Primary Sources: Print

Primary Sources

Primary sources are original materials which provide first-hand accounts of events, original research, discoveries or ideas. They are created by people who experienced the events or conditions written about and their accounts have not been filtered through interpretation by others. Examples include news reports, diaries, letters, photographs and artwork.

Print Primary Sources

The Print Primary Sources are on the first floor of the library in Cambridge.  Follow signage to the journals.

Feel free to handle the primary sources, even those that look a bit fragile! View in the library only but you can photocopy pages or scan items to your email for free.

Print Sources

Popular Press

Picture Post | The llustrated London News | Seaside Resorts: The Daily Graphic Holiday Number | The Spectator | The Vote: The Organ of the Women’s Freedom League |
Various Bound Newspapers including: Victoria’s Golden Jubilee | Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee | Victoria’s Death |

Literature: Facsimilies and Letters

The First Folio of Shakespeare | The Letters of Charlotte Bronte | Geoffrey Chaucer: the works 1532 | The George Eliot Letters |

Arts: Maps, Posters and Miscellany

Printing Art | The complete Little Nemo, 1905-1909 | Divertissement [Georges Rouault] | The Saturday Book | The Soviet Political Poster: 1917-1980 | One Hundred Years of Posters | One Hundred Years Of Magic Posters | Theatrum Orbis [Historic Colour Maps] | Camden’s Wales, 1729 | Camden’s Britannia, 1695 |

List of items in print collection