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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 of Charles Darwin's notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous "Tree of Life" sketch have been returned anonymously after going missing for 21 years, Cambridge ...

Notebooks written by Charles Darwin, which were mysteriously returned to Cambridge University Library after going missing for 20 years, are going on public display. They include his famous Tree of ...

Book worms, and lovers of the arcane, your dream job may just be round the corner. If you fancy spending your day among the pages of literary excellency, and volumes from the country's finest minds, ...

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 ...