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Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.
Our new exhibition, Curious Cures, takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing and herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery.
🔗Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/kVqsPRY
#CuriousCures
Our new exhibition, Curious Cures, takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing and herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery.
🔗Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/kVqsPRY
#CuriousCures
🔔 The University of Cambridge has revised its Open Research Position Statement, reinforcing our commitment to rigour, integrity, and transparency in research behaviours, practices and outputs.
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🔔 The University of Cambridge has revised its Open Research Position Statement, reinforcing our commitment to rigour, integrity, and transparency in research behaviours, practices and outputs.
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
🔎 Read the statement: https://loom.ly/-W0LS6o
Black British Voices: Black British Collections.
Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
Black British Voices: Black British Collections
Join a community panel to shape Cambridge University Library's 2027 public exhibition and programme
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Black British Voices: Black British Collections.
Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
We hope you can join us this evening on Zoom to discuss The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow! Register your free place: loom.ly/PlR2sr0
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We hope you can join us this evening on Zoom to discuss The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow! Register your free place: loom.ly/PlR2sr0
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Spot the typo on pg 20. #OTD 1859 Darwin's On The Origin of Species was published. It was corrected in the 2nd printing. This copy was given by Adam Sedgwick and includes his many notes and an inscription by the author. Digitised in full here:
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/...
#Darwin
#typo
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/...
#Darwin
#typo
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Spot the typo on pg 20. #OTD 1859 Darwin's On The Origin of Species was published. It was corrected in the 2nd printing. This copy was given by Adam Sedgwick and includes his many notes and an inscription by the author. Digitised in full here:
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/...
#Darwin
#typo
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/...
#Darwin
#typo
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
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Think these are female Goat willow catkins with seeds in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Think these are female Goat willow catkins with seeds in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
🐖 Good morrow, swineherd. It's time to fetch your big stick and beat the acorns from the trees!
Here we see an image 14th-century Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17), depicting a man beating acorns from a tree for his pigs. November was the month to fatten pigs for December's slaughter.
Here we see an image 14th-century Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17), depicting a man beating acorns from a tree for his pigs. November was the month to fatten pigs for December's slaughter.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🐖 Good morrow, swineherd. It's time to fetch your big stick and beat the acorns from the trees!
Here we see an image 14th-century Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17), depicting a man beating acorns from a tree for his pigs. November was the month to fatten pigs for December's slaughter.
Here we see an image 14th-century Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17), depicting a man beating acorns from a tree for his pigs. November was the month to fatten pigs for December's slaughter.
✍️ Need help with your academic writing?
Support sessions with our Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Alexander Masters, start on 15 Oct 2025 for all current Cambridge University students and staff.
To book, email [email protected].
Support sessions with our Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Alexander Masters, start on 15 Oct 2025 for all current Cambridge University students and staff.
To book, email [email protected].
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
✍️ Need help with your academic writing?
Support sessions with our Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Alexander Masters, start on 15 Oct 2025 for all current Cambridge University students and staff.
To book, email [email protected].
Support sessions with our Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Alexander Masters, start on 15 Oct 2025 for all current Cambridge University students and staff.
To book, email [email protected].
When you realise there’s a word in the Cambridge Dictionary to describe the way you feel about Taylor Swift.
PARASOCIAL is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year! It's the connection felt with a famous person, a fictional character, or AI, despite not knowing them personally.
Image: MS Dd.5.5
PARASOCIAL is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year! It's the connection felt with a famous person, a fictional character, or AI, despite not knowing them personally.
Image: MS Dd.5.5
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When you realise there’s a word in the Cambridge Dictionary to describe the way you feel about Taylor Swift.
PARASOCIAL is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year! It's the connection felt with a famous person, a fictional character, or AI, despite not knowing them personally.
Image: MS Dd.5.5
PARASOCIAL is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year! It's the connection felt with a famous person, a fictional character, or AI, despite not knowing them personally.
Image: MS Dd.5.5
Write an essay to win £500 📝
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Write an essay to win £500 📝
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
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Just witnessed the ceremonial unrolling of some beautiful and often rather intriguing geological wall posters at the @theul.bsky.social. Here's a selection.
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just witnessed the ceremonial unrolling of some beautiful and often rather intriguing geological wall posters at the @theul.bsky.social. Here's a selection.
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Delighted to hear that Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy's papers will now be more accessible.
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Delighted to hear that Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy's papers will now be more accessible.
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
#OnThisDay in 1600, Charles I was born.
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#OnThisDay in 1600, Charles I was born.
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
📚 The Really Popular Book Club has two fantastic reads coming up!
📖 25 November
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
📖 16 December
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
🎟️ FREE tickets — register here to join us online: https://loom.ly/PlR2sr0
📖 25 November
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
📖 16 December
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
🎟️ FREE tickets — register here to join us online: https://loom.ly/PlR2sr0
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
📚 The Really Popular Book Club has two fantastic reads coming up!
📖 25 November
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
📖 16 December
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
🎟️ FREE tickets — register here to join us online: https://loom.ly/PlR2sr0
📖 25 November
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
📖 16 December
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
🎟️ FREE tickets — register here to join us online: https://loom.ly/PlR2sr0
Cambridge students, researchers, and staff can access free skills sessions with the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives Research Skills programme. Explore a range of skills sessions on topics including academic writing, reading, note-making and publishing. https://loom.ly/sBak5xw
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Cambridge students, researchers, and staff can access free skills sessions with the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives Research Skills programme. Explore a range of skills sessions on topics including academic writing, reading, note-making and publishing. https://loom.ly/sBak5xw
🧪Hold on to your urine flasks, there are only a few weeks left to visit Curious Cures!
📍 Open until 6 December 2025 at the University Library
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Music by Vlad Bakutov from Pixabay
📍 Open until 6 December 2025 at the University Library
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Music by Vlad Bakutov from Pixabay
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🧪Hold on to your urine flasks, there are only a few weeks left to visit Curious Cures!
📍 Open until 6 December 2025 at the University Library
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Music by Vlad Bakutov from Pixabay
📍 Open until 6 December 2025 at the University Library
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Music by Vlad Bakutov from Pixabay
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Bookings just opened for December's Really Popular Book Club @theul.bsky.social . Come listen to me ruin all your fond childhood memories of Narnia.
The Really Popular Book Club: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by
TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2025 7PM to 8PM Open to all. Hosted online using Zoom Meetings. TICKETS: Free, booking required. ACCESSIBILITY: Live subtitles are available using Zoom's Live Transcript function.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bookings just opened for December's Really Popular Book Club @theul.bsky.social . Come listen to me ruin all your fond childhood memories of Narnia.
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Insects on the engraved title-page of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ‘Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung’ (Nuremberg, 1746-61), vol. 2. S391.c.74.1-4 @theul.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Insects on the engraved title-page of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ‘Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung’ (Nuremberg, 1746-61), vol. 2. S391.c.74.1-4 @theul.bsky.social
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
Laugh out loud at the library! Comedy improv inspired by our latest Curious Cures exhibition 🎭😆
Thursday 20 November. 5.30-7pm. Tickets £5. More info and to book: https://loom.ly/ctOh268
#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #ImprovNight #CambridgeEvents #ComedyNight
Thursday 20 November. 5.30-7pm. Tickets £5. More info and to book: https://loom.ly/ctOh268
#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #ImprovNight #CambridgeEvents #ComedyNight
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Laugh out loud at the library! Comedy improv inspired by our latest Curious Cures exhibition 🎭😆
Thursday 20 November. 5.30-7pm. Tickets £5. More info and to book: https://loom.ly/ctOh268
#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #ImprovNight #CambridgeEvents #ComedyNight
Thursday 20 November. 5.30-7pm. Tickets £5. More info and to book: https://loom.ly/ctOh268
#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #ImprovNight #CambridgeEvents #ComedyNight
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We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
In their own words: medical writings in Middle English – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
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Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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atel, adj: dire, terrible. (AH-tell / ˈa-tɛl)
Image: Bestiary from a didactic miscellany; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 67v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Bestiary from a didactic miscellany; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 67v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
atel, adj: dire, terrible. (AH-tell / ˈa-tɛl)
Image: Bestiary from a didactic miscellany; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 67v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Bestiary from a didactic miscellany; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 67v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
For #DigitalPreservationDay we spoke to Caylin Smith, Head of Digital Preservation, about her team's efforts to foster a culture of digital stewardship that protects our digital heritage for future generations.
#WDPD2025
Read more: https://loom.ly/UFJLE40
💾🖥️
#WDPD2025
Read more: https://loom.ly/UFJLE40
💾🖥️
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
For #DigitalPreservationDay we spoke to Caylin Smith, Head of Digital Preservation, about her team's efforts to foster a culture of digital stewardship that protects our digital heritage for future generations.
#WDPD2025
Read more: https://loom.ly/UFJLE40
💾🖥️
#WDPD2025
Read more: https://loom.ly/UFJLE40
💾🖥️