Faculty of English

Preparing your MPhil assigments for submission: style, format, referencing An introduction to the wonders of MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) – we’ll give you a serious head start on formatting your work, referencing, layout, and everything else you’ll need to prepare your MPhil work for submission. Week 7, book now.

It’s week three of Michaelmas, and that means the EFL How to read ten books in an hour workshops are back! We’ll cover how to find what to read, how to find time to read it, and how to read it faster. As well as lots of opportunity for discussion of what you’ve found difficult […]

How to use the UL as an English student Tours Tuesday-Thursday this week – 11am & 2pm. Book on the EFL website.

No more hold requests; we’re switching to recalls. You can place a recall on a book via iDiscover. If your book is recalled you can’t renew it, but you’ll have three days to return it, or seven if you’re a postgrad or Senior Faculty. Borrowing limits for all borrowers: 12 items (books or DVDs). All […]

A big ‘hello’ from library staff to all freshers and new grads. We’re looking forward to meeting you at inductions and tours this week.

New MPhils & PhDs! Grad tours are 4pm everyday this week Meet at the library desk, no need to sign-up.

We’re starting our ‘hellos’ nice and early! If you’ve found your way here take a look at our ‘Welcome’ page.

We’re looking for feedback from students to help us improve iDiscover. However you use it, and however much you use it, we’re interested in what you have to say! If you’re in Cambridge on Tuesday 25th of July and have a spare 30 minutes drop-in to the IT Suite between 14:00 – 16:00. The session […]

We’re open 9:30am – 5pm weekdays (last admission 4:40pm). Closed Saturday & Sunday. When the library is closed you can return books via the Sidgbox outside book dropbox.

Get started with Zotero now and save yourself heaps of time and effort at hand-in. Ideal if you’re starting Part II and want a stress-free way to keep track of your dissertation references. Zotero is an app that works in your web-browser to save and store reference information for books, articles, etc. so that you […]