University of Exeter Special Collections
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Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps. There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
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LibGuides: Visiting Heritage Collections: Reading Room booking form
LibGuides: Visiting Heritage Collections: Reading Room booking form
libguides.exeter.ac.uk
The collections are available for everyone to access for research or enjoyment in our Reading Room!
When visiting us, please:
🗓️ Book in advance
🧼 Wash your hands with soap and water
✏️ Bring a pencil or electronic device (no pens!)
Book your visit here ⬇️
When visiting us, please:
🗓️ Book in advance
🧼 Wash your hands with soap and water
✏️ Bring a pencil or electronic device (no pens!)
Book your visit here ⬇️
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Recently, our DH interns have learned the importance of digitising legacy media like VHS. Over time and with improper storage, VHS tapes steadily deteriorate with the magnetic tape losing quality. This leads to warping or mould, which renders it unplayable!
#Digital #Humanities #Internships #DH
#Digital #Humanities #Internships #DH
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Recently, our DH interns have learned the importance of digitising legacy media like VHS. Over time and with improper storage, VHS tapes steadily deteriorate with the magnetic tape losing quality. This leads to warping or mould, which renders it unplayable!
#Digital #Humanities #Internships #DH
#Digital #Humanities #Internships #DH
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Exeter Cathedral Library holds one of the country’s largest historic medical collections 🩺
At its core is the private library of about 350 works of science and medicine bequeathed to the Cathedral Library by Thomas Glass.
Find out more: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/...
At its core is the private library of about 350 works of science and medicine bequeathed to the Cathedral Library by Thomas Glass.
Find out more: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/...
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Exeter Cathedral Library holds one of the country’s largest historic medical collections 🩺
At its core is the private library of about 350 works of science and medicine bequeathed to the Cathedral Library by Thomas Glass.
Find out more: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/...
At its core is the private library of about 350 works of science and medicine bequeathed to the Cathedral Library by Thomas Glass.
Find out more: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/...
Student volunteer, Ted, has written a fantastic new blog post to accompany his exhibition on the Cornish poet & writer, Jack Clemo: 'Exhibition of a Rebel'.
Read it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level -1 of the Forum Library.
Read it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level -1 of the Forum Library.
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Student volunteer, Ted, has written a fantastic new blog post to accompany his exhibition on the Cornish poet & writer, Jack Clemo: 'Exhibition of a Rebel'.
Read it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level -1 of the Forum Library.
Read it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level -1 of the Forum Library.
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✨ A look at our events schedule for the end of this year, heading into next year.
🎶✍️🧱 We've got a big #LibraryLates event heading your way, along with creative writing events, jazz, Lego, quiz, all that good stuff.
#LoveLibraries
🎶✍️🧱 We've got a big #LibraryLates event heading your way, along with creative writing events, jazz, Lego, quiz, all that good stuff.
#LoveLibraries
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
✨ A look at our events schedule for the end of this year, heading into next year.
🎶✍️🧱 We've got a big #LibraryLates event heading your way, along with creative writing events, jazz, Lego, quiz, all that good stuff.
#LoveLibraries
🎶✍️🧱 We've got a big #LibraryLates event heading your way, along with creative writing events, jazz, Lego, quiz, all that good stuff.
#LoveLibraries
Check out this new blog post on our Special Collections blog! ⬇️
New blogpost on an interesting photograph album from the Pamir Boundary Commission of 1895, now digitised and available on DAME (the Digital Archive of the Middle East), documenting negotiations about border demarcation in Afghanistan
specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/21/t...
specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/21/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Check out this new blog post on our Special Collections blog! ⬇️
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'Archival Reader' in action!
Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60
More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60
More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'Archival Reader' in action!
Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60
More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60
More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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Lights... Camera.... Christmas! 🎬
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lights... Camera.... Christmas! 🎬
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
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Last week, our DH Interns were introduced to photogrammetry & 3D Imaging
Photogrammetry is the process of extracting accurate measurements and 3D information from overlapping photographs. This allows us to create digital models to analyse and preserve fragile original objects
#Digital #Humanities
Photogrammetry is the process of extracting accurate measurements and 3D information from overlapping photographs. This allows us to create digital models to analyse and preserve fragile original objects
#Digital #Humanities
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Last week, our DH Interns were introduced to photogrammetry & 3D Imaging
Photogrammetry is the process of extracting accurate measurements and 3D information from overlapping photographs. This allows us to create digital models to analyse and preserve fragile original objects
#Digital #Humanities
Photogrammetry is the process of extracting accurate measurements and 3D information from overlapping photographs. This allows us to create digital models to analyse and preserve fragile original objects
#Digital #Humanities
20 November to 20 December is UK Disability History Month, which platforms the history of disabled people's struggle for equality and human rights.
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
LibGuides: Special Collections: Disability History Resources: Introduction
LibGuides: Special Collections: Disability History Resources: Introduction
libguides.exeter.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
20 November to 20 December is UK Disability History Month, which platforms the history of disabled people's struggle for equality and human rights.
