One cat per mouse Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social

Famed British photographer Samuel Bourne traveled extensively in India during the 1860s. He had an eye for the perfect shot, but was his pursuit of perfection detrimental to local labour, knowledge and histories? #PhotoHistory Chirantan Banik delves deeper: www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...

We've got enough we could probably form a whole band - 'The Badly Drawn Elephants' perhaps? cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...

Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩 A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...

👏 Thanks to our amazing team, millions of Kew's specimens are already accessible globally — with even more to come. Dive into the Kew Data Portal now to explore our collections! 🌱 data.kew.org

Will you be doing the Danse Macabre tonight or jumping on your steed to run and hide under the duvet? #Halloween 1) The Dance of Death, Nuremberg Chronicle (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...) 2) The Cambridge Bestiary (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...) 😱 💀 👻 🧙‍♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈

Requiem for a hillfort Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows 📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️ 📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002 #HillfortsWednesday

The application portal for the 2026 Cultural Heritage Data School is officially open 🥁 Join us from 13-17 April 2026 to explore the theme 'Critically Engaging Audiences with Cultural Heritage Data'. Early bird deadline: 23 Nov Virtual Q&A: 10 Nov Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

Female drummers and playing harp to a real King who is sick. The Bahun psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...

Today our team member @annabregermusic.bsky.social tells her story - “Many little twists and turns have brought me to where I am now and I am absolutely thrilled about my interdisciplinary research project working on image analysis and historical music manuscripts.” ➡️ hermathsstory.eu/anna-breger/

The Life continues on through the Battle of Hastings, shown here in almost Guernica-like style. There's lots more to explore in the manuscript which is digitized here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0... Read there about possible authoriship by Matthew Paris!

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪 @crossref.bsky.social

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Tomorrow, we're back with another episode of Absolute Units! We continue speaking with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social about the history of the commons and resistance to enclosure, this time focusing closer to the present day. Expect riots, raves, Stonehenge, golf, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

...And you thought you were stretched too thin! 😬 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...

For Michaelmas, here's a fine St. Michael I hadn't seen before, in Alexander of Bremen's commentary on the Apocalypse, CUL MS Mm.5.31, fol. 78v. #medievalsky Digitized MS here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MM-0...

Dear #Cambridge PhD and Research Students, Come apply for our brand new @thinklab.bsky.social project with Wikipedia to investigate how AI meets standards of accuracy, attribution & transparency! Help shape policy & the future of open knowledge. Apply by Oct 10 → bit.ly/applythinkla...

There's always time for a #TeaBreak! This photo is from the wonderful archive of Classicist Joyce M. Reynolds, which is full of records relating to the Roman provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania (modern day Libya). cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CLAS...

There's always time for a #TeaBreak! This photo is from the wonderful archive of Classicist Joyce M. Reynolds, which is full of records relating to the Roman provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania (modern day Libya). cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CLAS...

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge

21st September is the feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, who is depicted here with his angelic symbol in the Book of Cerne. Cambridge University Library; MS Ll.1.10; the Book of Cerne; 9th century; Mercia; (c. 820-840 C.E.); f. 2v @camdiglib.bsky.social

Also, if you are into the medieval-renaissance printing press illustratory thing AND like a German flavor (as I do), you can access quality scans of the Nuremberg Chronicle courtesy of Cambridge. This color palette! Love! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...

🟠 #RLUKICIL | Re-entangling the visual archive | 23 Sep Join us next Tues to hear reflections on @theul.bsky.social project with Zambian visual artists exploring new ways to engage with problematic archival material & collaborating outside library’s ‘traditional’ user base 🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKICIL

What can you learn from a book you can’t read? This visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at @theul.bsky.social explores how the colour red offers meaning and enchantment beyond language. www.theheritagelab.in/visual-readi...

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳 Here's Hollingbury Camp, a wonderful univallate Early Iron Age subsquare hillfort at the NE edge of Brighton East #Sussex Aerial 📷 © 1948 K-D100 from the excellent CUCAP archive @camdiglib.bsky.social cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...

Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183) Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...

Join us online from 3:30pm on 25 September for a webinar about about two research and development collaborations funded by XR Network+ that are using Virtual Production technologies to advance the capabilities of digital simulations. Register your free place: hubs.li/Q03CwKvP0

Q: When is it a good thing that life is dragon you round in circles? A: When it's these dragons doing the dragin! Check out the recently digitised Christ’s College Statutes, the ‘Treasury’ copy, from 1506! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI...

Queen Caroline visited the 70-year-old Flamsteed, and 41-year-old observatory in 1716, where, she told Leibniz, "instead of the stars I had the most beautiful view of the world." She added, "His house and his figure have the air of Merlin." #histsci

🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪 With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

Not quite the #perseids, but Newton's observations of the comet of 1682! #astronomy #sky #lookup cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

As promised, we will have an online Wiki session on 26 August. You'll need to register to get the Zoom link. Come along and help us redress the gender and racial imbalances on Wikipedia's medieval topics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:M... #MAMOmonth #MedievalWiki

Hidden treasures of Cambridge Digital Library: Take a look at some of the unexpected discoveries amongst the lesser known collections of @CamDigLib#libraries #archives #digitalcollections ow.ly/DKq250AsEzO

Please share the post above with your networks, many thanks @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @camdiglib.bsky.social @cser.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social @cst.cam.ac.uk @eflcam.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social

That famous old red squirrel saying: "Whilst the naked soldier fights grotesques in the margins, Thou shouldst sit up and look cute in the corner." Have fun exploring the margins of this book of Psalter fragments (MS Add. 4085)! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

Happy birthday to Alfred Tennyson, born #OTD in 1809! Best known for his poetry, Tennyson was also a keen doodler. The Trinity alum drew this face in his notebook while drafting 𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘮. (Trinity College MS, O.15.13)

We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September. Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Tatwine's riddles survive in 2 MSS, one of which is the famous Cambridge Songs MS, CUL MS Gg.5.35, digitized here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-0...

An amazing project! & my personal favourite is CUL MS Dd.10.44, for which I was delighted to write the catalogue introduction last year, after studying it for my MPhil manuscript project long ago!: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...

Collaboration beyond Boundaries: What Can Glasgow teach us? Check out a report on the results from a collaborative dérive for the hybrid age that took place back in June at the @ukiedh.bsky.social 2025 event @uofglasgow.bsky.social: gewit-hring.com/journal/ukie...

Q...uite the Q! :-) cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-0...

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-... A edição original do Principia Mathematica. Com anotações de Newton.

Colour Shape Pattern, an exhibition full of bold lines, vivid hues, and tactile form, just opened. Bring your curiosity. Leave inspired: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern

✏️ Call for papers Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career Submit by 30 August 2025 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47272...

💥 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

Need a quick intro applying digital scholarship and data science in modern library work? 👀 Look no further! 👀 @libereurope.bsky.social's 'DS Topic Guides' have been launched today at #LIBER2025! libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...

Last Friday, we hosted the Knowledge Futures Symposium 📚 We heard from inspirational speakers who examined how knowledge is created, shared and exploited today, and were challenged to think and discuss our role in creating a more equitable and open knowledge future. #LKFS2025 #Library #LibSky