Online exhibitions

As well as exhibitions taking place in the Library and Archive Centre throughout the year, a range of online exhibitions and illustrated blogs have been developed so you can explore the collections from afar. Simply follow the links below.

From the Library:

LOOKBOOK: Fashions & fads in historical book design

'What strange tricks': Fools, Hoaxes, Pranks and Jokes (Cambridge Festival 2023) 

Mathematics and mathematicians at St John's : an exhibition to mark the centenary of the Adams Society

From Babel to the Babel Fish: Translation, Transmission and the Technology of Language (Open Cambridge 2022)

Space and Time: An Early Modern Tour

'Weigh me the fire': The Elements of an Old Library (Cambridge Festival 2022)

Women and their Books

The Huguenots: The Story of the French Reformation

Visions of the End: Selected Apocalypses from the Library

Slavery and Abolition: Collections Uncovered (Cambridge Festival 2021)

Barboy, Scholar, Poet, Spy: The party-colour'd life of Matthew Prior

Wild World: Visual Representation of Animals in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Wordsworth at 250

Special Collections Spotlight

Samuel Butler Project exhibitions and recordings

Women & St John's College

From the Archives:

Virtual Exhibitions

St John's Top 5

Interesting Johnians

Off the Shelf