It's only a week until our in-conversation event with author Elisabeth Gifford, including a chance to explore Daphne du Maurier's archive! 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2025 🕕 6PM - 7:30PM 📍Seminar Room A/B, Old Library Book your FREE ticket! ⬇️ @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social

🎃 Nos Kalan Gwav Lowen dhyworth an govskrifva! / Happy Halloween from the archives! 🎃 We're sharing some of books relating to horror films from our Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection. Scary stuff! The Special Collections are open to browse, 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday. #Archive #EYAMonsters

Over the last few weeks we've been very busy with lots of teaching sessions, meeting students from history, illustration and theatre courses among others! This is some of the material we got out for BA Illustration students, showing a variety of creative approaches and responses.

👹 This October, we're featuring monsters for the Explore Your Archive theme, and the collections at Kresen Kernow are full of fascinating folklore and fearsome tales!

Marking #BlackHistoryMonth by highlighting our Black Screen History display curated by Chloé Jarrett-Bell, which focuses on the presence and integration of Black people in #screenhistory from 1900 to the present day. 🎧Listen to Chloe's podcast here: tinyurl.com/mv5ka6ax #filmsky #museumsky

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869. 📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN #WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

A flock of cranes has arrived in the #Archives! Our 'Japan in Print' display of books related to Japan is now up in the reading room, complete with origami decorations. Pop in and have a look! The #SpecialCollections are open to browse, Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, on Level 0 of the Exchange.

Welcome to new and returning student from all of us at Falmouth and Exeter University Archives & Special Collections! We thought we'd do a quick introduction of what we do and how you can use the collections. #WelcomeBack #FalmouthUni #UniversityOfExeter @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk

🎉Congratulations to the 2025 awardees of our Ronald Duncan Stipend for South West Writing! 🎉 Alex, Sama and Sam will be receiving a £2000 stipend to use our archive collections to inspire new writing. Find more about them & their projects at specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/exhibits/sho...

📢 FREE Heritage Open Day drop-in event! Come & explore architectural plans, Exeter Blitz letters, John Gendall sketches, rare books, & much more! 📆 Saturday 20 September 🕙 10:30am-1pm 🔗 www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e... #HeritageOpenDays #HOD #HODs2025 #HeritageOpenDaysExeter #Exeter

This week is the #GorsedhKernow Esedhvos festival in Marazion. / Yma'n #Esedhvos yn Marghasyow an seythen ma This book from our #GorsedhKernow Collection was written by Henry Jenner, a founder of the Gorsedh, to help people learn Cornish. It even has a chapter on Cornish swear words! #EYAEducation

Check out this amazing opportunity to join our Heritage Collections team! 👀 The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter is looking for a part-time Museum Assistant to join their friendly team. Please spread the word! ⬇️

We are delighted to announce a new temporary exhibition to mark the 70th anniversary of the University of Exeter! This exhibition features the Royal Charter, awarded in 1955. The exhibition is open for everyone to visit on Level 0 of the Forum Library on @exeter.ac.uk's Streatham Campus.

It would be wrong to let #EYAComedy month pass by and not mention #CharlieChaplin. 📷: Books from the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection #Comedy #Chaplin #Archives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social

Today we're dreaming of a holiday in Cornwall with this hand-painted map from 1576! The map from our beautiful atlas was based on a survey undertaken by the cartographer Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #MapMonday #MondayMaps #Cornwall

Keeping up the #CharlesWoolfCollection word association and linking in to #EYAHumour month, here's a photo of the beach at Porth Joke, near Newquay in 1967. We expect it probably isn't quite as empty as this today! 🏖️ 📷: ICS12/10451, Beach, Porth Joke #Joke #Archives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Today is #InternationalWolfDay so what better time to showcase the #CharlesWoolfCollection! This image is of a troop of Wolf Cub scouts in a parade in Newquay in 1957. Although it's not an actual wolf, we think this qualifies 😉 📷: ICS12/2648, Wolf Cubs Parade #WolfDay #Newquay #Archives

