Digitising our Journals

Working in collaboration with the Bodleian Library,  the Union Library has published The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate Journal, a series of 19th century student publications that cover all aspects of life in Oxford and Cambridge: The town, the gown, and, of course, the Union. In fact, the Union was as newsworthy then as it is now, regularly appearing in the weekly pages. Plus ça change! 

These journals are unique to the Union Library and are not found to such an extent anywhere else in the world. As part of the Union’s educational mission, we have made these publicly available and have put them under a CC0 licence: Researchers may use this excellent new resource in their studies, teachers can use them for primary sources, and interested members of the public can browse at their leisure.  

A special thanks goes to the hard work of the Union’s fantastic team of Librarians: The project was carried out on-time and on-budget, with new skills learned along the way. 

You can find the collection on Digital Bodleian. For more information on the Union’s heritage, including digitised terms cards dating back to the 1940s, please visit our Union Library and Archives website. For latest updates and snippets from our collections, be sure to follow the Library and Archives Instagram page (keep an eye out for a video of me exploring the epic poem that emerged from a schism in the Union during the 19th century!). 

I look forward to seeing you in the library soon! 

Tom Corrick 

Librarian-in-Charge