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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 20h

New term, new academic year. How are you all settling in? 🍂

To make life easier, we’ve created a guide for new and returning University of Cambridge students, including online resources, top tips, skills training, tours, collections, and what’s new this term.

Read it now: https://loom.ly/EmsWxrs

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 20h

A little history of publishing tidbit for our early english text enthusiasts.

In the EFL you can find subjects such as manuscripts, bibliography, palaeography, history of publishing, and digital humanities all in the Y section.

(Y, you ask? We do not need to ask Y you would want to go there.😁📖📚)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21h

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 1d

👋Oh, hello #OpenAccess @universitypress.cambridge.org text challenging #EarlyModern historical gender assumptions through primary source materials.📖

We've been waiting for you. ❤️

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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The RSC @the-rsc.bsky.social · 1d

We were very sorry to hear of the recent death of the celebrated director Ian Judge, who directed many shows at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Barbican and on tour. He will be sadly missed.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Ian Judge obituary

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

www.theguardian.com

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 1d

📚📖🐲🫖We know what it means when dragons start mysteriously appearing around the EFL again....

IT'S THE START OF TERM!

Welcome back to the English Faculty Library from all the staff (and our hoard of origami monsters). 📚📖🐲🫖

#HereBeDragons
#CambridgeLife
#LibrarySky
#ShakespeareRoom

Purple origami dragon sitting on a computer desk

Pink origami dragon sitting on a wooden desk

Green origami dragon sitting on a wooden desk

8 origami dragons in different colours and patterns sitting on a bookshelf in the EFL Shakespeare Room

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 1d

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!

We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!

[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Your reminder that there's only 1 WEEK left to get your #IMC2026 bursary application submitted.⏰

You can begin or resume your application, as well as find out more information on the process, at the following link: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/

#IMC2026 #MedievalSky #Medieval #Skystorians

Bursaries and Awards | International Medieval Congress

Bursary Applications for IMC 2026 are now open! Read below to apply.

www.imc.leeds.ac.uk

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 4d

🥪 Our Research Practice Seminars are back!

Join us in exploring some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice

Thursdays from 12-2pm, a sandwich lunch is provided
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research-practice-seminars/

Research Practice Seminar - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 8d

Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 10d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 10d

📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26

Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social

Apply by 1 October 2025
buff.ly/tQABBo4

Quentin Skinner Lectureship - CRASSH

A Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 10d

We're flying the flag of The Bahamas for the 6th year in a row to celebrate the start of Black History Month, commemorating our first Black student A.F. Adderley (1912, Law) & over a century of Black history at Catz ever since. See what's planned at caths.cam.ac.uk/bhm-...

The flag of The Bahamas flying above St Catharine's College

Publicity for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' event on 9 October

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 11d

Hamlet reports his cleverness - and ruthlessness
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
This week's pics are all of @nationaltheatre.org.uk Hamlets. Here, a publicity image from 1989: Ian Charleson (1949-1990), whose performance weeks before his death from AIDS is still recalled with awe & deep love

A black and white photograph, head and shoulders, of a young man resting his head on his left hand, lit from his left, with the right side of his face in shadows. His hair is tousled.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 17d

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

A group of students sat at a table examining documents and books from the Library's collection.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 14d

#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN

Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs

Job Posting I-390/25: Research Associate - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin

Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature / History and Philosophy of Modern Science

www.jobs.tu-berlin.de

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15d

‘Although she is now routinely mentioned in histories of modernist Paris in the 1920s, only Hemingway seemed to read her with any understanding – Eliot and Joyce and Woolf had no idea what to make of her.’

Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain

We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...

www.lrb.co.uk

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 15d

A Shorter Ulysses, Anthony Burgess’s companion piece to his Shorter Finnegans Wake, is out on 16 October 2025. In this week’s newsletter, we introduce the book and reveal the origins of the manuscript. Pre-order link within.

Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/introducin...

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 15d

🎭🌻✒️Open Access AND could be used for thoughtful reflection on the body for our undergraduate Tragedy paper?

Yes, we will be reading this, please and thank you. 🎭🌻✒️

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 15d

My colleagues @horusofnekhen.bsky.social, @tibg1312.bsky.social, and I wrote a state-of-the-field-type article about disability in antiquity that was recently published and is open access. This article just gives a brief history of the subfield, with a discussion of future directions.

DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core

DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY

resolve.cambridge.org

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 23d

📣 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

Join our vibrant academic community as a salaried Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow to carry out your independent research in 2026-27

Learn more about the application process and apply by 24 Oct 2025
https://bit.ly/3oudw1R

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - CRASSH

For projects with an innovative approach

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social · Mar 28

was recently reunited with my long-lost twin brother, also called Ian - and although he's too humble to post about it I'm so enormously proud to see his (my!) name on the title page of this spiffy new Oxford World's Classics edition of The Comedy of Errors.

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 26d

How do different ways of reading affect our experience of literature? In collaboration with the BBC, Open University lecturer @shaftowheed.bsky.social has developed a short quiz to show how different formats affect our reading experience. You can find the quiz here:
www.instagram.com/ouconnect/re...

OU Connect on Instagram: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live welcomes The OU’s Dr Shafquat Tow...

10 likes, 0 comments - ouconnect on September 8, 2025: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live wel...

www.instagram.com

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 26d

Good morning.

Rónán on his debut being adapted for TV & narrated by Julia Roberts.

_Leonard and Hungry Paul_ by @ronanhession.bsky.social

'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting bullseye in New York.'

Many thanks @thetimes.com

@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@hatchards.bsky.social

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Cambridge Festival @cambridgefestival.bsky.social · 29d

It's not just any Friday...

Today marks the start of 10 days of FREE events for EVERYONE. Explore the full programme now: https://bit.ly/3UUqxki

#OpenCambridge #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #HOD #HeritageOpenDays

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Sep 10

🎧 On ABCNews Late Night Live, Cambridge University & CRASSH researcher Dr Richard Latham Lechowick joins David Marr to explore how memory shapes conflict, identity, and political power

Weds 10 Sept at 1pm UK time
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive

#CollectiveMemory #Geopolitics

Late Night Live with David Marr - ABC listen

Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

www.abc.net.au

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 Registration is open for 'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblesoccollfuture.bsky.social on 26&27 Sept

Become part of a network of scholars and experts in Religious Studies, material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/

The future of research in Bible Society collections - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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