Back a Book

The Pepys Library and the Historic collections of Magdalene College have launched a new fundraising initiative to help conserve and repair our books and manuscripts called Back a Book. This will offer donors the chance to see how their financial support can help individual items in our libraries, with the expert help of the Cambridge Colleges’ Conservation Consortium.

The Back a Book initiative has been inspired by the generosity of our Friends of the Pepys Library and Historic Collections. The Friends have supported some recent purchases for the libraries, such as the new storage cases for the Old Library’s Ferrar papers and prints, and new curtains for the Pepys Library. However, you need not be part of the Friends to support the Back a Book initiative: it is open to all who have an interest in supporting the libraries’ work.

Back a Book was launched at our most recent Friends event and has had immediate success, with four of our items for July 2018-June 2019 already being supported. Items which are still awaiting support are now on our dedicated Back a Book webpage, with further details about the initiative available.