Dr Jill Whitelock
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Pricking & pouncing: the 16th-century photocopier! 🖨️ Piercing tiny holes along an image outline & dusting pigment through created a dotted guide for copying drawings. 🔍 #CULConservation Manager Shaun Thompson spotted this in Thomas Geminus’ 450-year-old anatomy book. 📖 Classmark: K.7.15
Common restharrow, Rock samphire, Lady’s bedstraw and Sea beet at St Hywyn’s Churchyard, Aberdaron. #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour
Sea mayweed and Sea thrift, and a hovering Scaeva pyrastri, at Morfa Nefyn. #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour
A beautiful Volucella inanis on Hemp agrimony, Garret Hostel Lane, Cambridge. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera
Helophilus pendulus, ‘The footballer’, from Edward Donovan’s ‘The natural history of British insects’, vol. 1 (London, 1792). S391.c.79.1 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social #Hoverflies #Diptera
Hard to beat a day spent unfurling long-furled geological wall charts held in the @theul.bsky.social, from painted Humboldtian vistas to a full set of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's diagrams of extinct animals. A treasure trove.
‘Fossils Unearthed’: a new blogpost written by three of this year’s Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, @arnoldke.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hoiem and Conall Treen. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/ccc-ecr...
CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed - Collections Connections Communities
CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed Dr Katharine Arnold, Dr Elizabeth Hoiem, Dr Conall Treen, Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, 2025-2026 During the first we...
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High(ly) Victorian book cover: Margaret Plues's Rambles in Search of Ferns (1861).
Waiting for me at the end of a walk in the woods, a magnificent female Volucella pellucens. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves #Hoverflies #Diptera 📷 #photography
I encountered this beautiful Red Admiral on a walk this evening - it amused itself by settling on my finger on my camera's shutter release before posing on a nearby tree 📷 #photography
Up close with a Cambridge Heron, Garret Hostel Lane.
Women, Water and Wellbeing 🌊 Join us for an online event that explores the power of water. Our panel will share the moments that shaped their relationship with water and inspired a deep sense of belonging. 📅Tuesday 25 August ⏰7-8pm 📍 Online 🎟️ Free & open to all: https://loom.ly/sKnsc6E
