10:00am-4:00pm on Saturday 29 March
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St John's College, The Old Library, St John's Street, CB2 1TP
Two hundred years ago, the poet and MP William Stewart Rose published Anecdotes of Monkeys, a collection of supposedly true stories of simian theft, deceit and insobriety whereby he asks if humankind is ‘but a better breed of monkey’. St John’s College (where Rose was a student) invites you to an exploration of humanity’s long reckoning with the animal kingdom, in the beautiful surroundings of the 17th-century Old Library. Drawing from the Library’s collections of manuscripts, rare printed books and personal papers, and spanning several centuries, exhibits include medieval illustrations, a sheep brand, a jar of scorpions, and a recently acquired first edition of George Stubbs’s The Anatomy of the Horse.
Access to the Old Library is via stairs only.
