English Faculty Library
@eflcam.bsky.social
Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. Working under @theul.bsky.social.
See more at: linktr.ee/eflcam
Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
See more at: linktr.ee/eflcam
Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
Another notable week where Cambridge Faculty of English staff Fiona Green and David Trotter have cover articles in this fortnight's @lrb.co.uk!
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Another notable week where Cambridge Faculty of English staff Fiona Green and David Trotter have cover articles in this fortnight's @lrb.co.uk!
Tours of the EFL are running all this week, but if you are feeling a bit shy you can enjoy this mini-tour put together by @theul.bsky.social!
Book through⬆️link in bio⬆️, or just stop by for a friendly chat about how we support your English studies.
(psssst....there are sweets at the staff desk🍬)
Book through⬆️link in bio⬆️, or just stop by for a friendly chat about how we support your English studies.
(psssst....there are sweets at the staff desk🍬)
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tours of the EFL are running all this week, but if you are feeling a bit shy you can enjoy this mini-tour put together by @theul.bsky.social!
Book through⬆️link in bio⬆️, or just stop by for a friendly chat about how we support your English studies.
(psssst....there are sweets at the staff desk🍬)
Book through⬆️link in bio⬆️, or just stop by for a friendly chat about how we support your English studies.
(psssst....there are sweets at the staff desk🍬)
📚📖🐲🫖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
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
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
📚📖🐲🫖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
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
🌻😎📖Even librarians need a little break sometimes. 😴🌴🌊
The EFL will be having a long August Bank Holiday, with closure Friday 22 August to Monday 25 August, inclusive.
We will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 August with our usual out of term hours.
🌻Happy Bank Holiday!🌻
The EFL will be having a long August Bank Holiday, with closure Friday 22 August to Monday 25 August, inclusive.
We will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 August with our usual out of term hours.
🌻Happy Bank Holiday!🌻
August 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌻😎📖Even librarians need a little break sometimes. 😴🌴🌊
The EFL will be having a long August Bank Holiday, with closure Friday 22 August to Monday 25 August, inclusive.
We will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 August with our usual out of term hours.
🌻Happy Bank Holiday!🌻
The EFL will be having a long August Bank Holiday, with closure Friday 22 August to Monday 25 August, inclusive.
We will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 August with our usual out of term hours.
🌻Happy Bank Holiday!🌻
School may be out for the summer, but the EFL is still open for all of your questions and summer reading needs. 📚📖🌞🕶️
⬆️Find our Linktree in bio to contact us⬆️
⬆️Find our Linktree in bio to contact us⬆️
June 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
School may be out for the summer, but the EFL is still open for all of your questions and summer reading needs. 📚📖🌞🕶️
⬆️Find our Linktree in bio to contact us⬆️
⬆️Find our Linktree in bio to contact us⬆️
It's easy to lose all sense of time during exam term. But the EFL's term time opening hours remain the same!
May 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's easy to lose all sense of time during exam term. But the EFL's term time opening hours remain the same!
With dissertation deadlines coming up, it's easy to get bogged down in MHRA. You can email the EFL with questions and the friendly library team will help you sort them out.
Email us at [email protected]
Happy Writing!
Email us at [email protected]
Happy Writing!
April 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
With dissertation deadlines coming up, it's easy to get bogged down in MHRA. You can email the EFL with questions and the friendly library team will help you sort them out.
Email us at [email protected]
Happy Writing!
Email us at [email protected]
Happy Writing!
New book from @stephenturton.bsky.social arrives in the EFL!
Find it on the new books stand in the library with our other recently arrived delights (both new and old).📕📚📖
Find it on the new books stand in the library with our other recently arrived delights (both new and old).📕📚📖
April 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
New book from @stephenturton.bsky.social arrives in the EFL!
Find it on the new books stand in the library with our other recently arrived delights (both new and old).📕📚📖
Find it on the new books stand in the library with our other recently arrived delights (both new and old).📕📚📖
We survived Lent Term and it's time to take a break, but the EFL is still here through the spring holiday for all your referencing, research and resource request needs! 📝📖📚💻
⬆️See link in bio for details⬆️
⬆️See link in bio for details⬆️
March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We survived Lent Term and it's time to take a break, but the EFL is still here through the spring holiday for all your referencing, research and resource request needs! 📝📖📚💻
⬆️See link in bio for details⬆️
⬆️See link in bio for details⬆️
Come to the English Faculty at 11.30 for a talk on 'The Modernist Party' discussing Virginia Woolf & Katherine Mansfield by 2 of our very own PhD students, as part of @cambridgefestival.bsky.social!
(We hear there will be tea🫖)
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/moder...
(We hear there will be tea🫖)
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/moder...
