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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Two Charles Darwin notebooks, believed to be worth millions of pounds, have been reported stolen from Cambridge University Library 20 years after they were last seen. One of them contains Darwin's ...

Several historical treasures from Cambridge University Library (UL) have been put on display online. The UL has become the first institution from the University of Cambridge to team up with Google ...

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, ...

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 ...

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’ ...