Join @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social‬ Visiting Fellow @aliceparrinello.bsky.social for a colloquium about 'The Waste Question: Landscapes of toxicity and resistance in Southern Italy' on 10 June at the Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP Register at: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50911

The Star Wars Day x Medieval Monday mash up that no-one asked for or wanted... May the Fourth be with you. All images available on Digital Bodleian: MS. Douce 178, fol. 049v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79r; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 21v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79v #MedievalMonday

The MMLL Library is lucky enough to have several subscriptions to foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Our favourite arrival of the week is Zeit Magazin, as there’s always a delicious recipe inside!🥗   Find these filed together in our Student Room at Q.FOOD.27!   #UniversityofCambridge

Happy bank holiday weekend!🐣🐑 This is your reminder that the MMLL Library will be closed from 3rd-6th April, reopening on 7th with our vacation hours of 9am-5pm on weekdays. Photo by Alice Boagey📷

All sorts of surprises appearing as we sort through book returns this vacation! What kind of things have you found inside a library book?   #UniversityofCambridge

There are still a few tickets left for the launch of Living Water tomorrow night! loom.ly/FSLQWrg

All you need to know about your library loans over the holidays!🫡

It’s here! Our Year Abroad Photography Exhibition is up and ready to provide a nice dose of end-of-term escapism🌍 Our thanks go to Dott. Claudia Domenici for her assistance in coordinating the exhibition, and to the the MMLL Faculty for their contributions to funding. #UniversityofCambridge

Oscars looks 🤝 medieval manuscripts Some of these outfits felt suspiciously familiar, so we went digging in the collections… #MedievalMonday Shelfmarks: MS. Bodl. 265 fols. 58r, 60r; MS. Douce 364, fol. 61v; MS. Douce 195, fol. 003r

We are excited to announce the launch of our Year Abroad Photography Exhibition, in collaboration with the MMLL Faculty and Dott. Claudia Domenici.   It will be displayed from 16th-20th March in the first instance, so pop by then for some end-of-term escapism and year abroad inspo🎨📷

#WorldBookDay faves from the MMLL Library!   A comic on Leonardo DiCaprio's dating history, German cosy crime 'Miss Merkel', a guide to cycling in Switzerland (in Romansh!) and culinary heritage from across the post-Soviet diaspora.

About last night…📚🍷 We were delighted to host a book launch event for ‘Digital Media, Memory and Heritage in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro: Reproducing the Past for the Present’ by Dr Victoria Adams. Victoria completed her PhD at Cambridge and spent a year working with us in the MMLL Library!

Meet some members of the extended library team🤝🪴 Any punny suggestions for us? #UnivesityofCambridge

🌍 The new MMLL Faculty website has launched! www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/library @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social

On Tuesday 24 February, join the Ambivalent Archives research group on a visit to the British Library to consider a range of print material, practice hands-on engagement, and consider the British Library's role in archiving in the UK today. 📚 Find out more about the visit: https://bit.ly/3ZmM7Af

POV: you’re studying in the MMLL Library… Everyone’s study set up looks different and we can help make yours work for you. We can lend you laptops, chargers, adapters, headphones, ear defenders, book rests, writing slopes and laptop stands. And books too, obviously! 💻📚🎧

February marks LGBT+ History Month, and at MMLL we have gathered material tracing queer history across the MMLL collections!🏳️‍🌈   Across criticism, theatre, fiction and memoir the exhibition touches upon Nazi persecution, queer exile in fascist Italy, LGBT activism in Eastern Europe and more.

Can you decipher anything from the photo below?🤷‍♀️💭📷 As well as stocking commonly taught languages like Spanish, German and Russian, the MMLL Library hold books on Basque, Romansh and even ‘Emojitaliano’! #UniversityofCambridge

Snow on Sidge❄️ A wintery welcome back as we reopen! Pop by 9am - 5pm on weekdays for the remainder of the vacation.

The end of another term is in sight! Well done to all those finishing up on essays, articles and teaching! You may be wondering what to do with your library books as you head off for the holidays - except for short loans you can keep them all over the vacation!

Relive the recent symposium on La Noire de… at the MMLL Library with our new exhibition! Put together in collaboration with Dr Doyle Calhoun for the symposium, it combines Ousmane Sembène’s films and literary works, along with relevant scholarship.📚

Happy Bridgemas!⛄️ Look out for multilingual crocheted Christmas trees around the library foyer, and for some festive treats at Tea & Biscuits!

