was given to the flat concrete roof over the book stacks. Campaign to rename the library In November 2021, a petition calling on the University of Cambridge to change the name of the library to the History Faculty Library has attracted more than 500 signatures. Three university societies have backed the petition which is calling on the university's history department to rename the Seeley Historical Library because its current name celebrates John Robert Seeley, a Cambridge historian “known for his justification of the British Empire". At Christ’s College where Seeley studied and was a tutor, the former "Seeley History Society" has been renamed "Christ’s College History Society". Gallery References External links Seeley Library website Library catalogue Libraries of the University of Cambridge Institutions in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge History resources Grade II listed buildings in Cambridgeshire