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Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 7h ago

What do Cambridge Librarians read on holiday? 😎📚 Add these to your TBR pile! Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman The Correspondent, Virginia Evans The Inugami Curse, Seishi Yokomizo The Alienation Effect, Owen Hatherley The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse The Women of Troy, Pat Barker

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Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 6d ago

This summer has been a challenging time for gardeners! ☀️🌱 We have a hosepipe ban in the East of England, so our Conservation team have diligently been watering the Dye Garden by hand. It may look rather dry, but we have successfully harvested hollyhock flowers and woad seeds.🌿👩‍🌾

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Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 7d ago

Visiting the UL? Take a moment to pause and appreciate the artwork by Susan Derges, currently on display in the North and South Corridors. 🏛️ 🛍️ A limited-edition Susan Derges print is available in our shop! 📍Susan’s artwork is on display until December 2026. #LivingWater

Back view of a blonde woman wearing a blue lace top, standing close to and admiring a large, framed abstract artwork hanging on a wall.A person holding up a framed art print featuring a vibrant blue water surface with silhouetted tree branches and rippling reflection patterns.
Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · last wk.

⚠️ Notice for Today (Wed 29 July): The Reader Services desk in the Main Reading Room has moved to The Commonwealth Room. Please head there for all book distribution and enquiries. The Main Reading Room is still open as a study space. Keep cool and stay safe, everyone!

A photograph of the Commonwealth Room at Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · last wk.

These papyrus fragments of Homer's Odyssey date to the 2nd century CE! They were written in Egypt – using early Greek uncial script, a well-practised formal bookhand of the time – roughly 800 years after the original versions of the Odyssey were composed (around 700–650 BCE). MS Add.4074

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Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026 have begun! 🥇 Scotland has hosted the Games on four occasions: Edinburgh twice, in 1970 and 1986, and Glasgow twice, in 2014 and this year. These leaflets from the Royal Commonwealth Society Collections at the UL are from the 1970 Edinburgh Games (RCS 1-11f).

Vintage souvenir brochure for the 1970 Commonwealth Games titled "SCOTLAND 70". The central cover shows an illustration of athletes walking past Edinburgh Castle under a sky filled with colourful flags from participating nations, flanked by red and blue promotional booklets.
Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today marks 100 years since Rudyard Kipling donated a manuscript of his poem ‘If—' to Cambridge University Library. Later this year, the manuscript will go on display at Kipling’s family home, Bateman’s in Sussex. MS Add.6850. England, c. 1910

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University of Cambridge@cam.ac.uk · 4w ago

Did you know @theul.bsky.social's tower is one of the tallest buildings in Cambridge? 📚 Opened in 1934 and standing at 157 feet tall, it remains one of the city's most recognisable landmarks. Can you guess which College this view of the tower was captured from? 📸 Lloyd Mann

A person walks through a grassy field surrounded by lush trees, with the Cambridge University Library tower visible in the background under a clear blue sky.
Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 3w ago

We think this is a medieval footie fan off to apply liberal use of vuvuzela. England fans may be glumly updating the lyrics of Three Lions (64 years of hurt!) but we hope you enjoy the last World Cup weekend. Image: Fragmentary Psalter (MS Add. 4085). Flanders, late 13th or early 14th C.

A close-up detail of a colourful medieval illuminated manuscript illustration. It features a stylised figure wearing a long blue tunic. They are performing two tasks at once: blowing into a small trumpet or pipe held in one hand, while simultaneously holding a round tambourine or tabor drum in the other. To the left, fragments of ornate Latin script in dark brown and red ink are visible on the aged parchment background.
Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many years ago, a snake shed its skin in Norfolk. A clergyman and naturalist, Revett Sheppard, found it and pasted it into his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’. Sheppard (1779-1830) began his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’ in 1798, when he was a young student in Cambridge. #WorldSnakeDay MS Add.9839/22/1

A high-angle, close-up photograph of an open historic manuscript journal or notebook. Pressed onto the left-hand page, under the heading "May", is a preserved piece of textured, golden-brown shed snake skin, showing distinct rows of small diamond-shaped scales alongside larger, horizontal belly scales. Below the snake skin, an inscription in elegant cursive ink handwriting reads: "Part of the slough of a snake which I found in the channel fen at Barton in Norfolk famous for rare Insects and plants and much resorted to by me at the time I was with Mr Forby."
Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 4w ago

Accurate representation of us watching an England World Cup match. How about you? Anxious mess, or riding the rollercoaster with your hands in the air? 👇 The nervous lion is from the Cambridge University Library Bestiary MS Ii.4.26, an English manuscript from the early 13th century.

A medieval manuscript page showing a rather nervous-looking lion, set against a patterned background.