Cambridge Saffron presents the findings of a year-long project to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university

Image credit: Mary Delany, 1776, collage of coloured papers on black ink background © The Trustees of the British Museum.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/saffron

The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university.

Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice Wickenden, now at Edinburgh University, were the researchers. 

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