We ❤️ Bees! Here's a few of our favourite Bee-things for #WorldBeeDay! There's medieval bees, a model honeycomb, Darwin's kids help-out with an experiment, and poor Oliver Rackham gets stung! 🐝 🧵 1/7...

We're pleased to announce a new RLUK project exploring the role of special & heritage collections in civic engagement & how collections can contribute more actively to institutional priorities, public value, & community engagement, led by @ckamposiori.bsky.social 📑 www.rluk.ac.uk/RLCE

So valuable to hear Samba Yonga's talk complexities of sacred objects in colonial collections! Imagine if we thought this deeply about all collection items? Check out her article: www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en/news/why-... The Women’s History Museum of Zambia: www.whmzambia.org #DigiStoryFest

Great to see a solution as simple as pepper's ghost being used for innovative digital story telling! ...And what a great idea to incorporate through the idea of a postcard! #DigiStoryFest 5dculture.eu/scenario/cit...

Tuning in to @europeana.bsky.social's Digital Storytelling Festival - Looking forward to hearing from some great speakers and thinking about the impact of technology on story telling! 'Inspiring' start from @paulinemackay.bsky.social, seeking inspiration from Robert Burns! #DigiStoryFest

💎Join us for Afterlives of Fragments, an event exploring making and unmaking across anthropology, archaeology, art & architecture We will engage with fragments not just as objects but as ways of thinking, sensing, and collaborating 16 May 1.30-5.30pm Online & CRASSH CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4dd2O7I

Coming up this afternoon!

Can digital collections make research more inclusive and equitable? Join us to discuss as part of an @rluk.ac.uk research shift webinar on Tues 12 May, 2-3pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rluk-rsp-m... #ResearchShift #Inclusive #Libraries

A time-capsule of biodiversity! This recently digitised Hanmer Herbarium contains almost three hundred specimens of pressed plants, collected by barrister and naturalist Edward Hanmer (1758–1821). cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

📣 Our April newsletter is now out - featuring our second user needs survey to help develop the Heritage Science Data Service as well as news from our members, funding, events and jobs. Read it here:

One of our absolute favourites! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LL-0...

See The Guidonian Hand, the Medieval System for Reading Music, Get Brought Back to Life

Last week, we co-hosted the annual 'History and Archives in Practice' conference, with partners @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives and @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social. This year's theme was ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives'. More about #HAP26 and the projects showcased here: bit.ly/48j0Dhj

Fen to Fire brings to life the Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement, showing activity from construction to destruction. Each run-through is different with varied activities, events, weather and camera angles while the seasons change over time. The cause of the site’s fiery demise can also vary.

Two fiery dragon form the initial 'M'(oriente) which tells of events 'upon the death of King Agrippa'. Trinity Hall Cambridge Library, MS 4; Flavius Josephus, Historiae Antiquitatis Judaice; 12th century; Herefordshire, England; f.207v @camdiglib.bsky.social

The hidden histories of cities 🏙️ Heritage underpins our lives in so many ways, often unseen. But these hidden entanglements with the past can be revealed in historical maps. For today’s #MappingMonday we look at Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in 1908.

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

If only all catalogue entries were this beautiful?! The catalogues of Pitt-Rivers’ archaeological and anthropological collections, 1891-1896 - Nine volumes of stunningly detailed miniature paintings of each object, like this Japanese silver and enamel plate: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

A slightly misleading depiction of the Battle of Stamford Bridge... www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... The Battle of Hastings is four pages later on... cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0...

Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫 Have you got an idea that may: - Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures? - Forge new collaborations ? - Bring academic research to wider publics? - Explore research and artistic practice? Apply by 17 May 2026 https://bit.ly/3CaV97M

Working on TheNatureRecord.org means living inside data about US nature. But numbers carry only part of the story. In partnership with BowSeat.org, we’re excited to announce youth art winners whose work captures what data leave out—wonder, grief & belonging open.substack.com/pub/naturere...

Join us next week for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

A major new Open Research report is out: MORPHSS. It identifies 30 AHSS‑specific open practices and shows how they enhance rigour, transparency and community‑grounded research. Read more here www.ukrn.org/2026/03/11/l...