This is Rupert, the favourite cat of the Cornish poet, Charles Causley. Rupert can be found in many photographs within the archive, showing how beloved he was by Causley! 📷 EUL MS 50a/PHOT/2/2/6 #InternationalCatDay #CatDay #CharlesCausley #Archives

Today we've been looking at handwritten compositions in the #ElmhirstCollection that were gifted to Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst by a composition class in 1944. They are by several students and written for a variety of instruments. Now we just need a string trio to play this piece! 📷: M780 THI

Our Myth, Folk and Fairytales resource list is now live! Items about folklore, myths and legends throughout all of our collections are now easily findable in one place. 📷: ICS12/12774, #CharlesWoolfArchive, Performance of Ordinalia by Bristol University Drama Group #Myth #Folk #Fairytale #Archives

I recently saw a show of rehearsed readings of material from Nick Darke’s archive collection. The performance was fascinating and left me thinking about archives & the creative process - and wondering how much of my own workings-out I would want to keep in the long run, and to share with others.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the porcupines! To celebrate World Porcupine Day, here is an illustration of a porcupine from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldPorcupineDay #PorcupineDay #RareBooks

#SeythenKewselKernewek yw an seythen ma! / This week is #SpeakCornishWeek! Yma lies lyvrow a-dro dhe Gernewek y'gan Kuntel Arbennik #GorsedhKernow. / There are many books about Cornish in our Gorsedh Kernow Special Collection. Vysytyewgh ni rag dyski moy! / Visit us to find out more! #Kernewek

Refugees' stories often feature within our Middle East collections. The documents in this image are from the Richmond papers and concern charitable work in the early 1970s by the Quakers and UNIPAL (Universities' Educational Fund for Palestinian Refugees). 📷 EUL MS 115 #WorldRefugeeDay #Archives

Today is International Tennis Day! 🎾 This photograph from our University Archive shows students ready for a tennis match! It was taken in the grounds of Reed Hall in 1929. 📷 EUL UA/P/3i #InternationalTennisDay #TennisDay #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives

Our new exhibition is up in the Penryn Campus Library! 'Nick Darke: Life, Work, Legacy' commemorates Cornwall's best-known playwright 20 years on from his death. #NickDarke #NickDarkeArchive #FalmouthUniversity

📕'Voyage en Italie' is an 1866 travelogue by French historian and philosopher Hippolyte Taine who visited #Italy in 1864. Our copy was awarded to a student at Christ's Hospital, London "for progress in French" in 1897; it's now part of the #ChrisBrooksCollection of Victorian Culture. #EYATravel

📢 One work experience placement available 07-11 July! Due to a cancellation, we now have ONE available space for a Year 10 or Year 12 (Devon/Cornwall) student to undertake a week of work experience in Special Collections from 07-11 July. We would love to hear from students directly. More info ⬇️

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the otters, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Otter Day, here is an engraving of an otter from the book 'The Illustrated Natural History' (1863) by J. G. Wood. 📷🦦 Reserve 590.2/WOO #WorldOtterDay #OtterDay #Otters #RareBooks

It's the last day of our exhibition! 'Beyond the Gaze: Portraits by Ian Stern' showcases the work of Ian Stern, a photographer and filmmaker who died at a young age in 1978. We've really enjoyed highlighting his portraiture and creative process. Make sure to see it before it comes down tomorrow!

👋Hello Bluesky! 📜We recently welcomed a visit from #FalmouthArtGallery ahead of an upcoming exhibition on paper artefacts. We put out such a range of different material that we thought it would be a waste not to share it! 🧵1/7

Applications for the Ronald Duncan Stipends close on 15 June! The stipends help fund three opportunities to explore University of Exeter archives (including those held here in Penryn!) and create exciting new writing. Apply via the UoE website: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/Dun...

Our collections are available to students and staff of Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, as well as to the public! You can book an appointment to visit us at the link below⬇️ library.fxplus.ac.uk/archive-appo...