Library News
Library opening hours, Easter Term 2013
25 Apr 2013
Our opening hours this term have been extended! Monday - Friday 9.00am - 11.00pm Saturday & Sunday 10.00am - 11.00pm Except Saturday 15 June: 10.00am - 6.00pm Chapel Wing Reading Room The reading room on the top... Read more
Library colour printer
23 Jan 2013
The Library now has a colour printer! To print in colour, select Lib_2_Col from the list of printers. Colour printing costs 15p for a single-sided sheet and 30p for a double-sided... Read more
Accessing electronic resources (e.g. e-j…
28 Nov 2012
If you are planning to use electronic resources (e.g. electronic journals) while away from Cambridge, please make sure before you leave that you know the correct passwords. Many (but not all)... Read more
Littler Reading Room opening hours
Monday to Friday
9.15am - 1.00pm
2.00pm - 4.45pm
Closed at weekends, Christmas, Easter, and for 2 weeks in the summer
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
Hannah Westall
Archivist
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FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Jenny Blackhurst
Assistant Librarian
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A subject guide to the Archive
Our archival collections offer a rich resource for research in many areas and in several disciplines. This subject guide is a starting point for researchers; it is not a comprehensive list.
For more information about our collections please see our A guide to the Archive webpage.
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Subject |
Collection (with links to the catalogues on the Janus website, where available) |
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Admission of women to the University of Cambridge |
College records |
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Education of girls (including schools and schooling) |
Papers of Emily Davies; Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes; College records |
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Employment of women |
Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes; Papers of the Society for Promoting the Training of Women |
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Education of women (particularly higher education) |
Papers of Emily Davies; Papers of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon; Papers of Dorothy Needham, which include papers relating to the foundation of Lucy Cavendish College; College records |
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History, teaching of |
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Land economy (particularly inter-war and World War II) |
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Librarianship |
Papers of Ethel Fegan; Papers of Eugenie Strong; College records |
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Social equality |
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Victorian women poets |
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Women artists |
Papers of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon; Blackburn collection; College records |
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Women in journalism |
Papers of Emily Davies; Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes; Papers of Charlotte Yonge |
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Women in medicine |
Papers of Emily Davies; College records |
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Women's suffrage |
Papers of Emily Davies; Papers of Agnes Lake; Papers of Beatrice and Edith Clayton Pepper; Papers of Marion Wallace-Dunlop; Papers of Nellie Crocker |
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Women in science |
Papers of Dorothy Needham; Papers of Helen Megaw; College Records |
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Women gardeners |
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Women historians |
Papers of Helen Cam; Papers of Eileen Power; College records |
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Women in politics |