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What's On: 30 APRIL 2013 - 23 DECEMBER 2013 (CLOSED 26 AUGUST); Exhibition: Read all about it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the Long Nineteenth Century; 23 MAY 2013 at 17:00; Talk and poetry reading by Peter Scupham [Friends of Cambridge University Library]; 28 MAY 2013 from 11:00 to 12:30; Drop-in Session: Dissertation and Research Help [Research Skills Programme]; 4 JUNE 2013 from 11:00 to 12:30; Drop-in Session: Dissertation and Research Help [Research Skills Programme]; 4 JUNE 2013 from 14:30 to 16:30; Course: Be The Boss of Your Hard Drive - Working with Digital Data [Research Skills Programme]; 11 JUNE 2013 from 11:00 to 12:30; Drop-in Session: Dissertation and Research Help [Research Skills Programme]; For more events, please see the Library diary

In the Spotlight: ‘My dear old friend’: Darwin the man revealed as 40-year correspondence published online
The 40-year friendship of Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker, the most significant and scientifically important of Darwin’s life, can now be explored by anyone in the world with access to the Internet

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News: 30th April 2013
Crime and punishment: a 19th-century love affair

Read all about it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the Long Nineteenth Century exhibition opens free to the public on April 30 and reveals a catalogue of criminality from the Library’s remarkable collections of books, broadsides, penny dreadfuls and cheap, mass-produced ephemera.
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