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University of Exeter Special Collections

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Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps. There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome. Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives

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Falmouth & Exeter Uni Archives @fxuniarchives.bsky.social · yesterday

You can find the Tristan and Yseult scripts, and much more, in our #KneehighTheatre Archive. Find out more: www.falmouth.ac.uk/library/arch... 📷: AC2015-001 Box 3 – Tristan and Yseult script, Kneehigh Theatre Archive, Falmouth University © Kneehigh Theatre #TheatreHistory #TheatreArchives

Performance and Writing Archives

Playwrights, novelists and theatre companies captured through their process, practice and performance histories.

falmouth.ac.uk

Falmouth & Exeter Uni Archives @fxuniarchives.bsky.social · yesterday

The story of #TristanAndYseult starts in 2003, when it was co-commissioned for performances at Restormel Castle and Rufford Abbey. Director Emma Rice got Anna Maria Murphy and Carl Grose to write contrasting narrative voices, blending courtly restraint with the lovers' emotional perspectives.

Photograph of the first page of the script for Tristan and Yseult.

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · yesterday

Did you know our archives contain thousands of letters, just waiting to be read? 💌 Why not get started now by visiting our online PenPals exhibit, which explores correspondence between South-West writers! ➡️ specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/exhibits/sho... #WorldPostDay #PostDay #Archives

Cropped image from an exhibition board relating to Charles Causley. It shows a black and white photograph of Causley as a young man sitting at a writing desk, with a siamese cat sitting on top of the desk. The photograph has been fashioned into a stamp. Above the photograph is typed: 'EUL MS 50a/PERS/2/2/2/10 Photographer: R.L. Knight Ltd'. And below the photograph is typed 'Causley at his writing desk with pet cat'.

Kresen Kernow @kresenkernow.bsky.social · yesterday

🥚 Happy World Egg Day! This egg and spoon race at Liskeard Young Farmers sports was photographed by George Ellis and featured in the Cornish Guardian on 27 June 1940. The original glass plate negative was badly damaged, but careful digital restoration brought it back to life. 📷🥚

University of Exeter Library @exeterunilib.bsky.social · yesterday

This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore our digital & print collections celebrating Black history, culture, voices & experiences. Find reading lists, eBooks, databases, films & more via our #BHM LibGuide and displays at the entrances to Forum & St Luke's libraries. libguides.exeter.ac.uk/BHM

A light and dark green-striped background with a screenshot of the Black History Month resources page, and 'Celebrate Black History Month 2026 with the Library' and a link to the Black History Month LibGuide in white text.

MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · yesterday

Continuing with the cephalopod love it's #NautilusNight To shell-ebrate we have this beautiful illustration of the shell of the chambered nautilus, taken from the 18th Century book on shells by GW Knorr

Two colored scientific illustrations of nautilus shells in cross-section, showing spiral chambers and handwritten labels.

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 2d ago

Check out this beautiful octopus from our friends at @nmbluk.bsky.social for #WorldOctopusDay! 😍

MBA Library@nmbluk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy #WorldOctopusDay to all our eight armed friends 🐙 Given the recent attention on octopus blooms in south west England we thought we would share this wonderful illustration of the common octopus 📖 Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles

Vintage scientific illustration of an octopus with spread arms, detailed textured skin and muted brown-green coloration.

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869. 📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN #WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

Cropped image showing an engraving of an octopus

Full-page engraving from a book. It shows an octopus lying on the seabed, with a squid and a cuttlefish coming towards. The cuttlefish is making a cloud. The engraving is captioned: 'Plate XI. A Poulpe. A Cuttle-Fish Making His Cloud. A Calmar'.

Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · 3d ago

📢 The Exeter Young City Laureate for 2026-27 is Emily Reynolds. literatureworks.org.uk/announcing-e...

Announcing Exeter's new Young City Laureate - Literature Works

We are thrilled to announce that the Exeter Young City Laureate for 2026-27 is Emily Reynolds. At Literature Works, we are ambitious to support and develop Exeter’s young voices for the future and the...

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MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 3d ago

Delighted to be supporting this event by @lightbearlane.org to bring the wonder of magic lanterns to life in Exeter's oldest building, St Nicholas' Priory. We will be contributing a pop-up display of our extensive collections. Tickets available here: lnkd.in/eEZXzRh5 #magiclanternsky #cinemasky

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 3d ago

On 07 October 1889, the (New) Theatre Royal opened in Exeter. It was demolished in 1962. Our collections include many items relating to the Theatre Royal, including 2,383 playbills! #OnThisDay #TheatreHistory #TheatreArchives #Archives #Exeter #ExeterHistory @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social

Colourised postcard showing the last Theatre Royal on the corner of Longbrook Street and New North Road.

Five Theatre Royal (Exeter) playbills dating from 1891 to 1932

The Devon and Exeter Institution @dexinst.bsky.social · 4d ago

Are you a student interested in the history of medicine? 🔎📜Why not drop in to our free Dissertation Inspiration session to learn more about our collection! There are plenty of opportunities to conduct original research here at the DEI! Tuesday 20th October, 2-4pm

Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · 4d ago

🌊If you could write a letter to the sea, what would it say? ✉️ It’s our pleasure to share a new digital anthology showcasing writing by local people created during Dr Rosemarie Corlett’s period as Plymouth Laureate of Words 2023-2025. literatureworks.org.uk/letters-to-t...

Letters to the Sea - Literature Works

Letters to the Sea is a new digital anthology showcasing writing by local people created during Dr Rosemarie Corlett’s period as Plymouth Laureate of Words 2023-2025. Rose began Letters to the Sea a...

