New blog post by our Library Graduate Trainee: James Duport and Play Quartos in the Old Library. The blog highlights an early printed copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet, complete with handwritten stage directions. magdlibs.com/2024/06/11/jam… #camlibs #speccolls

A lovely item! Magdalene also has one of these from the collection of books, papers and other treasures left to the Old Library by Ivor Richards and Dorothy Pilley.

Engravings reveal Pepys' lifelong love of fashion bbc.in/4bOE96J

Samuel Pepys wrote a lot about clothes in his famous diary but it stopped halfway through his life. So historian Marlo Avidon studied Pepys’ private collection of fashion prints at Magdalene College. She discovered a guilty pleasure and much more. cam.ac.uk/stories/samuel…

New blog post: Pepys and horses, including a nod to the #Olympics📷 with a look at some seventeenth-century vaulting. magdlibs.com/2024/07/26/pep…… #speccolls #camlibs

Check out our new online exhibition on the Play Quartos in the Pepys Library and Old Library. The exhibition is curated by our Graduate Trainee. magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/virtual-… #speccolls

New blog post to announce the cataloguing of prints collected by the Ferrar family of Little Gidding: magdlibs.com/2024/08/13/lit… #camlibs #speccolls

The Pepys Library is now closed to the public for renovation works to the building. For further information about the project, please see the College website: magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys-restorat… #camlibs #speccolls

Join us for a special evening celebrating mountaineering legend Dorothy Pilley! Writer Dan Richards will share stories of her adventurous life and legacy as a pioneering figure in women’s alpinism. 🏔️ 19 Nov, 5:15 PM, Magdalene College. Free, all welcome! magd.cam.ac.uk/event/climbing…

New Blog post about former Pepys Librarian Richard Ladborough, by our Graduate Trainee Librarian Connor: tinyurl.com/5n97jxsk #camlibs #speccolls

New blog post: The Pontifex Collection, featuring first editions of Charles Dickens: magdlibs.com/2025/01/21/the… #camlibs #speccolls