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
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From Mon 8 Dec, Exeter Library will host an incredible exhibition from the Devon Air Ambulance Trust.
“It's Who We Are” is a photography campaign by Devon Air Ambulance that shares portraits & personal stories of the organisation’s crew. This will be a free exhibition in the foyer & main library.
“It's Who We Are” is a photography campaign by Devon Air Ambulance that shares portraits & personal stories of the organisation’s crew. This will be a free exhibition in the foyer & main library.
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
From Mon 8 Dec, Exeter Library will host an incredible exhibition from the Devon Air Ambulance Trust.
“It's Who We Are” is a photography campaign by Devon Air Ambulance that shares portraits & personal stories of the organisation’s crew. This will be a free exhibition in the foyer & main library.
“It's Who We Are” is a photography campaign by Devon Air Ambulance that shares portraits & personal stories of the organisation’s crew. This will be a free exhibition in the foyer & main library.
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Our "Roots & Routes" creative workshop is coming up soon! Be inspired by maps and photos and learn more about the past and present of St Thomas. 6th Dec, 10:30-12:30pm. For more info and FREE tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exe... #ProudToBe @exeterobserver.org @exeterlibrary.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Our "Roots & Routes" creative workshop is coming up soon! Be inspired by maps and photos and learn more about the past and present of St Thomas. 6th Dec, 10:30-12:30pm. For more info and FREE tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exe... #ProudToBe @exeterobserver.org @exeterlibrary.bsky.social
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Thanks to @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social we have discovered today is #WorldWalrusDay!
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thanks to @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social we have discovered today is #WorldWalrusDay!
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the walruses, for today is their special day!
To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks
To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the walruses, for today is their special day!
To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks
To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks
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#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself
📖BS.15/D
📖BS.15/D
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself
📖BS.15/D
📖BS.15/D
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Which one are you feeling like on this Monday morning?
Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, found on Digital Bodleian! Explore the manuscript and what other characters it has to offer: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ae9f6cca-ae5c-4149-8fe4-95e6eca1f73c/
#MedievalMonday
Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, found on Digital Bodleian! Explore the manuscript and what other characters it has to offer: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ae9f6cca-ae5c-4149-8fe4-95e6eca1f73c/
#MedievalMonday
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Which one are you feeling like on this Monday morning?
Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, found on Digital Bodleian! Explore the manuscript and what other characters it has to offer: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ae9f6cca-ae5c-4149-8fe4-95e6eca1f73c/
#MedievalMonday
Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, found on Digital Bodleian! Explore the manuscript and what other characters it has to offer: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ae9f6cca-ae5c-4149-8fe4-95e6eca1f73c/
#MedievalMonday
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Today we've been using these pretty comprehensive guides to the stone crosses of Cornwall from our special collections!
Written by historian and bard Andrew Langdon, these books are in our Gorsedh Kernow collection, providing valuable insight into the history of religion in Cornwall.
#EYAReligion
Written by historian and bard Andrew Langdon, these books are in our Gorsedh Kernow collection, providing valuable insight into the history of religion in Cornwall.
#EYAReligion
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today we've been using these pretty comprehensive guides to the stone crosses of Cornwall from our special collections!
Written by historian and bard Andrew Langdon, these books are in our Gorsedh Kernow collection, providing valuable insight into the history of religion in Cornwall.
#EYAReligion
Written by historian and bard Andrew Langdon, these books are in our Gorsedh Kernow collection, providing valuable insight into the history of religion in Cornwall.
#EYAReligion
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Today is #WorldFisheriesDay and Nicky, one of fabulous library volunteers, has written a piece on @thembauk.bsky.social's history of fisheries research.
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Today is #WorldFisheriesDay and Nicky, one of fabulous library volunteers, has written a piece on @thembauk.bsky.social's history of fisheries research.
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
www.mba.ac.uk/the-marine-b...
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Events next week:
Academic Writing: Presentations and posters
Criticality in Academic Writing
Dissertation Project Management
Business School Library Research Drop-ins
Dissertations: Critical Reading and Writing
Skills Drop-Ins/Library Research Cafés
See more & book: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibEvent 🗓️
Academic Writing: Presentations and posters
Criticality in Academic Writing
Dissertation Project Management
Business School Library Research Drop-ins
Dissertations: Critical Reading and Writing
Skills Drop-Ins/Library Research Cafés
See more & book: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibEvent 🗓️
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Events next week:
Academic Writing: Presentations and posters
Criticality in Academic Writing
Dissertation Project Management
Business School Library Research Drop-ins
Dissertations: Critical Reading and Writing
Skills Drop-Ins/Library Research Cafés
See more & book: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibEvent 🗓️
Academic Writing: Presentations and posters
Criticality in Academic Writing
Dissertation Project Management
Business School Library Research Drop-ins
Dissertations: Critical Reading and Writing
Skills Drop-Ins/Library Research Cafés
See more & book: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibEvent 🗓️
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Competition time!