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

Q: How do you like your crumpets? A: Golden ... with a touch of shimmer, matured for nearly 700 years, and served in the margins. From the ever stunning Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...

What do you do with eight cases of Baskerville font punches?! Have lots of digital letter fun of course! There's even RTI and 3D Models to play with ... cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Shoutout to my amazing colleagues at Cambridge & Birmingham on the 'Small Performances' project into John Baskerville's typographic punches - today is released a @camdiglib.bsky.social collection of imagery of the punches. Check it out! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

Looking for simple ways to support Wikipedia and open knowledge? Here are 5 impactful actions you can take today: from improving an article to organising your own edit-a-thon. #openknowledge #support #WikimediaUK #Wikipedia #editing

BEITH, BEITHE ~ a birch tree 11.. Book of Deer 4r 8 Gonice in béiťh. One of our earliest citations, from the Book of Deer written perhaps around 1150: ‘as far as the birch tree’. See more modern variations here: faclair.ac.uk/entries/1 #SeachdainNaGaidhlig #cleachdinocailli #gaidhlig #faclair

“Insects come forth from their hiding places.” Revett Sheppard in his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, on this day in Cambridge, 23 February 1799. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... @theul.bsky.social A Ladybird doing the same thing in the garden yesterday.

Apes, dragons and medieval figures adorn the 1505 illustrated copy of the statutes of #ChristsCollegeCambridge. Look out for the signature of College Founder, #LadyMargaretBeaufort on the opening page cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI... 📷 @camdiglib.bsky.social

'The two women turned what was little more than a collection of old sheds into a purpose-built, stylish studio and shop...' @akennedysmith.bsky.social on the creative & entrepreneurial collaboration between friends & photographers Lettice Ramsey & Helen Muspratt.

In the days before drones, Charles Darwin used his kids! The result isn't so pretty though! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-...

One decoration in our office to celebrate the #YearOfTheHorse is a calligraphy piece in oracle bone script reading 物華天寶，人壽年豐 — “Nature yields its finest treasures, and the people enjoy long lives and abundant years.”This is an auspicious blessing for the New Year.

Happy Lunar New Year! We're welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse with highlights from our collections 🔥🐎 Kalāpustaka, 17th century Nepalese accordion book (MS Add. 864) loom.ly/3Wjvk_Q

There's so many maps that we're still exploring the delights of India for #MapMonday! www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore...

"The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out", late 17th century, CUL MS Add. 8460 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... via vamoul.substack.com/p/with-hope-...

India + Maps = What's not to love! ❤️ This new portal from @mahsa-project.bsky.social you can now search and use hundreds of detailed maps of India, and find data for over 1000! www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore...

This digitised repository marks a major step towards the democratisation of cultural heritage and cartographic archives in the region. 🔗 Learn how to use the database: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore... 🔗 Start your search today: databasemahsa.org/en/search (3/3)

A recent addition to Cambridge Digital Library, the 'Survey of India Maps' (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...) are part of a wider project that has created an amazing open-access search portal for historic survey maps of India! You can read more about the project and platform below: ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Did you know, its not all words and letters in Charles Darwin's Archive! Here's a few of our favourite things for #DarwinDay! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/... (1/10)

It's #DarwinDay! We've oodles of things to explore all things Darwin: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/... But a great place to start, with all sorts of exciting extras, is the Darwin Correspondence Project: darwinproject.ac.uk Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! Looking good for 217!

Did you know Charles Darwin was born #OnThisDay in 1809? #DarwinDay celebrates not just Darwin, but the gardeners, naturalists and women scientists who shaped his work. Explore their stories: https://bit.ly/45YkKQD @christscollegecam.bsky.social#OnThisDay

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

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

That's me in the corner... ... looking stunning! Just a casually pretty peacock hanging out in the corner a medieval book on astronomy! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...

2025 was a busy year with a lot to still be excited about - Check out all the great stories in @theul.bsky.social's Annual Review!

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...

Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social Professor Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians