For the last #HillfortsWednesday of 2025, here's the trivallate Iron Age marvel of Badbury Rings #Dorset ✈️ 📷 summer 1947 @camdiglib.bsky.social (CC BY-NC 3.0) with uncontrolled access causing major erosion Now better managed by the @nattrustarch.bsky.social, Badbury is a great place to explore 😍

❄️ ’Tis the season for exploring the web’s past! @InternetArchive.EU has transformed millions of Dutch websites from the #WaybackMachine into a festive, interactive Christmas mosaic. 🎄 It offers a new way to see the web & the scale & value of digital collections. Try it ➡️ display.archive.org/xmas

Is it Christmas yet? #medievalsky #medievaladvent @camdiglib.bsky.social Dd.5., f. 207r

Jane Austen loved a ramble! 250 years since her birth, we’re celebrating the paths and landscapes that inspired her life and writing. Explore the new Jane Austen trails ➡️ www.ramblers.org.uk/features/footsteps-jane-austen

18th-century, French, Newtonian physicist, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet who was born on 17 December 1706 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a...

If you're after a Friday read? Why not join us on a virtual adventure to explore a different way of thinking about how we interact and engage with digitised cultural heritage: www.theheritagelab.in/digital-rasa...

Last day of Fantastic Futures 2025: AI Everywhere, All at Once begins! What an absolutely inspired community this is 🤩! Register for free access to today's livestream www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... and join in a full schedule of incredible talks. www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #ai4lam #ff2025

Applications now open 🎓 Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses Apply by 19 Jan 2026 bit.ly/3tw6OuI

Looking for new learning experiences, enrichment and inspiration? Try our new IHR Discovery Courses : Historic Maps, Townscape and Architecture, and Archaeology for Local History. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!! This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

This is a very interesting interview with @melissaterras.bsky.social on @transkribus.bsky.social 's co-operative model, and how to balance financial imperatives with academic imperatives. #DigitalHistory

Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.

The Khami Atlas of the World, drawn and painted ENTIRELY BY HAND in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents. Now THAT'S #MapMonday! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...

The Khami Atlas of the World, drawn and painted ENTIRELY BY HAND in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents. Now THAT'S #MapMonday! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...

Profoundly beautiful account of the history of snow studies, the fragility of snow and the impact of the anthropocene by Sverker Sörlin. Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science

How do we display data as we want, but still store it as we should? This podcast, produced by Vera Chiquet and virtualculture.ch, offers the data steward’s perspective on digitisation for #TrainingTuesday 🎧 ➡️ campus.dariah.eu/resources/ex... #DataStewardship #Digitatisation #Workflow

When you're in Cambridgeshire and have a distinct lack of hillforts and beautiful coastline... This 1948 shot of Flower's Barrow near Lulworth Cove ticks boxes! #hillfortswednesday cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...

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