🎼 Open for registration

Moving Music: The transmission of music and sound in the medieval and early modern world

This event on 24 & 25 June at Emmanuel College will explore how, when, where, and by whom music and sound was transmitted during medieval and early modern periods

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✏️ Our Research Practice Seminars are back for Easter Term!

Join us Thursdays from 12-2pm at CRASSH for lunch, talks and discussion, where we explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
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Cucumbers for Constipation and Vinegar for Verrucas? These are #CuriousCures for the 21st Century...

We asked our exhibition visitors for medical tips, and some are just as curious as the cures found in medieval manuscripts!

Find out more in this blog: loom.ly/Z2XyHfU

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs back and helped bring down the global economy.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

The Seeley space in the West Room @theul.bsky.social is open until 9.30pm on weekdays this term. Extra time to enjoy our lovely new space @camhistory.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social

Cambridge is getting busy with students settling back in for Easter term!

We’re taking this opportunity to also welcome some new punny trolleys to the library trolley team: meet Gabriel Cartcía Márquez, Bookrecia Martel, Cartemisia Gentileschi and Samuel Bookett!

Dragons have arrived @theseeleylib.bsky.social

📣The University of Cambridge now has online access to over 50 Latin American newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century!
 
You can find the full collection via the University's A-Z of databases or by searching for the newspapers on iDiscover.
 
libguides.cam.ac.uk/az/databases...

Special delivery in the North Courtyard! 🦆

#Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Ducklings #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

Library Late is back at the UL!

Join us for an evening dedicated to our latest exhibition, Curious Cures.

⏰THURS 19 JUNE 2025, 7.30PM TO 10PM
🎟️Book your ticket: loom.ly/aXzD1H4
£8 for adults / Free for those 17 and under. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.

Booking essential for this year’s Ellen McArthur Lectures, 3 free lectures over 3 days:

🏢Prof Thomas Piketty (EHESS & the Paris School of Economics) will explore ‘global inequality in historical + comparative perspective’
📅21, 22 & 23 May
🏣Cambridge locations

Booking link in reply⬇️

Welcome to #CamFest week 2️⃣! Here's a few highlights taking place this week 👇

TODAY//

🤰Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate: screening of The Climate Baby Dilemma with @cam-repro.bsky.social (6pm Old Divinity School)
📱Voice Notes from Palestine + Panel Q&A (3pm, @camedfac.bsky.social

As we enter the season of final papers and exams, remember that today we also welcome the season of sunshine (with occasional showers). Take a walk, smell the flowers, and enjoy the longer days. Happy first day of Spring from all of us at POLIS.

This Easter vacation, join us at Cambridge University Library's in-person group writing sessions!

⏰ 31 March, 14 April & 28 April, 9.30am - 12pm
📍Cambridge University Library
👋Open to all students and researchers
🔗Find out more and book your spot: loom.ly/31UWWy0

☘️ A St. Patrick's Day special for #MedievalMonday! ☘️

This fine illustration of St. Patrick preaching is part of Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.27 (Part II), a collection of 14th and 15th-century manuscripts from Bury St. Edmunds. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social