Happy Lunar New Year! This beautiful specimen is from our 1668 edition of 'Markham's master-piece ... touching on curing all diseases in horses', a seminal text on horse care #LunarYear #YearOfTheHorse

‘If you asked anyone in 1610, what’s Shakespeare famous for, they would likely have said, oh, that terrific poem ‘Venus and Adonis’ – God, I enjoyed that.’ Mark Ford on Shakespeare’s narrative poems on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Did Valentine's Day pass and you still aren't sure if you are doing this romance thing right?🤔 Yeah, we don't know either. But every day is a good day to find an ebook you love. Click the link below to explore some of the things random items we ❤️love❤️ in our collection. tinyurl.com/3ft9t2am

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

👑Ahead of our new production of Henry V, we brought Alfred Enoch, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Hassall, and Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey together to reflect on Shakespeare's epic history play. Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg

Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe... 👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮 Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

One for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SHAPE) researchers interested in open science, and hot off the press (as well as, naturally, open access).

*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England* An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️ Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

This World Day of The Sick we take time to remember those in our lives who are unwell. Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar, is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing. Purchase via: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...

Many people interested in Ros' research! You might like to know that Professor Oates is giving a keynote lecture at this year's Reformation Studies Colloquium in April. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

For the Material/Visual culture enthusiasts?

The EFL's Monday morning #vibe. 💤🐢🪄🧚📖📚 #MoonMad

Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking [caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...

"What [Shakespeare Curriculum] does - if you're a young person, put yourself in the mindset of an actor, or a director, or the set designer." RSC Trustee Geoff discusses the impact of rehearsal room techniques on young people's learning More on Shakespeare Curriculum👉 www.shakespearecurriculum.com

Join our lunchtime Research Practice Seminars ✏️ Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice All welcome! https://bit.ly/3LYjCFL

Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.

Did you know that the EFL subscribes to the LRB and you can read the most recent copies in the library? Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!

From our Close Readings subscription podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford begin a new series with the treatment of desire in a poem that contains one of the most explicit depictions of sex in English poetry – Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Mini-article out now Open Access in Notes & Queries – take a look for my theory of what Wulfstan II means by ‘injustice in the north’ (spoiler: Vikings and weird legal stuff in the Danelaw) doi.org/10.1093/note... #Medievalsky #Medievalists

Coming soon! "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd ANNNNND it will be open access!

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an award winning poet, translator and professor @tcddublin.bsky.social, who served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019. Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. What is her advice for young poets? 🧵⬇️

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!

📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings! 👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students. 🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4

Of especial interest for UK researchers, research institutes/organisations and/or partnerships with higher education expertise and the ability to measure social & cultural infrastructure. Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2

A miniature battle for 'Freedom' at the edge of the paper landscape... A poetic doodle from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Notebook 'X' (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social O.15.17). cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-O-00...

Today (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME. If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026

Edward George's 'Black Atlas' exhibit is open at the Warburg Institute (London) until 31 January!

⏯️GOOD NEWS! New linguistics mnemonic just dropped. 🎤✒️👂🕶️

A poem by John Kelly as it first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.

'Our Ukrainian Robert Burns' Tues 27 Jan. 6.30pm FREE Hanna Dyka talks about translating Robert Burns into Ukrainian and latest bilingual publication of Ukrainian translations of Burns’ poems. Also features recitals of Burns' poetry in Ukrainian and Scots. www.ticketsource.co.uk/edinburgh-ce...

In advance of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize readings on 18 January I was invited to write a short piece about my experience when A Change in the Air @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social was shortlisted for the 2023 prize.

The EFL awoke from our long winter nap to a new year, and new #SlowShakespeare from Cam English's own brilliant Hester Lees-Jeffries! Follow along daily with #MoodMad as @starcrossed2018.bsky.social critically interprets Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and scenes through the years. 🌕🧚🥀🎭

The EFL staff counting the sleeps till #MoonMad....✨😴🕯️🌕 #SlowShakespeare

Are you an early career researcher in the arts & humanities with bold ideas? Apply for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and join a world-class research community. · Develop your vision · Access tailored support · Shape the future of your field Apply: https://ow.ly/jxqz50XIkpu

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

People ask what being a #medieval scholar is like. #EveryDayImCodexing #ReferencingProblems

Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨ Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels. Now on display at the Weston Library. #JaneAusten

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, born #OTD in 1775. For those needing an escape from the shopping crowds pop into The Wren Library to see the display or books and modern manuscripts related to her work. Weekdays 12-2pm. Try the parlour game quiz on Emma. Examiner's report to follow...

🚨 CfP 🚨 We are delighted to announce our Lent term call for papers, deadline 13 January 2026! This term we are accepting work on any theme - we look very forward to receiving your abstracts!

Deadline is just two weeks away! But DM them now if you're looking for a panel.

There are loads of great online tools & gadgets that can help you with a wide range of tasks. But how do you judge its quality? 💻🤔 Find out how to evaluate online tools for their relevance to your purpose & use them to the best effect 👉 https://ow.ly/OYeX50XxZaO #BeingDigital

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 11 is 'When Nobody Was Watching' from 'What Remains the Same' by Alvy Carragher 💖 @thegallerypress.bsky.social

We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh "My father played the melodion Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east And they danced to his music."

Is there a Caxton on your shelves? It's not a Caxton if you find ... A Title page; Roman or Italic print; Use of Commas; Catchwords. --- William Blades, How to Tell a Caxton: With Some Hints where and how the Same Might be Found (1870) #printing #library #publishing #medieval #books

❄️☃️The EFL will close our doors at 5pm on Friday 19 December, and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 5 January for staff winter leave. ☃️❄️ Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖

Write an essay to win £500 📝 Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize. This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members. Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025 Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc

Medieval historian Dr Krisztina Ilko (@queens.cam.ac.uk) challenges major assumptions about the medieval Catholic Church and early Renaissance. Forgotten medieval miracles are brought to light in her new book 'The Sons of St Augustine', published today by Oxford University Press ⬇️⬇️

We are really looking forward to a fantastic @ssnci.bsky.social conference in @maynoothuniversity.ie next June! CfP Deadline 1 Feb 2026!

Nice article on Brontëmania with a link to this news article on Wandering Imaginations, modern short stories written by English and Ghanaian authors inspired by the Brontë’s fantasy land Angria, mapped onto West Africa