Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge

Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was an American scholar and author who graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1845 and published an account of his experiences in 1852. Volume 1 contains a detailed recollection of his daily life as a student at Cambridge.

First published in 1854, this is the first of a two-volume collection of historical sources relating to the University of Cambridge during the religious upheavals from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration. It covers the period 1570-90, and focuses on the role of the Puritans in the University Senate.

Charles Henry Cooper (1808-1866) was a Cambridge resident, town clerk, solicitor and local historian. His five-volume Annals of Cambridge tell the story of the town and the university from their beginnings to the Victorian era. Volume 1 covers the period up to 1546.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include William Wilberforce.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Charles Darwin.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Lord Acton.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Isaac Newton.

'Grace books' were the volumes in which scribes recorded decisions of the administration of the University of Cambridge. Grace Book B, Part 1, covering 1488 to 1511, lists individuals receiving degrees, as well as more general business including appointments and financial matters, and is a valuable resource for Tudor historians.

This compilation of records, charters, and statutes, many in the original Latin, was first published in 1852. Volume 2 includes the original charters for seven of the oldest colleges as well as the 1573 will of college founder Dr John Caius.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Christopher Green.

This flora, published in 1964, was the first comprehensive account of Cambridgeshire's plants since Babington's of 1860. Based on records to the end of 1962, it details 1509 species. These comprise 27 pteridophytes, 3 gymnosperms, 1223 angiosperms and 256 bryophytes. The following information is provided for each of the species: scientific name; well-known vernacular name, if any; first known record of the plant in the county; synonyms; habitat; notes on rare, difficult or interesting species; distribution by OS grid reference numbers. The introduction examines local topography, climate, the main geological areas and vegetation types, together with a history of botanical investigation in the county. Important localities are noted, highlighting key species that could then be found. Botanists, conservationists and naturalists will find this historic flora provides a valuable baseline for contemporary studies, including those focusing on biodiversity, extinction or the effects of climate change.

These 'letters to an undergraduate' were published in 1845, two years after the death of their author, the poet and missionary Thomas Whytehead, who felt strongly that new undergraduates should have a spiritual and moral guide to life in college as well as a history of university institutions and customs.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include A. A. Milne.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Thomas Sackville.

Published anonymously in 1827, this work offers a lively account of life at Cambridge University during a period of intense intellectual activity in British mathematics. Volume 1 covers Wright's first two years at Trinity College, capturing the triumphs and tribulations of undergraduate life at Cambridge.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include George Santayana.

'Grace books' were the volumes in which scribes recorded decisions of the administration of the University of Cambridge. Grace Book B, Part 2, covering 1511 to 1544, lists individuals receiving degrees, as well as more general business including appointments and financial matters, and is a valuable resource for Tudor historians.

This detailed report of the excavations of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge, was written by Girton alumnae Edith Hollingworth and Maureen O'Reilly. Based on notes left by Francis Jenkinson (1853-1923), who had supervised the excavations in the 1880s, this record of the discoveries was published in 1925.

Published in 1876, and written by the mathematician Isaac Todhunter (1820-84), this two-volume biography of one of Trinity College's most distinguished masters combines an account of Whewell's life with extracts from his personal letters. It includes correspondence with friends and colleagues including Sir John Herschel and Sir Charles Lyell.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Francis Galton.

The monumental Athenae Cantabrigienses is a collection of biographies of distinguished historical figures with connections to Cambridge University, compiled by a noted local historian. Volume 3, published posthumously in 1913, covers the years 1609-11 and contains additions and corrections to the first two volumes and an updated index.

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was founded in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the only Cambridge college established by the town's citizens. This comprehensive history, published in 1753, gives a full account of its establishment and describes the college's most distinguished members.

M. R. James' detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His description of King's College chapel's stained-glass windows and their symbolism was first published in 1899.

This history was published in 1921 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Newnham College, Cambridge. The mid-nineteenth-century idea of female education led to the small beginning of what became Newnham in 1871. Gardner then takes the story up to 1914 (with an epilogue on the war years).

Published in 1892, Middleton's catalogue describes the extensive collection of engraved gems and rings at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Middleton, who was a Professor of Fine Art, describes how these ancient gems were acquired, and outlines how they both exemplify important Greek sculpture and illustrate ancient myths and rituals.

John Willis Clark, academic and antiquarian, collected Cambridge literature of all periods and upon every subject. This catalogue, published in 1912, documents over ten thousand of Clark's books, pamphlets and pieces of print relating, directly or indirectly, to the university, town or county of Cambridge.

A transcript and translation of the royal charters issued to the borough of Cambridge between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Maitland lays stress on the considerable independence exercised by the medieval borough. The introduction explains the conventions of such charters, and explains how to interpret the information contained in them.

The third (1874) edition of The Student's Guide to the University of Cambridge, as well as giving information on 'the Studies and Examinations of the University', provides fascinating details of student daily life in mid-Victorian Cambridge.

This record, compiled by the then University Registrary, John Neville Keynes and published in 1914, was intended as a statement of the legal instruments which controlled the organisation and day-to-day running of Cambridge University. The form of government they embodied is still reflected in the statutes of today.

This volume, the last in Mullinger's landmark three-volume history, covers the political turmoil of the Civil War and the Restoration, ending symbolically with the death of the last of the Cambridge Platonists, the major philosophical movement of the seventeenth century.