Past Research
Details of past research projects involving Cambridge University Library
Past research projects
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project
A project to conserve, catalogue and digitise medieval and early Modern Greek manuscripts in the University Libraries collections.
Darwin Correspondence project
A project to transcribe and provide digital access to over 15,000 letters written and received by Charles Darwin
Archive of Tomorrow
A collaborative web-archiving project to curate a target collection of 3,000 websites on 'Heath and Misinformation'.
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Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts
A project to make Cambridge University Library's collection of fragments of medieval manuscripts visible and more accessible to researchers, through digitisation, re-housing and cataloguing the collection.
Walking with Constable
This project uses digital technologies to take Constable prints locked in a museum back into the landscape which made them, which represents them, and of which they are part.
Re-entangling the Visual Archive
The project addressed inequalities of access to archives and encouraged confident, innovative and creative engagements with challenging collections.
Digital Approaches to the Capture and Analysis of Watermarks
This project investigates digital humanities approaches to the extraction and analysis of watermark images, and their research potential in grouping and dating manuscripts, using Isaac Newton manuscripts as a test case.
France and the Second World War: The Cambridge Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection (1944-1946)
Using the CUL’s Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, this project explores France during the Second World War, the Liberation and the immediate post-war period.
Documenting the role of UK science in the Covid-19 pandemic
This project investigates what would be needed to implement a national, collaborative programme to collect, preserve and provide access to the UK's scientific record of Covid-19.
Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) southern African collections at Cambridge University Library
The project to consider and develop approaches to co-production and co-curation using the holdings of the RCS relating to southern Africa.
Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries
A project to digitise, catalogue and conserve over 180 medieval manuscripts, and to transcribe the more than 8,000 unpublished medical recipes that they contain. This project is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Find out about more previous research projects on the Special collections pages.
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Collection items featured:
Headline image: Greek gospel book CUL MS Dd.9.69 f. 139r.
Image of Darwin CUL DAR 225: 1

