We have a new temporary display in the Lower Gallery, 'Visualising Venice'! This display showcases Venice’s popularity as a subject in optical media from the nineteenth century. Open now until 4th September! #Venice #Exhibition #VisualisingVenice #museumsky #Venicesky #filmsky

The novel 'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was published on this day (05 August) in 1938. Our collections include several items relating to 'Rebecca', such as this notebook, which contains chapter outlines for the novel. 📷 EUL MS 144/1/1/4 #OnThisDay #OTD #Archives #LiteraryArchives #DuMaurier

Thanks for your patience! The Old Library and Bill Douglas Cinema Museum are open again

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the owls, for today is their special day! This lovely tawny owl is from a volume of 76 early C19th watercolour illustrations of birds by an unknown artist. 📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #Archives

We had a wonderful first session of #MuseumMondays today! Hope to see you next week for film-themed badge-making and other cinema-related art and craft activities! 🎞️ Drop in on Mondays between 11am-1pm for #free kids' activities throughout August. #museumsky #cinemasky #filmsky

It's still #NationalMarineWeek but we're in a new month so we have a new display in the Reading Room @thembauk.bsky.social. These titles are all about UK marine species and habitats 🦀🐚🦭

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

This city plan of Exeter dates back to 1835! Can you spot the illustration of Exe Bridge? This bridge replaced the medieval Exe Bridge in 1778, and was itself replaced in 1905. 📷 Cartography Coll./A.3.a.iv; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #MapMonday #MondayMaps #MappingOurExeter #Exeter

Happy National Marine Week! Here are some illustrations of algae from Robert Kaye Greville's Algae Brittanicae (1830)

Some fetching vetch to brighten your Friday! 💐 📷 Illustration of 12 different species of vetch from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain' (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691] #FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks

Our collections include many books about the sea & marine life, including 'A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast' (1853) by Philip Henry Gosse. It contains illustrations by Gosse of 240 types of marine organisms! 📷 Reserve 574.94235 GOS #NationalMarineWeek #MarineWeek #RareBooks #Devon

The Bodleian would like to create a modern record of people and their pets. Please feel free to submit photos of you with your pet – either recreations of a postcard, or something new - to socialmedia@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. T&Cs @: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/pets-a...

Since the early days of photography, people have wanted to capture their pets on camera. (Read on to find out why we want to see yours!) These postcards collected by the artist Tom Phillips (1937–2022) are now held in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.

📣 Early announcement 📣 Beloved children's author & illustrator Nick Sharratt is coming to Exeter Library! He will be running a storytime with favourite picture books, live drawing, & plenty of imagination. Perfect for ages 3–7 & their grown-ups. Ticket sales 1st Aug - they're going to be hot!

📷: AC2017-009 Box 7 - Endymion's Cave, Hazel Sims Archive, Falmouth University © Estate of Hazel Sims Our Hazel Sims Archive includes a huge amount of embroidery, one of her lifelong passions. You can find out more about Sims and our other artist archives here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/library/arch...

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Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay 🪡 This wall hanging by Hazel Sims is titled 'Endymion's Cave' in reference to a scene in Greek mythology. The mixture of stiches and threads builds up texture and colour into a striking final design. Measuring over a metre long, it is one of our largest items!

Some friends are worth going the extra mile for! ✨ This photograph from our University Archive shows Henry Hall, a former student of St Luke's College. In 1970, aged 79, he cycled 270 miles to attend his reunion in Exeter. 📷 EUL UA/add.15 Box 2:3 #InternationalDayOfFriendship #UniOfExeterArchive

🚤 Join local author and historian Bob Richards on 15 Aug, 2-3.30pm, for a fascinating free talk on the Victorian passenger ferries of the River Fal. Discover the people, places and waterways that connected Cornish communities. Booking essential. buytickets.at/kresenkernow... #FalFerries

Work of the Week! Coombe Valley Factory, Newlyn by Adrian Ryan Once home to a stamping mill, Sanatogen and Cornish Food Products, the factory produced fish-based fertiliser—much to the dismay of locals who complained about the smell! The chimneys came down in the 1960s.

Our July newsletter is out now! Take a read of everything we've been up to here: tinyurl.com/4bnvan7j Not signed up yet? Be the first to find out about research news, new acquisitions, and upcoming exhibitions and events by signing up here: tinyurl.com/384mptus #newsletter #museumsky #filmsky

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the tigers, for today is their special day! To celebrate International Tiger Day, here is an illustration from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #InternationalTigerDay #TigerDay #RareBooks

We had a lot of fun on Saturday morning recreating Agatha Christie's roller skating exploits on Princess Pier. This will form part of the content for the brand new Agatha Christie Mile app launching in September.

📣TOKYO CALLING📣 Our new temporary #exhibition 'Beyond the Samurai: An Introduction to #Japanese #Cinema' is now on! Running from 23 July to November. Dip your toes into the history of #Japanese #film industry & why not take the summer anime trail or the special digital trail? tinyurl.com/5a6jjv5f

We've found this vibrant illustration from E. Donovan's 'The Natural History of British Fishes' 1808. As Scombus thynnus 📖BL.65/D #NationalMarineWeek #IncredibleJourneys

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💙 Sea Spectacles: July Factsheet 🌊 This month we’re shining a spotlight on the Atlantic bluefin tuna – one of the ocean’s most impressive fish. Known for its incredible speed, long-distance migrations and recent return to UK waters. @thembauk.bsky.social @nmbluk.bsky.social

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The feeling when you've been looking at a handwritten document for an hour and you still can't read THAT word...! This illustration of a sea monster can be found in our sixteenth-century atlas of the counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX

The feeling when you've been looking at a handwritten document for an hour and you still can't read THAT word...! This illustration of a sea monster can be found in our sixteenth-century atlas of the counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX

To find out more about the work the DH Lab does, check out our website and blog: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/dig... digitalhumanities.exeter.ac.uk #RTI #Photogrammetry #Digitisation #3DImaging #DigitalResearch #3D #HASS #DHLab #DigitalHumanities #DH #CatsofBluesky @exeter.ac.uk

It has been quieter in the DH Lab with most of our students away for the summer...Napoleon took the opportunity to sneak into the labs and learn some of the exciting digital methods and equipment we have to offer!🐱 #3DPrint #3DPrinting #Audio #Visual #HASS #Humanities #Digital #DigitalHumanities

This year the DH lab had the pleasure of collaborating with Professor @pascaleexeter.bsky.social on an exciting project exploring the staging possibilities of the Early Modern Whitefriars playhouse! #Digital #Humanities #DHLab #Interns #HASS #Internships #DigitalResearch #3D #3DPrint #3DPrinting

We are seeking an Archives & Special Collections Officer to join our team at the Penryn Campus! This is an exciting opportunity to support archives and special collections services across Falmouth University and @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk. Apply now via the link in our bio. Applications close 16 Aug.