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trincolllibcam.bsky.social Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Aug 28
What better use for the back of a letter than to test out some new colours?

These bright swatches were found in the correspondence of antiquary and botanist Dawson Turner (1775–1858).

A little bit of colour living in a world of paper and ink.🎨
Image of the back of a letter in the collection of Dawson Turner correspondence. A paragraph of neat handwriting in black ink tops and tails the page, with swipes of pastel in various blues, yellows, browns and pinks filling the middle.
August 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Anyone else have that bank holiday Friday feeling?

Time to kick back, relax and... play the flute?🎵

(Trinity College MS B.11.22)
Image of a manuscript from the 14th century featuring an illustration of a man playing the flute. He is quite the character. He is posed rather awkwardly and wears bright orange socks!
August 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Writing this post was an honour. Lise Meitner was truly an icon!
trincolllibcam.bsky.social Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Aug 1
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist whose pioneering work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Find out all about her story in our latest blog post!

trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/s...
August 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Another day, another ancient artefact...
A hand holds up a floppy disk with a sticker of the Polaroid logo and label saying 'Wavelet analysis'.
July 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Happy #marginaliamonday! This medieval man has been chasing away a moth for over 700 years...

Clearly some things never change!🦋

(Trinity College MS B.11.22)
Zoomed-in image of a richly decorated medieval manuscript, featuring a tunic-dressed man waving an orange cloth in the direction of a large white moth.
July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Icons understand icons!!!!
trincolllibcam.bsky.social Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Jul 17
Did you know that Florence Nightingale had a soft spot for the Brontë sisters' poems?

In this letter to Richard Monckton Milnes, she asks to borrow his copy of 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘳, 𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭.

Anne’s poem “The Captive Dove” especially moved her.

(Houghton 18/136)
Page one of a letter from Florence Nightingale to Richard Monckton Milnes. Page two of a letter from Florence Nightingale to Richard Monckton Milnes. A typed transcription of the letter reading: 'Dear Mr. Milnes, I thank you very much for your remembrance of me in the beautiful grapes & peaches. You lent us once at Embley, fifty years ago, Currer Bell's Poems. There was one, called, I think, the Captive, which struck me very much. I have since tried to get the book. But it is out of print. Could you lend me the book, if you have it still & by you? Yours affectionately, F. Nightingale.
July 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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These beautiful pressed seaweeds are the work of 19th-century botanist Amelia Griffiths. Sent to Dawson Turner, writer of 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘪, around 1808, this volume is currently on display as part of our exhibition 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦’𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴.
Letter from Amelia Griffiths containing four specimens of seaweed pressed and pasted onto a sheet in a variety of shades of pink and maroon. Her scrawl contains descriptions of locations an characteristics of her findings. Second leaf of a letter from Amelia Griffiths containing 3 sections of a seaweed specimen pressed and pasted onto a sheet alongside her writing.
July 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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We had an unexpected visitor at the library yesterday!🐦
Some of our librarians turned into temporary bird rescuers when this little fellow got stuck in the roof.

With some teamwork, Otto (as we named him) was rescued, had a little rest, then flew off into the gardens once again.
A picture taken from a distance of a small bird stuck on top of the decorative roofing in the Wren Library entrance hall. A close up picture of a bird with black and green feathers resting in the grass.
July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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You better not shout
You better not cry
This is a library
December 14, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Ever wondered what it's like to work in a Cambridge college library? Look no further than our Graduate Trainee Librarian's fantastic day-in-the-life blog!

🔎 Read it here: www.catalog.group.cam.ac.uk/2024/11/day-...
Day in the Life of a Trinity Trainee - CaTaLOG
Cambridge Trainee Librarians' Online Group (CaTaLOG) - Information on careers in librarianship, the CILIP graduate trainee scheme, and life as a library graduate trainee in Cambridge.
www.catalog.group.cam.ac.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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I absolutely loved writing and researching this blog :) (also happy international day of people with disabilities!)
trincolllibcam.bsky.social Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Dec 2
Famed for his moody writing and rebellious nature, it is perhaps less well known that Trinity alum, Lord Byron, was also disabled.
Our blog post for #DisabilityHistoryMonth explores the impact of Byron's disability on his life and work: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/category/tri...
Lord Byron depicted as the Devil with a cloven foot, in the 1819 political satire, 'The Dorchester guide, or, A house that Jack built' (Sraffa 2570).
December 4, 2024 at 8:39 AM