The impact of women at Cambridge is incalculable. In 1869, Girton College became the first women’s college at Cambridge, and the first in Britain, to offer residential higher education for women. But Cambridge University did not grant degrees to women until the late 1940s, the last British University to do so. In this...

Cambridge University Library's Special Collections recognised with Arts Council England Designation.

Unique handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute and in relative obscurity despite royal patronage – have been saved for future generations by Cambridge University Library. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ForgottenPoet

Centuries-old annotations by Gabriel Harvey added to University Library collections