A case of swallowtail butterflies on display in a wooden museum case.
📢Applications are open for a new fully funded PhD studentship:
🦋‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’.
⏳Application deadline: 3 May 2026
🔎More info: https://loom.ly/MO5pMMM
13.03.2026 03:01
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What will your event be?
Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫
Have you got an idea that may:
- Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures?
- Forge new collaborations ?
- Bring academic research to wider publics?
- Explore research and artistic practice?
Apply by 17 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3CaV97M
10.03.2026 16:14
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A VERY Happy Birthday to Frankenstein's Monster!🎂🥳🎉
Sorry about your dad. 😔
#Literature
#LibrarySky
#MonsterMash
11.03.2026 13:25
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Almost the 400th anniversary of the Cambridge bookfish!
09.03.2026 18:38
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Sequel to a Reminiscence
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library
Today on #IWD we honour Amy Levy, Jewish poet, novelist, essayist, and Cambridge Alumna.
🔎Levy's Archive at the UL: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
With thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
08.03.2026 03:55
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Celebrate #WorldBookDay with a look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914
05.03.2026 17:45
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04.03.2026 12:34
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Michael Dobson · Flash and Thunder: Marlowe’s Betrayals
As Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance shows despite itself, it is not Marlowe’s life story that we still need,...
‘It is not Christopher Marlowe’s life story that we still need, but his plays and poems: we might well want to avert our eyes from the bathetically dismal life of the man who wrote them.’
Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt’s new study of the playwright.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
03.03.2026 14:15
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Screenshot of the title and abstract of 'Digitality and the African Photographic Archive'.
We're delighted to share a new article by CDH PhD student Emmanuel Iduma, published in the journal Arts ⬇️
Digitality and the African Photographic Archive: Towards a Practice of Futurity
Read online: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...
03.03.2026 14:35
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Look @fitzmuseum.bsky.social, it's your DELIGHTFUL art!
03.03.2026 12:14
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Quality Sixteen
Disaster films are in again: zombies
and apocalyptic nightmares--nature
as the enemy. Our culture's appetite
for science and catastrophe projected
now on several screens at once. Abbot
& Costello meet the Mummy scared me
half to death, but like a gateway drug
it led me on to harder stuff: Earthquake,
Lester's Juggernaut and Jaws--the purest
angel dust of features. Psychologists
believe our deepest fears are rooted
in the memories we share. Historians
might disagree--this turning outward
is a wartime theme. So's naked tyranny.
PHILLIP CRYMBLE
A poem of our moment as it first appeared over 20 years ago in the pages of The Stinging Fly
01.03.2026 15:13
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VERY EXCITING news about new film based on 'Underland' by Prof @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social from @cam-english-fac.bsky.social !!! 🎬🎞️🍿
27.02.2026 14:46
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Jade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3
Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and reflected...
Jade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3
Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph...
20.02.2026 15:50
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Its going to be a great festival this year! For all the details, tickets and workshops go to our website www.munsterlit.ie
#corkevents #festival #poetryfestival
27.02.2026 13:40
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A photograph of a character in a film. Head and shoulders, a young man with chiselled features; some drapery is visible on his left shoulder but his right is bare, and he has gold tiara-like spikes in his hair. He's standing against an ornate stone background.
The same man lying on his arms on the ground, as if in a forest, looking sulky and intense.
Oberon: I saw Cupid loose his arrow! but he missed.... 🏹 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
It's Monday morning in a never-ending February so please enjoy Rupert Everett as Oberon in the 1999 film of Dream, dir. Michael Hoffmann.
23.02.2026 09:08
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend!
#medievalsky
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.22, f. 142v
20.02.2026 09:21
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The Song of Songs: Poetry in History
How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.
The Song of Songs: Poetry in History
10 April 2-5pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.
www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...
18.02.2026 09:26
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It has rained for five days running
the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning to cope a young boy in my garden is bailing out water from his flower patch when I ask him why he tells me
young seeds that have not seen sun forget
and drown easily.
happy Audre Lorde’s birthday to all who celebrate
18.02.2026 09:37
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Engraving showing a horse in profile
Happy Lunar New Year! This beautiful specimen is from our 1668 edition of 'Markham's master-piece ... touching on curing all diseases in horses', a seminal text on horse care #LunarYear #YearOfTheHorse
17.02.2026 09:33
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Narrative Poems: 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece' by William Shakespeare
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 16/02/2026 · 1h 2m
‘If you asked anyone in 1610, what’s Shakespeare famous for, they would likely have said, oh, that terrific poem ‘Venus and Adonis’ – God, I enjoyed that.’
Mark Ford on Shakespeare’s narrative poems on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
17.02.2026 08:15
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Green squiggly border surrounds beige poster. Large black text in the centre reads, 'If music be the food of love, play on'. Hand drawn looking stars highlight edges of text. Underneath text is an illustration of a fluffy pancake stack with fruit and syrup on the top.
Did Valentine's Day pass and you still aren't sure if you are doing this romance thing right?🤔
Yeah, we don't know either.
But every day is a good day to find an ebook you love. Click the link below to explore some of the things random items we ❤️love❤️ in our collection.
tinyurl.com/3ft9t2am
16.02.2026 11:59
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Monochrome photograph featuring a line of six white girls in dresses sitting on the outside step of a wooden building while reading books
Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
16.02.2026 05:48
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Kenneth Branagh, Alfred Enoch, Alex Hassell and Tamara Harvey in conversation | Henry V Roundtable
YouTube video by Royal Shakespeare Company
👑Ahead of our new production of Henry V, we brought Alfred Enoch, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Hassall, and Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey together to reflect on Shakespeare's epic history play.
Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg
12.02.2026 11:34
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