An exhibition tracing the development of medieval literature in French, and the manuscript culture through which it was conveyed across Europe and beyond.

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An exhibition tracing the composition of John Riley’s poem Czargrad, from early notebook jottings through manuscript and typescript drafts to the first appearances in print.

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An exhibition of different ways in which colour was printed in books in Tudor England, resulting from the research of 2012-13 Munby Fellow of Bibliography Dr Elizabeth Upper.

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An exhibition of nineteenth-century Spanish and English pamphlets and broadsides illustrating wrongdoing, crime and retribution; why did people behave badly, and how did others find out what they had been up to? The display included tales of bandits, pirates, murderesses, poisoners and many more malefactors in highly (and gruesomely) illustrated detail.

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A virtual exhibition celebrating the tercentenary of the birth of Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713), author most famously of The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. His works have inspired numerous imitations and parodies, and illustrations by Hogarth, Cruikshank and many others.

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A display of early illustrated medical books from the collection of the distinguished surgeon and scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887–1982), acquired by Cambridge University Library in 1982.

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For older exhibitions at Cambridge Unversity Library, see our Previous exhibitions page.