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Dr Jill Whitelock
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Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Jun 13
Martagon lily #scape, @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. 📷 #photography
Side view of lots of pink Martagon lily flowers against a blurred green background.
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Leafhopper on a late flowering Ena Harkness rose. #MacroMonday 📷 #photography
A tiny green Leafhopper on a red Rose petal.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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A pretty Sweet violet flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour
Sunlight shining through the petals of a purple Sweet violet, flowering in grass.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Autumn yellows. Hedge mustard, Ragwort with female Sphaerophoria hoverfly and Lady’s bedstraw. #WildflowerHour
Yellow flowers of Hedge mustard, Ragwort (with female Sphaerophoria hoverfly) and Lady’s bedstraw.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Forget-me-not in flower at Ely Leisure Village. #WildflowerHour
A pale blue Forget-me-not flower with a yellow centre, against a blurred green background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Bristly oxtongue in Ely. #WildflowerHour
A yellow Bristly oxtongue flower in grass, amongst other (blurred) yellow flowers.
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Small-flowered cranesbill in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
A small mauvish pink flower against a bright green background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Blue fleabane still flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour
A Blue fleabane flower against a blurred yellow, green and brown background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Shepherd’s purse. #WildflowerHour
Small white flowers of Shepherd’s purse against a blurred grey-brown background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Ragwort in Ely. #WildflowerHour
A bright yellow Ragwort flower against a blurred green background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A little bit of Winter heliotrope now in flower in Ely. #WildflowerHour
A few white and pink flowers of Winter heliotrope opening, against a dark green background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A surprisingly summery #TheWinter10, most of these from a grassy area at Ely Leisure Village (presumably from a seed mix). Black medick, Knapweed, Wild carrot, Dandelion, Daisies, Red and White campion, Mayweed, Borage, Black horehound and Lady’s bedstraw. #WildflowerHour
Montage showing Black medick, Knapweed, Wild carrot, Dandelion, Daisies, Red and White campion, Mayweed, Borage, Black horehound and Lady’s bedstraw.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🌿 This Week 🌿
We were thrilled to welcome @plantlifeuk.bsky.social and @channel4news.bsky.social to celebrate the Fen Orchid - brought back from the brink of extinction!
See our latest Plant Picks and don’t miss #CambridgeBotanicLights: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025/
A small yellow orchid with green leaves. A flower with white petals and purple spots, with green foliage in the background. A close-up image of a plant in bloom, featuring a strikingly dark purple and blue flower against a backdrop of lush green leaves. A vibrant display of purple flowers growing from a fleshy, green-leafed plant in a terracotta pot, situated in a greenhouse environment.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#Evening light, Arran.
#BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
Golden light over a path through grass to the sea. The sky is pale blue with a band of fluffy white clouds.
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
Montage showing items from Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections, set out for a class.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Clematis flowering by a door at Miss Minnie Pate’s Cambridge University Type-Writing Office, 33 Trinity Street, Cambridge.

‘Yard, until 1923’ (detail), from Minnie Pate’s Scrapbook. MS Add. 7637 @theul.bsky.social
Black snd white photograph of a Clematis in flower on a wall next to a door.
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Eumerus litoralis (= Eumerus sabulonum) hoverfly, from John Curtis’s ‘British entomology’, vol. 16 (London, 1839). Lib.4.82.24 @theul.bsky.social #FlyDay #Diptera #hoverflies #EntHist
Colour illustration of a Hoverfly.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Stained glass shadows, St Mary’s Church, Wreay.
#WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
Coloured light and shadows from a stained glass window.
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Dr Jill Whitelock
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Thursday 2 November 1620, 9:38 AM, and Napier is having child-wrangling problems: 'my boyes would not goe to schoole'. #earlymodern
Manuscript image of the quoted text (NOTE7139 on the Casebooks site).
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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West Cambridge corvid.
#UrbanGaze 📷 #photography
A corvid looking out from the rooftop of a tall building in shades of white, grey and black.
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Female Syrphus ribesii hoverfly on Ivy in Ely at the weekend. #WildWebsWednesday
Yellow and black banded Hoverfly resting on an Ivy leaf.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
Detail of a pressed specimen of Scarlet pimpernel on a page of printed text.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Sphaerophoria hoverfly on Ragwort in Ely yesterday. #WildWebsWednesday
Side view of a Sphaerophoria hoverfly on a yellow Ragwort flower, against a blurred green background.
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).

CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
Two circular handwritten labels tucked inside a book, with the captions ‘Unguentum Lapidis Calaminaris’ and ‘Tinctura Valeriana Ammoniata’.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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North Wing shadows, @theul.bsky.social.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
Light and shadows on green carpet in a library aisle by windows.
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Male and female Scorpionflies. From James Barbut’s ‘The genera insectorum of Linnæus …’ (London, 1781). S391.b.78.13 @theul.bsky.social #EntHist #Diptera
Hand-coloured printed illustration of a male and female Scorpionfly.
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM