We are delighted to announce a new exhibition by student volunteer Katie Gray on the subject of 'The Exeter Wartime Experience'. This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level +1 of the Forum Library on the University of Exeter's Streatham Campus! #Archives #Exhibitions #Exeter

Have you had a chance to visit our ‘Cornwall in Print’ exhibition yet? We love the poster wall upstairs in the Treasures Gallery, which showcases a selection of work by Cornish printers, the letter types they used and the variety of styles chosen by the printers. #letterpress #printinghistory

Applying for the Ronald Duncan Stipends for Southwest writing? ✍️ Why not book an online surgery with an archivist! A great opportunity to ask questions & discuss archives that could inspire your work. More info, book a surgery & apply ⬇️ @exetercityoflit.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

The Ronald Duncan Stipend is open for applications! Writers with a strong connection to the South West could get a £2,000 stipend towards using University of Exeter collections (in Penryn or Exeter) to inspire new creative work. Deadline is 21st June!

New accessions alert! 🚨 Ahead of our closure, we've been working on our accessions backlog - one of the first steps towards material being catalogued. Today we've been listing theatre papers from Dartington College of Arts, which merged with Falmouth University in 2008. Here are some gems so far!

The Archives and Special Collections will be closed from May to September due to essential works taking place in the Exchange building. We will be responding to email enquiries as usual, but we will be unable to provide reader appointments. We look forward to seeing you again in September!

📢 Great news for South West writers... Applications are now open for our 2026 Ronald Duncan Stipends! 🎉 If exploring archives sparks ideas for your writing, this might be the opportunity for you 📖 ✍️ For more info and to apply, please visit our LibGuide ⬇️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Archives

Our next #CollectionsInFocus blog post is up! In it we uncover some gems from the Papers of Royston Green, a teacher and committed supporter of Celtic nationalism and communism. These items are part of Green's Cornish language teaching materials and include illustrations, like these labelled hands.

Interested in theatre history in Exeter and Devon? 🎭 Then check out our online guide and explore our Drama, Music and Theatre History resources! ⬇️ Our collections are available to everyone, for research or enjoyment. #WorldTheatreDay #TheatreHistory #TheatreArchives @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social

Jack Clemo, a Cornish poet & writer, was born on 11 March 1916. Clemo's archive provides fascinating insight into the creation of his literary works, as well as his personal relationships & his experiences of losing his sight & his hearing. 📷 EUL MS 68 #OnThisDay #OTD #LiteraryArchives #Cornwall

It’s finally here! We’re very excited to announce that our Women of the Gorsedh exhibition is now open at Penryn Campus Library. 🎉 Celebrating women who have made important contributions to Cornish culture and heritage, the exhibition will be up throughout March. Make sure to come and see it!

Have you seen the new display in our case yet? Our #GorsedhKernow Special Collection covers topics from ancient crosses to Shakespeare to the #Cornish language. Come and see some highlights on level 0 of the Exchange Building - and remember, our Women of the Gorsedh exhibition opens next week too!

February is LGBT+ History Month! 🌈 You can find out more about our LGBTQ+ research resources in this online guide ⬇️ Our collections are available to everyone - for research, interest or enjoyment! #LGBTplusHM #LGBTQIA #Archives #RareBooks

From Idea to Institution ✨ In 1833, Anna Maria Fox sparked the creation of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society, believing ingenuity and practical knowledge could strengthen communities. With support from her family, the idea grew into a pioneering organisation. #RoyalCornwallPolytechnicsociety

What are these crowds waiting for? The next Archives exhibition perhaps! Our next exhibition looks at women in Gorsedh Kernow, Cornwall's society of bards. It will be running throughout March for #WomensHistoryMonth and #StPiransDay. Keep an eye out for more to come! 👀 📷: ICS12/11924

Today is National Handwriting Day! ✍️ Reading handwritten records can be a challenging or enjoyable aspect (often both!) of archival research. Our Syon Abbey Collection contains six centuries of handwriting! #NationalHandwritingDay #HandwritingDay #Handwriting #Archives #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic

Our display on the Anatomy of Books is now up! We're celebrating the varied and interesting examples of book design that we have in our #SpecialCollections There are so many behind-the-scenes decisions that make the books we read everyday. Design, layout and even typeface all get carefully chosen 📖

#NadelikLowen ha #BledhenNowydhDa! An Kovskrifennow ha Kuntellow Arbennik yw lemmyn degys rag an powes gwav hag ni a wra dasygeri 5es mis Genver. #MerryChristmas and #HappyNewYear! The Archives and Special Collections are now closed for the winter break and will reopen on 5 January.

The first of our #CollectionsInFocus blog posts from our recently catalogued politics archives is now live! This 1970s anarchist flyer of Tweedledum and Tweedledee (ICS6/D/1/8) was chosen as a highlight. #CornishPolitics #InstituteOfCornishStudies @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Our internship exploring maritime and coastal communities is live on Handshake now! If you're a Falmouth student interested in using archives in your creative practice, we'd love you to apply! Read the full brief and submit your application on Handshake - deadline is 5 January 2026.

We're very proud to be featured in this year's #AYearInArchives among such illustrious company! This year, we celebrated the life, work and legacy of Nick Darke, supporting students to respond to his archive in new and exciting ways. Find out more here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Today we've been using these pretty comprehensive guides to the stone crosses of Cornwall from our special collections! Written by historian and bard Andrew Langdon, these books are in our Gorsedh Kernow collection, providing valuable insight into the history of religion in Cornwall. #EYAReligion

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 ⬇️