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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 😍
✈️ 📷 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 😍
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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 😍
✈️ 📷 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 😍
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❄️ ’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
@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
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
❄️ ’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
@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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December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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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
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
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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
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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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...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a...
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 …
thonyc.wordpress.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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...
www.theheritagelab.in/digital-rasa...
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.
www.theheritagelab.in
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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...
www.theheritagelab.in/digital-rasa...
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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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December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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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
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
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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
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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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/...
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.history.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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 now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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 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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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
#DigitalHistory
Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Melissa Terras on why cooperatives are the future of AI
Discover why Melissa Terras believes cooperatives like READ-COOP represent the future of AI, fostering community-driven, sustainable technological innovation.
blog.transkribus.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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
#DigitalHistory
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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...
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...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
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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
Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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
Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science
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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
➡️ campus.dariah.eu/resources/ex...
#DataStewardship #Digitatisation #Workflow
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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
➡️ 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...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
Landscape Histories from the Air : Hill fort, East Lulworth, Dorset
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
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One cat per mouse
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One cat per mouse
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
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...
Chirantan Banik delves deeper:
www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...
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.
www.theheritagelab.in
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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...
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...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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...
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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
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...
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👏 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
Dive into the Kew Data Portal now to explore our collections! 🌱
data.kew.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
👏 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
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...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
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...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
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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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
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
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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
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