Mary Burgess
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Mary Burgess
@cambliblife.bsky.social
Local history author and researcher. Local Studies Librarian for Cambridgeshire Libraries - usually found in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Bit deaf 🦻. She/they.
I get this doing tours of our collection for kids and you have to explain what a photographic negative is because none of them have any idea.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Petersfield, rough? The posh end of Mill Road?
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yeah, that would be lovely
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Never have got the hang of making tablet. I'm making sure I never buy myself a sugar thermometer as otherwise I'd do nothing but make more of the stuff!
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now do one on the differences between a library and an archive!
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Here's ours - bought for us by Cambridge University Library so I don't know where from I'm afraid.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Yeah, you *can* open ours without, but it's not much fun (and ours is on wheels so if you're not careful you shove the whole thing over)
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We've got a big suction cup handle for one of our glass cases too - always good fun getting it open and shut.
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Yes. I want it boiling ASAP and the kettle is fastest
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Made it as far as Peckover House - well worth a look round if you're in the area
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It does. You want "The university mails of Oxford and Cambridge, 1490-1900 : early letters, college stamps and Victorian security marks" by Sigee. We've got a copy here in the Cambridgeshire Collection. I'm sure you could find a copy in Oxford somewhere.
October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM