Ramadan is here!
This illuminated Qurʾān (NN.3.75) is part of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at #CambridgeUniversityLibrary.
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Check out the fabulous selection of photo books and indie publications by photographers from around the globe at the University of Cambridge Shutter Hub Pop-up Photobook library (including Haddo Reimagined 🥳) … on until 2nd April,2026 … #cambridgeuniversitylibrary #haddoreimagined #shortstories
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An image of a student working in a library. They are wearing headphones. Overlaid with the text: "What's new at your libraries this term?"
What's new from your libraries this term?
Read the Lent Term update from your libraries here: https://loom.ly/8CKqyJs
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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A photograph of a student sitting in a comfortable chair reading a book. They are in a library, and behind them are shelves full of books.
New year, new term – what's new from Cambridge University Libraries?
Read the Lent Term update from your libraries here: https://loom.ly/8CKqyJs
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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The UL's tower, seen through the trees from King's College, Cambridge. It is a snowy day.
Cambridge University Library on a snowy day. We see the front of the building, including the tower. Snow lays on the ground and we see a plume of white steam coming out of the top of the tower.
The view from the fourteenth floor of Cambridge University Library's tower
A snowy start to 2026 at Cambridge University Library ☃️
@cam.ac.uk
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #CambridgeSnow #Cambridge #UKSnow
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A sixteenth century image of the Virgin and Child (MS Nn.4.1).
You can see this beautiful manuscript in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/yVzgtgA
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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We see a manuscript page with an image of a man in a red tunic carrying a large club. He is chasing a pig.
It's time for the last medieval agricultural chore of the year. December was for slaughtering the pigs, to provide provisions for the harsh winter months.
This image shows a detail from an early 14th century East Anglian Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17).
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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Black British Voices: Get Involved!
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗 loom.ly/9lDrGVY
Image: Nicole Goodwin, from ‘The Present’ by Beryl Gilroy (1975).
#BlackBritishHistory #BlackBritishVoices #BlackNorthernIrish #BlackArchives #HeritageMatters #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #GetInvolved
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A painting of a house by one of Charles Darwin's children. We see a simple outline of a house with a pitched roof, two chimneys and some lead-paned windows. We see the kitchen fire, with a clock on a mantle, and some cast iron pots on a window sill. In a window at the stop of the house we see a cat, or possibly a squirrel!
A hand-written page of Charles Darwin's original manuscript for the Origin of Species. There are many ink blots and crossings out, and some foxing consistent with its age.
#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)
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Poster for "Comedy Improv at the UL!" featuring a collaboration between Medieval Manuscripts and The Cambridge Impronauts. Includes images of a medieval illustration and an improv performance. University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives logo at the bottom.
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
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An orange cat with a collar sits outside on a wet pavement, looking through a window on a cloudy day with trees and buildings blurred in the background
An orange cat stands on a wet stone step, peering through the ornate metal and glass door of Cambridge University Library
An orange tabby cat sits indoors on a patterned tile floor, looking toward a wooden bench and a door with frosted glass in the background
Rainy days and Mondays always get
Odysseus down 🐈🌧️
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge
Photos by Julian Fuller
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Cambridge U. Library, Future Nostalgia Project, rescuing floppy disc archives of S. Hawking & others.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
#FutureNostalgiaProject
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
#StephenHawkingDigitalArchive
#FloppyDiskRescue
#SaveTheFloppies
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An autumnal view of Cambridge University Library. We see red coloured leaves in the foreground. The library appears in the background, slightly blurred.
The seasons are changing in Cambridge. Term starts on 7 October, and we’re so pleased to see lots of students returning to the city and visiting the University Library. 🍂📚
#AutumnInCambridge #CambridgeUniversity #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Fall
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The Reading Room at Cambridge University Library in 1934 and 2025. Which era do you prefer?
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #OldPhotos
Images:
1. Photograph of the Reading Room in 1934 (Cam.bb.934.7)
2. Photograph of the Reading Room taken in 2025
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Check out the UC San Diego Library's eligibility criteria and application process below 👇
library.ucsd.edu/news-events/...
📸 Erik Jepsen (picture 1) and Katie Gardner (picture 2)
#cambridgeuniversity #cambridgeuniversitylibrary #visitingscholar #AcademicExchange
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Manuscript of medieval body wounds
Urology chart from medieval manuscripts defining how well you are based on your colour of urine.
Manuscript form the curious Cures exhibition
Excellent tour @ Curious Cures: Medicine un the medieval world exhibition at @theul.bsky.social with the CHFHS. What an absolutely fascinating collection highlighting changes and ideologies around how to heal people over the centuries. #Genealogy #Cambridgeuniversitylibrary #history
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New research reveals hidden secrets of 16th century Bibles @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Wales #NationalLibraryofWales #GreatBible #HenryVIII #ThomasCromwell #HiddeninPlainSight #QueenMaryUniversityofLondon #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Bibles
sightmagazine.com.au/news/new-res...
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An old handwritten manuscript with dense, dark script in Latin. We see aa circular diagram divided into labelled segments, surrounded by additional text. The paper appears aged and yellowed.
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In this fifteenth-century manuscript, we see these factors arranged in a diagram, according to their qualities.
Diagram of quaternities, from Henry Daniel (fl. c. 1379), Liber uricrisiarum
England, 15th century
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary, MS Ff.2.6
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Mai Forbes, from our Reader Services team, has painted the most splendid picture of Odysseus! 🐾🎨
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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🐝Did you know we keep bees at the UL? Dr Melonie Schmierer-Lee explains how she cares for our colony of bees, including queen bee, Brontë!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #UrbanBeekeeping #Beekeeping #Cambridge
@meloniesch.bsky.social
Video by Blazej Mikula
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Step this way for a whistle-stop tour of Curious Cures, with its curator Dr James Freeman!
Book your FREE Curious Cures exhibition tickets now: loom.ly/kVqsPRY
#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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The entrance to Cambridge University Library in black and white - with and arched doorway with four windows above, and rising above it a tall tower. A man is leaning against a pillar in front of it.
Cambridge University Library ( @theul.bsky.social ) looking dramatic.
#blackandwhitephotography #library #universitylibrary #cambridge #cambridgeuniversitylibrary
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Almost midsummer, and almost twilight in the Dye Garden @theul.bsky.social
#CULconservation #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #LibraryGardens #Midsummer #DyePlants #PracticeBasedResearch
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Narrated by Dr James Freeman, curator of Curious Cures at #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
Music by Vlad Bakutov from Pixabay
Sound effects by freesound_community from Pixabay
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Special delivery in the North Courtyard! 🦆
#Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Ducklings #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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💀 Body and soul: Checking on my “four humours” and the diagnosis is fascinating at Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World, at Cambridge University Library
🩸 #CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge @theul.bsky.social
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Group photograph from the 1905 eclipse expedition to Labrador
The Maunder Papers are part of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives, which are cared for by Cambridge University Library.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #RoyalObservatoryGreenwich #RGO350
(RGO 205/2/5b)
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Photo of Daffodils at Cambridge University Library. Taken on a spring day with a bright blue sky.
Billions of words, millions of books, and a host of golden daffodils. Are you enjoying springtime at the UL?
#Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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A ginger coloured cat sits at the main door into Cambridge University Library
A study in patience and grace.
Odysseus must have a lot of essays to write this term; he was first in line waiting for his favourite library to open!
📷 by Julian Fuller
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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