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 4d ago

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalBadgerDay #BadgerDay #RareBooks

Cropped image from a book, showing a colour illustration of a badger standing on a patch of grass, painted in shades of black, white and green.

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 5d ago

🕵️‍♂️Happy James Bond Day to those who celebrate! Today marks the anniversary of the London premier of Dr No in 1962🔫 Speculation is rife about who will be the next James Bond - who would you choose? #filmsky #jamesbondday #007 #drno

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 5d ago

This map by Benjamin Donn was produced as part of a 12-sheet map of Devon in 1765. Donn was awarded £100 from the Royal Society for the Arts for the best 1 inch to a mile survey of an English county. 📷 Townsend Maps T8; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #MapMonday #MondayMaps #MappingOurExeter

Black-and-white engraved county map of Devon. The map shows towns, villages, roads, rivers and coastal features throughout Devon, with Lundy Island depicted off the north-west coast. Includes an ornate title cartouche, compass rose, scale bar and graticule border. Printed on laid paper with visible fold marks and age-related discolouration.

The Plymouth Proprietary Library @theppl.bsky.social · 5d ago

Recent article in the Plymouth Post.: plymouthpost.uk/plymouth-ent...

Inside one of Plymouth’s oldest surviving libraries

In St Barnabas Terrace is an institution that has survived war, fire and more than two centuries of change.

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Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy World Teacher Day! 👩‍🏫 School is Out, 1889, by Elizabeth Adela Forbes This painting depicts the schoolroom in the small village of Paul, just outside Newlyn. The small boy is Richard Vivian Spargo, whose two elder sisters are the red-haired girls laughing at him.

An oil painting of a schoolroom with a teacher, children in period clothing, wooden desks, a map on the wall, and sunlight streaming through a door.

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 5d ago

A century ago, trainee teachers at St Luke's College followed strict rules, including a ban on riding bicycles on Sundays! Explore this and other fascinating insights into student life in the 1920s in our new exhibition at St Luke's Library. #WorldTeachersDay #Exeter #Archives #UniOfExeterArchive

Dark green box in which is written on the left in white text 'New Special Collections Exhibition at St Luke’s Library! Back to the 1920s: Exploring life at St Luke’s 100 years ago through the University Archive. This exhibition is available to visit on the ground floor of the Library on the University of Exeter’s St Luke’s Campus.' On the right is a photograph with a light green border. The photograph shows a display case with four shelves, on which a range of photographs, documents and objects are displayed.

Kresen Kernow @kresenkernow.bsky.social · last wk.

🚐 Long before modern caravan parks, families were bringing horse-drawn caravans onto Hayle Towans for summer holidays. This 1913 photograph from the Blight family collection shows one of the earliest known holiday caravans on the dunes. 🌊#JourneysExhibition #Hayle

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 New Stipends Call to Research at the Museum Now Open for UK and international researchers and practitioners! For details on how to apply, please visit our website: www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/new-sti... Deadline: 5pm on Monday 9 November 2026. #researchsky #museumsky #filmsky

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · last wk.

Believe it or nut - it's already October! 🍂 We hope you all have a lovely weekend. 📷 Illustration of oak, hazelnut & hornbeam from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691] #FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks

Photograph of an opened book featuring a full-page colour illustration of leaves, flowers and fruit of the Common British Oak, the Hazelnut tree and the Hornbeam tree.

The Devon and Exeter Institution @dexinst.bsky.social · last wk.

Have you ever wondered what life was like inside Dartmoor Prison? October's Book of the Month blog explores the history of 'Five Years’ Penal Servitude, by One who has endured it' (1878), an anonymous account of a sentence served there in the 1870s. devonandexeterinstitution.org/a-devilish-b...

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · last wk.

It's #NationalPoetryDay today 📝 We hold over 40 collections relating to South West writers, this includes the papers of the Cornish poet & writer Jack Clemo. Clemo's work was often inspired by the Cornish landscape and wildlife, as shown in this poem 'Gulls Nesting Inland'🪶 📷: EUL MS 68/Lit/3/6

Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter @dhlabexeter.bsky.social · last wk.

Happy National Poetry Day! Here at the University of Exeter Digital Humanities Lab we are celebrating by looking back on our collaboration with Professor Hugh Roberts and his work on Ukrainian wartime poetry! He kindly provided this write up about how the Lab and intern team helped his project:

MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · last wk.

Wow, October really crept up on us. But that means it's time for a new Reading Room display @thembauk.bsky.social This month we're celebrating our spectacular (and occasionally tentacular) chums - the #cephalopods #octopus #squid #cuttlefish 🐙🦑

A photograph of three bookshelves lined with books, covers facing out, all about cephalopods

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery @rammuseum.bsky.social · last wk.

Read all about 'Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi' in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Opens this Saturday! Book tickets at ramm.uk/Liv-Lab

Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi

Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · last wk.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the raccoons, for today is their special day! This woodcut of a raccoon was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg. 📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio #InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay #RareBooks

Cropped image of a page in an opened book. In the centre of the page is a large woodcut illustration of a raccoon. The title in Latin above it reads 'Mapach'.

Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · last wk.

Tomorrow at 7pm, our online writing group First Thursday Writers begins - everyone welcome, pay what you can. Book your space here: www.ticketsource.com/literature-w...

"First Thursday Writers - A monthly group to nurture your creative spark" at Online

Tickets are now available for First Thursday Writers - A monthly group to nurture your creative spark at Online, Online on Thursday 1st October 2026 at 7:00PM. Click the link for further information a...

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