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Saved from the Nazis in 1938: Schnitzler archive to remain in Cambridge

28 October 2015

Saved from destruction by the Nazis and smuggled in secret to Cambridge, the rescue of author Arthur Schnitzler’s archive is as dramatic as any fiction he committed to paper. Now, more than 75 years after it was spirited out of Austria under the noses of Nazis intent on burning and destroying Jewish cultural works, the...

Black History Month: African photographs digitised and preserved for generations thanks to legacy donation to Library

9 October 2015

To mark Black History Month, Cambridge University Library is promoting its virtual Royal Commonwealth Society collection which was launched on the Cambridge Digital Library over the summer. Featuring items held in the University Library’s Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) Library , this digital collection contains a...