Call for papers 🌊 Thalassopoetics: Ocean readings in French When we consider French literary traditions from the sea rather than the land, what perspectives does it give us, and what questions are we prompted to ask? 20-21 April 2026 Murray Edwards College Deadline 31 Dec 2025 bit.ly/47S2nyb

Our current exhibition is based around events happening locally to mark Black History Month, with a focus on audio/visual culture, from music and art to black divas throughout history.🎨🎼 Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!

If you've been in the library recently you may have noticed the cabins for the Stirling Building refurbishment blocking some windows. Not to fear - we've replaced these with some sights we'd all much rather be looking out on!   Can you identify these dream Year Abroad destinations?

Good morning. We are aware that selective ebooks platforms are down. These include JSTOR, EBSCOhost, Taylor & Francis and BorrowBox (audiobooks). We believe that a major contributing factor is the disruption to Amazon Web Services, health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Lauren Berlant reading group 📚 Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4nFi9C0

Welcome to all those arriving in Cambridge for the new academic year!🍂📚 Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening at the MMLL Library in advance of the new term🧵 - Cozy lighting in the Student Room. - English-language fiction translated into Tripos languages.

Over the holidays we’ve been busy with book moves and collection expansion at MMLL!    We’ve added a selection of foreign-language cookbooks and popular fiction translated from English into MMLL Tripos languages - look out for speech bubbles marking this on the books’ spines💬 #UniversityofCambridge

At MMLL we’ve been tracking the beautiful ginkgo trees outside the library throughout the seasons!🌳 As we come to summer, the library will be closing to allow for staff annual leave and book move projects. We will be closed from 4th-26th August inclusive.

💥 CRASSH at 25! Be part of our 2026 anniversary programme! Submit your ideas in response to our anniversary open calls for a special annual lecture and a series of funded half-day events on the theme of 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' buff.ly/MdzMVzX

🎤 in this Q&A, CIRN Fellow Pietro Agnoletto tells us about his upcoming event ‘Reimagining Ecologies in Italian Visual Culture’, which takes place on 11 June at CRASSH, and explores how environmental humanities can engage with the value placed on 'nature' and environmental issues bit.ly/43HcXok

As you can imagine, the books we purchase for MMLL are shipped from all over the world.📦 We’ve recently started collecting the gorgeous stamps which arrive on these parcels in order to make them into magnets as a small Easter term freebie!

Cambridge is getting busy with students settling back in for Easter term! We’re taking this opportunity to also welcome some new punny trolleys to the library trolley team: meet Gabriel Cartcía Márquez, Bookrecia Martel, Cartemisia Gentileschi and Samuel Bookett!

📣The University of Cambridge now has online access to over 50 Latin American newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century!   You can find the full collection via the University's A-Z of databases or by searching for the newspapers on iDiscover.   libguides.cam.ac.uk/az/databases...

🌇 Join us for '#EntangledCities: Spaces of improvisation in contemporary Latin American urban culture' Explore how Latin American urban cultures open new ways of thinking through improvisation and creative assemblage 2-3 May 2025 St Catharine's College, Cambridge Register at buff.ly/qJytl9r 1/3

New MMLL reads!📚 Look out for these on our new book displays around the library. Here is also a quick reminder that the MMLL Library will be closing at 4pm every day next week, and that we’ll be closed from 18th-21st April. Happy Holidays!

Absolutely incredible stamp game on this recently arrived parcel at MMLL! Who thinks we should turn some of these into magnets?👀

💫 Cambridge Festival Fairy-Tale Mirages: A creative storytelling workshop 👨‍👩‍👦 Adults 🗓️ 22 March 4.30-6pm 📍 CB3 9DP 🎟️ buff.ly/TduEwyf Dive into fairy tales from the Mediterranean sea & activities based on Sicilian and Calabrian fairy tales that feature liminal sea creatures

To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay, we've gathered some resources which spotlight women in film - from criticism and journals to films by female filmmakers from around the world. You can also find details about streaming platforms which University members can access - Sunday plans sorted!🍿

If you’re at the library today or tomorrow, have a break in the sun and check out the 48-hour installation Sur place & À emporter by Sébastien Hoëltzener and Nina Rendulić, co-ordinated by Prof Hugo Azérad. A description of the installation can be found here: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/sur-p...

The first week of spring felt like a fitting time to join Bluesky! Blue skies at MMLL this week featured below☀️