So historian @MarloAvidon studied Pepys’ private collection of fashion prints at @magdalenealumni. She discovered a guilty pleasure and much more.
cam.ac.uk/stories/samuel-pep…
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Engravings reveal Pepys' lifelong love of fashion bbc.in/4bOE96J
The Pepys Library makes headlines today, as Marlo Avidon's research sheds light on its extensive collection of fashion prints. We'll be reposting news stories throughout the day. 1/2
Samuel Pepys: diarist, administrator … budding fashionista dlvr.it/T9twWT
Avidon's article, "‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys" in the journal "The Seventeenth Century", can be read via this link: doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.202… 2/2
A lovely item! Magdalene also has one of these from the collection of books, papers and other treasures left to the Old Library by Ivor Richards and Dorothy Pilley.
Dorothy Pilley's stereoscopic viewer for tonight's book launch of Climbing Days. It's a folding one that's incredibly compact - thankfully we've also got some larger photos (and a couple of ice axes) on display. @canongatebooks @Dan_Zep
We are pleased to announce the cataloguing of the Old Library's Van de Weyer albums - a collection of portrait prints, correspondence and autographs collected by Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802-1874), former Prime Minister of Belgium. More info here: magdlibs.com/2024/06/25/jean…
New blog post by our Library Graduate Trainee: James Duport and Play Quartos in the Old Library. The blog highlights an early printed copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet, complete with handwritten stage directions. magdlibs.com/2024/06/11/jame… #camlibs #speccolls