For this year's DEI Christmas card, we chose this beautiful wood engraving from the 1867 Christmas supplement to the Illustrated London News, based on a drawing by Wilhelm Kümpel.
Can you recreate this image, holding an object of your choice, to win a pack of 10 Christmas cards?
For this year's DEI Christmas card, we chose this beautiful wood engraving from the 1867 Christmas supplement to the Illustrated London News, based on a drawing by Wilhelm Kümpel.
Can you recreate this image, holding an object of your choice, to win a pack of 10 Christmas cards?
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Competition time!
For this year's DEI Christmas card, we chose this beautiful wood engraving from the 1867 Christmas supplement to the Illustrated London News, based on a drawing by Wilhelm Kümpel.
Can you recreate this image, holding an object of your choice, to win a pack of 10 Christmas cards?
For this year's DEI Christmas card, we chose this beautiful wood engraving from the 1867 Christmas supplement to the Illustrated London News, based on a drawing by Wilhelm Kümpel.
Can you recreate this image, holding an object of your choice, to win a pack of 10 Christmas cards?
Did you know the University of Exeter has had its own student TV station since 1992?
This newspaper article appeared in the student newspaper 'Exeposé' on 20 January 1992 to announce the launch of XTV.
📷 Exeter University/Exeposé
#WorldTelevisionDay #TelevisionDay #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives
This newspaper article appeared in the student newspaper 'Exeposé' on 20 January 1992 to announce the launch of XTV.
📷 Exeter University/Exeposé
#WorldTelevisionDay #TelevisionDay #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Did you know the University of Exeter has had its own student TV station since 1992?
This newspaper article appeared in the student newspaper 'Exeposé' on 20 January 1992 to announce the launch of XTV.
📷 Exeter University/Exeposé
#WorldTelevisionDay #TelevisionDay #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives
This newspaper article appeared in the student newspaper 'Exeposé' on 20 January 1992 to announce the launch of XTV.
📷 Exeter University/Exeposé
#WorldTelevisionDay #TelevisionDay #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives
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Cosy #autumn vibes this chilly #FashionFriday with this pink and tan ensemble from our collection of French #Fashion Drawings, 1925. C'est magnifique!
@librarydmu.bsky.social #fashionhistory #historicfashion #fashionillustration #1920sstyle #vintage
@librarydmu.bsky.social #fashionhistory #historicfashion #fashionillustration #1920sstyle #vintage
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Cosy #autumn vibes this chilly #FashionFriday with this pink and tan ensemble from our collection of French #Fashion Drawings, 1925. C'est magnifique!
@librarydmu.bsky.social #fashionhistory #historicfashion #fashionillustration #1920sstyle #vintage
@librarydmu.bsky.social #fashionhistory #historicfashion #fashionillustration #1920sstyle #vintage
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Love a bit of pareidolia in the archive
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Love a bit of pareidolia in the archive
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Here is a Victorian treasure with a musical twist 🎶📸
This photo album, from around 1870, doesn’t just hold memories—it plays them!
Hidden in the back is a wind-up mechanism that performs ‘Soldiers of the Queen’ and ‘Let Me Like a Soldier Fall’. A glimpse of history you can hear as well as see!
This photo album, from around 1870, doesn’t just hold memories—it plays them!
Hidden in the back is a wind-up mechanism that performs ‘Soldiers of the Queen’ and ‘Let Me Like a Soldier Fall’. A glimpse of history you can hear as well as see!
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Here is a Victorian treasure with a musical twist 🎶📸
This photo album, from around 1870, doesn’t just hold memories—it plays them!
Hidden in the back is a wind-up mechanism that performs ‘Soldiers of the Queen’ and ‘Let Me Like a Soldier Fall’. A glimpse of history you can hear as well as see!
This photo album, from around 1870, doesn’t just hold memories—it plays them!
Hidden in the back is a wind-up mechanism that performs ‘Soldiers of the Queen’ and ‘Let Me Like a Soldier Fall’. A glimpse of history you can hear as well as see!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...in our new Special Collections exhibition! 🎄
Head to the display case on Level 0 of the Forum Library for festive feast for the eyes in our 'Vintage Christmas' exhibition, featuring archives, rare books, and plenty of Christmas cards!
Head to the display case on Level 0 of the Forum Library for festive feast for the eyes in our 'Vintage Christmas' exhibition, featuring archives, rare books, and plenty of Christmas cards!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...in our new Special Collections exhibition! 🎄
Head to the display case on Level 0 of the Forum Library for festive feast for the eyes in our 'Vintage Christmas' exhibition, featuring archives, rare books, and plenty of Christmas cards!
Head to the display case on Level 0 of the Forum Library for festive feast for the eyes in our 'Vintage Christmas' exhibition, featuring archives, rare books, and plenty of Christmas cards!