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Durotriges Dig
3 days ago
For the last
#HillfortsWednesday
of 2025, here's the trivallate Iron Age marvel of Badbury Rings
#Dorset
✈️ 📷 summer 1947
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(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 😍
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Internet Archive
11 days ago
❄️ ’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
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Ulrike Graßnick
16 days ago
Is it Christmas yet?
#medievalsky
#medievaladvent
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Dd.5., f. 207r
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The Ramblers
17 days ago
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
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Thony Christie
17 days ago
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...
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A feminist Newtonian
Any major new scientific theory experiences a period of reception after publication in which it is examined, questioned, subject to criticism and put to the test. During this period, which can and …
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a-feminist-newtonian/
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Roger Mansuy
20 days ago
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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...
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Digital Rasa: Can Ancient Indian Aesthetic Theory Guide Our Engagement with Manuscripts and Photographs online?
This essay reflects on the concept of rasa (ancient Indian aesthetic theory) & rethinks our digital engagement with manuscripts & photos in collections.
https://www.theheritagelab.in/digital-rasa-ancient-indian-aesthetic-theory/
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library
29 days ago
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
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Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with…
https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2025-12-04
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CRASSH
about 1 month ago
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
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Institute of Historical Research
about 1 month ago
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/...
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Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/historic-maps-interpreting-stories-place
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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/...
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British History Online
about 1 month ago
This is a very interesting interview with
@melissaterras.bsky.social
on
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's co-operative model, and how to balance financial imperatives with academic imperatives.
#DigitalHistory
add a skeleton here at some point
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Duncan Mackay
about 1 month ago
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.
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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...
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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
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cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
about 1 month ago
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Christopher Smith
about 1 month ago
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
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DARIAH-EU
about 2 months ago
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
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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
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Landscape Histories from the Air : Hill fort, East Lulworth, Dorset
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOGRAPHY-KC-00005/1
about 2 months ago
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Ennius
about 2 months ago
One cat per mouse Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v
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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...
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Untold Stories behind the making of Samuel Bourne’s ‘Picturesque’ Photographs of the Himalayas : a colonial narrative of the mountains.
This essay explores the erasures of local labour, knowledge and histories in Bourne’s photographs of India, with a focus on the Himalayas.
https://www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourne-picturesque-photographs-himalayas/
about 2 months ago
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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...
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about 2 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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Kew Gardens
2 months ago
👏 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
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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...
) 😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
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Durotriges Dig
2 months ago
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
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Cambridge Digital Humanities
2 months ago
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...
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Annie Bannany
3 months ago
Female drummers and playing harp to a real King who is sick. The Bahun psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum.
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Medieval Medical Recipes : Psalter ('Bohun Psalter', previously known as the 'Riches Psalter' and the 'Psalter of John of Gaunt')
The Bohun psalter at the Fitzwilliam Museum belongs to a unique group of ten manuscripts produced in England during the second
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZWILLIAM-00038-01950/73
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Her Maths Story
3 months ago
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/
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Carin Ruff
3 months ago
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!
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Lisa Fagin Davis
3 months ago
@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...
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Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation
India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/bridging-archives-the-role-of-iiif-in-global-manuscript-preservation/
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Jane Winters
3 months ago
BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum
This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.
https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/braid-responsible-ai-cultural-heritage-forum
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
3 months ago
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
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@crossref.bsky.social
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Jane Winters
3 months ago
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!
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When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-saving-becomes-loss-archival-memory-in-the-digital-age-tickets-1754128418319
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The Museum of English Rural Life
3 months ago
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.
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...And you thought you were stretched too thin! 😬
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Carin Ruff
3 months ago
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...
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Tyler Shores
3 months ago
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...
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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).
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Decoding the Desert : J. M. Reynolds personal photographs from childhood and adulthood
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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).
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Decoding the Desert : J. M. Reynolds personal photographs from childhood and adulthood
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RCP museum
3 months ago
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/...
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Ennius
3 months ago
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
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Movies Silently
4 months ago
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!
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Treasures of the Library : Nuremberg Chronicle
The Liber Chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493, or Nuremberg Chronicle as it is
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-00000-A-00007-00002-00888/48
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RLUK Research Libraries UK
4 months ago
🟠
#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
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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...
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Seeing Red: A Visual Reading of Sanskrit Manuscripts
In this visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at Cambridge University Library, explore how the colour red offers meaning beyond language.
https://www.theheritagelab.in/visual-reading-colour-red.../
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Durotriges Dig
4 months ago
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
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The Parker Library
4 months ago
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...
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XR Stories
4 months ago
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
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XR Network+: Simulation and XR
Learn about two R&D projects using Virtual Production technologies to advance the capabilities of digital simulations.
https://hubs.li/Q03CwKvP0
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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...
4 months ago
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Rebekah Higgitt
5 months ago
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."
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