March 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Come to the English Faculty at 11.30 for a talk on 'The Modernist Party' discussing Virginia Woolf & Katherine Mansfield by 2 of our very own PhD students, as part of @cambridgefestival.bsky.social!
(We hear there will be tea🫖)
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/moder...
(We hear there will be tea🫖)
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/moder...
It is a way of marginalising the readers. Especially when works of the 19th century which were once ‘popular’ are now considered ‘classics’. They are redefined in order to exclude.
Reading for pleasure remains a radical act.
#HappyWorldBookDay2025
Reading for pleasure remains a radical act.
#HappyWorldBookDay2025
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It is a way of marginalising the readers. Especially when works of the 19th century which were once ‘popular’ are now considered ‘classics’. They are redefined in order to exclude.
Reading for pleasure remains a radical act.
#HappyWorldBookDay2025
Reading for pleasure remains a radical act.
#HappyWorldBookDay2025
Criticisms of against reading for pleasure often cite low quality, mass production, formulaic plots, and lack of artistry as reasons why they can not, or should not, be enjoyed past their intended demographics. However, much of this is the same criticism levelled again popular literature as a whole.
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Criticisms of against reading for pleasure often cite low quality, mass production, formulaic plots, and lack of artistry as reasons why they can not, or should not, be enjoyed past their intended demographics. However, much of this is the same criticism levelled again popular literature as a whole.
It was Charlotte Brontë writing Jane Eyre (1847) who is often credited with the first appearance of the realistic child’s voice in an English novel.
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It was Charlotte Brontë writing Jane Eyre (1847) who is often credited with the first appearance of the realistic child’s voice in an English novel.
Fairy tales (and even Shakespeare) were purged of rough content and repackaged as morality tales for the edification of the young specifically and the family as a whole following in the tradition of 18th century religious chapbooks.
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fairy tales (and even Shakespeare) were purged of rough content and repackaged as morality tales for the edification of the young specifically and the family as a whole following in the tradition of 18th century religious chapbooks.
The nineteenth-century changed the way that we think of “children’s stories” as separate to the literature and concerns of adult readers. Many of the texts which have become “classics” in the genre started as popular adult entertainment, including novels by Dickens and Stevenson.
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The nineteenth-century changed the way that we think of “children’s stories” as separate to the literature and concerns of adult readers. Many of the texts which have become “classics” in the genre started as popular adult entertainment, including novels by Dickens and Stevenson.
‘it is just the literature that we read for “amusement,” or “purely for pleasure” that may have the greatest and least suspected influence upon us. It is the literature which we read with the least effort that can have the easiest and most insidious influence upon us.‘ (Eliot, 1935)
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
‘it is just the literature that we read for “amusement,” or “purely for pleasure” that may have the greatest and least suspected influence upon us. It is the literature which we read with the least effort that can have the easiest and most insidious influence upon us.‘ (Eliot, 1935)
World Book Day encourages children to engage in reading for pleasure to build a lifelong enjoyment and engagement with reading. While famous Cambridge critics like F R Leavis were deeply suspicious of the pleasurable reading of popular works. It was grudgingly that even TS Eliot concluded that:
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
World Book Day encourages children to engage in reading for pleasure to build a lifelong enjoyment and engagement with reading. While famous Cambridge critics like F R Leavis were deeply suspicious of the pleasurable reading of popular works. It was grudgingly that even TS Eliot concluded that:
📕In honour of #WorldBookDay the EFL has put together a popup display of historic children's books (and criticism) to spark the imagination, inspire your love of reading, and maybe help you think of them in new ways.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📕In honour of #WorldBookDay the EFL has put together a popup display of historic children's books (and criticism) to spark the imagination, inspire your love of reading, and maybe help you think of them in new ways.
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Good news! Today (24 Feb) the new book by Cambridge English Faculty lecturer Bonnie Lander Johnson is 25% off at Waterstones! Use discount code 'PREORDER25' at checkout.
'Vanishing Landscapes' combines nature writing and cultural history in telling how we became modern and alienated from landscape.
'Vanishing Landscapes' combines nature writing and cultural history in telling how we became modern and alienated from landscape.
February 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Good news! Today (24 Feb) the new book by Cambridge English Faculty lecturer Bonnie Lander Johnson is 25% off at Waterstones! Use discount code 'PREORDER25' at checkout.
'Vanishing Landscapes' combines nature writing and cultural history in telling how we became modern and alienated from landscape.
'Vanishing Landscapes' combines nature writing and cultural history in telling how we became modern and alienated from landscape.
It's a new year and a new term, and the (much-anticipated) return of the EFL's term-time opening hours!📖📚🎉
Is your resolution using the library more? EFL staff are running Re-Fresher tours over the next 2 weeks, or book a 1-2-1 with a librarian!
⬆ See link in bio ⬆
Is your resolution using the library more? EFL staff are running Re-Fresher tours over the next 2 weeks, or book a 1-2-1 with a librarian!
⬆ See link in bio ⬆
January 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It's a new year and a new term, and the (much-anticipated) return of the EFL's term-time opening hours!📖📚🎉
Is your resolution using the library more? EFL staff are running Re-Fresher tours over the next 2 weeks, or book a 1-2-1 with a librarian!
⬆ See link in bio ⬆
Is your resolution using the library more? EFL staff are running Re-Fresher tours over the next 2 weeks, or book a 1-2-1 with a librarian!
⬆ See link in bio ⬆
From 9 December the EFL will be operating our out-of-term opening hours:
Monday - Friday
9.30am to 5pm
The library will close for staff annual leave at 5pm on Friday 20th December and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 6th January.
Happy Term Break!
❄⛄✨📚📖🍄☕
Monday - Friday
9.30am to 5pm
The library will close for staff annual leave at 5pm on Friday 20th December and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 6th January.
Happy Term Break!
❄⛄✨📚📖🍄☕
December 5, 2024 at 12:48 PM
From 9 December the EFL will be operating our out-of-term opening hours:
Monday - Friday
9.30am to 5pm
The library will close for staff annual leave at 5pm on Friday 20th December and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 6th January.
Happy Term Break!
❄⛄✨📚📖🍄☕
Monday - Friday
9.30am to 5pm
The library will close for staff annual leave at 5pm on Friday 20th December and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 6th January.
Happy Term Break!
❄⛄✨📚📖🍄☕
And, of course, the spookiest quote of all:
'Your essay is due tomorrow...' by: My Supervisor
*shivers*
'Your essay is due tomorrow...' by: My Supervisor
*shivers*
November 28, 2024 at 4:49 PM
And, of course, the spookiest quote of all:
'Your essay is due tomorrow...' by: My Supervisor
*shivers*
'Your essay is due tomorrow...' by: My Supervisor
*shivers*
Notables include:
🍁John Webster(E 34 WEB)
🔥 DH Lawrence(E 74 LAW)
🍄 Mary Shelley(E 54 SHE 2)
🍂 Rainer Maria Rilke(Gm 74 RIL)
👻 William Shakespeare(E 34 SHA)
🍁 LM Montgomery(ebook)
🔥 John Keats(E 54 KEA 1)
🍄 Henry David Thoreau(E 54 THO 2)
🍂 Barbara Pym(E 84 PYM)
👻 Robert Browning(E 64 BRO 10)
🍁John Webster(E 34 WEB)
🔥 DH Lawrence(E 74 LAW)
🍄 Mary Shelley(E 54 SHE 2)
🍂 Rainer Maria Rilke(Gm 74 RIL)
👻 William Shakespeare(E 34 SHA)
🍁 LM Montgomery(ebook)
🔥 John Keats(E 54 KEA 1)
🍄 Henry David Thoreau(E 54 THO 2)
🍂 Barbara Pym(E 84 PYM)
👻 Robert Browning(E 64 BRO 10)
November 28, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Notables include:
🍁John Webster(E 34 WEB)
🔥 DH Lawrence(E 74 LAW)
🍄 Mary Shelley(E 54 SHE 2)
🍂 Rainer Maria Rilke(Gm 74 RIL)
👻 William Shakespeare(E 34 SHA)
🍁 LM Montgomery(ebook)
🔥 John Keats(E 54 KEA 1)
🍄 Henry David Thoreau(E 54 THO 2)
🍂 Barbara Pym(E 84 PYM)
👻 Robert Browning(E 64 BRO 10)
🍁John Webster(E 34 WEB)
🔥 DH Lawrence(E 74 LAW)
🍄 Mary Shelley(E 54 SHE 2)
🍂 Rainer Maria Rilke(Gm 74 RIL)
👻 William Shakespeare(E 34 SHA)
🍁 LM Montgomery(ebook)
🔥 John Keats(E 54 KEA 1)
🍄 Henry David Thoreau(E 54 THO 2)
🍂 Barbara Pym(E 84 PYM)
👻 Robert Browning(E 64 BRO 10)
Today starts the last week of term, and the EFL is saying goodbye to autumn and its many great quotes! 🍁🔥🍄🍂👻
To complement the EFL November display of autumn reads, we asked what our readers' favourite spooky or autumn-themed quotes are.
To complement the EFL November display of autumn reads, we asked what our readers' favourite spooky or autumn-themed quotes are.
November 28, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Today starts the last week of term, and the EFL is saying goodbye to autumn and its many great quotes! 🍁🔥🍄🍂👻
To complement the EFL November display of autumn reads, we asked what our readers' favourite spooky or autumn-themed quotes are.
To complement the EFL November display of autumn reads, we asked what our readers' favourite spooky or autumn-themed quotes are.