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💫Happy New Year!💫
Cambridge University Library reopens tomorrow, Friday 2 January at 9am.
Cambridge University Library reopens tomorrow, Friday 2 January at 9am.
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 AM
💫Happy New Year!💫
Cambridge University Library reopens tomorrow, Friday 2 January at 9am.
Cambridge University Library reopens tomorrow, Friday 2 January at 9am.
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A key figure in the re-founding of @theul.bsky.social in 1574 - and another copy of this portrait on display in the library Syndicate Room.
December 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A key figure in the re-founding of @theul.bsky.social in 1574 - and another copy of this portrait on display in the library Syndicate Room.
🥳Never mind main character energy, we need some medieval party hat energy 💃
✨Merry Christmas from Cambridge University Library!
👋We'll see you when we reopen at 9am on 2 January 2026.
Medieval party hat images are all from the Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol (MS Dd.5.5).
✨Merry Christmas from Cambridge University Library!
👋We'll see you when we reopen at 9am on 2 January 2026.
Medieval party hat images are all from the Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol (MS Dd.5.5).
December 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🥳Never mind main character energy, we need some medieval party hat energy 💃
✨Merry Christmas from Cambridge University Library!
👋We'll see you when we reopen at 9am on 2 January 2026.
Medieval party hat images are all from the Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol (MS Dd.5.5).
✨Merry Christmas from Cambridge University Library!
👋We'll see you when we reopen at 9am on 2 January 2026.
Medieval party hat images are all from the Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol (MS Dd.5.5).
A sixteenth century image of the Virgin and Child (MS Nn.4.1).
You can see this beautiful manuscript in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/yVzgtgA.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
You can see this beautiful manuscript in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/yVzgtgA.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A sixteenth century image of the Virgin and Child (MS Nn.4.1).
You can see this beautiful manuscript in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/yVzgtgA.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
You can see this beautiful manuscript in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/yVzgtgA.
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers: 2026 at Cambridge University Library is set to be an exciting year! 🛶🐟📚
Get ready for our major new exhibition, the return of The Really Popular Book Club, and much more besides.
🔎 Find out more: https://loom.ly/pxFfHO0
Get ready for our major new exhibition, the return of The Really Popular Book Club, and much more besides.
🔎 Find out more: https://loom.ly/pxFfHO0
2026 at Cambridge University Library - featuring Living Water!
Get ready for our major new exhibition on medieval medicine, the return of The Really Popular Book Club, and much more besides in 2025.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers: 2026 at Cambridge University Library is set to be an exciting year! 🛶🐟📚
Get ready for our major new exhibition, the return of The Really Popular Book Club, and much more besides.
🔎 Find out more: https://loom.ly/pxFfHO0
Get ready for our major new exhibition, the return of The Really Popular Book Club, and much more besides.
🔎 Find out more: https://loom.ly/pxFfHO0
Need some festive cheer? Father Christmas' ABC, published in 1894, is chock-full of delights.
1. The cover artwork, as charming now as the day it was published
2. Decorating the tree with little toys
3. 'T is for the Toys, that cure all our ills'
4. 'R for the Reindeer'
1894.13.170
1. The cover artwork, as charming now as the day it was published
2. Decorating the tree with little toys
3. 'T is for the Toys, that cure all our ills'
4. 'R for the Reindeer'
1894.13.170
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Need some festive cheer? Father Christmas' ABC, published in 1894, is chock-full of delights.
1. The cover artwork, as charming now as the day it was published
2. Decorating the tree with little toys
3. 'T is for the Toys, that cure all our ills'
4. 'R for the Reindeer'
1894.13.170
1. The cover artwork, as charming now as the day it was published
2. Decorating the tree with little toys
3. 'T is for the Toys, that cure all our ills'
4. 'R for the Reindeer'
1894.13.170
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See you next year @theul.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterSolstice #YaldaNight #Midwinter
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterSolstice #YaldaNight #Midwinter
December 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
See you next year @theul.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterSolstice #YaldaNight #Midwinter
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterSolstice #YaldaNight #Midwinter
🎄Christmas is fast approaching!
☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive.
🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026.
🔗More info on last dates for request and other services: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk
☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive.
🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026.
🔗More info on last dates for request and other services: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk
December 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🎄Christmas is fast approaching!
☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive.
🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026.
🔗More info on last dates for request and other services: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk
☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive.
🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026.
🔗More info on last dates for request and other services: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk
🕯️Today, the Winter Solstice, feels a fitting time to share these photos with you from our recent Manuscripts by Candlelight* event. 🕯️
Our visitors were able to enjoy something of the atmosphere in which these precious books and manuscripts were once read.
*LED 'candles' only!
Our visitors were able to enjoy something of the atmosphere in which these precious books and manuscripts were once read.
*LED 'candles' only!
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🕯️Today, the Winter Solstice, feels a fitting time to share these photos with you from our recent Manuscripts by Candlelight* event. 🕯️
Our visitors were able to enjoy something of the atmosphere in which these precious books and manuscripts were once read.
*LED 'candles' only!
Our visitors were able to enjoy something of the atmosphere in which these precious books and manuscripts were once read.
*LED 'candles' only!
❄️ Deck the Conservation Studio with paper snowflakes! ❄️
✂️Sharon from the Conservation Department has been busy making these beautiful paper decorations.
🎼 Music is by the very talented UL choir.
✂️Sharon from the Conservation Department has been busy making these beautiful paper decorations.
🎼 Music is by the very talented UL choir.
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
❄️ Deck the Conservation Studio with paper snowflakes! ❄️
✂️Sharon from the Conservation Department has been busy making these beautiful paper decorations.
🎼 Music is by the very talented UL choir.
✂️Sharon from the Conservation Department has been busy making these beautiful paper decorations.
🎼 Music is by the very talented UL choir.
It's time for the last medieval agricultural chore of the year. December was for slaughtering the pigs, to provide provisions for the harsh winter months.
This image shows a detail from an early 14th century East Anglian Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17).
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
This image shows a detail from an early 14th century East Anglian Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17).
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's time for the last medieval agricultural chore of the year. December was for slaughtering the pigs, to provide provisions for the harsh winter months.
This image shows a detail from an early 14th century East Anglian Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17).
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
This image shows a detail from an early 14th century East Anglian Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17).
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary
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Low key, but definitely Christmas at the UL @theul.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Low key, but definitely Christmas at the UL @theul.bsky.social
"We connect people to ideas, and ideas to one another."
This year’s Annual Review highlights the remarkable breadth of work undertaken by our wonderful colleagues across our Libraries and Archives network, and at the University Library.
🔎Read it: https://loom.ly/3cGDvuQ
This year’s Annual Review highlights the remarkable breadth of work undertaken by our wonderful colleagues across our Libraries and Archives network, and at the University Library.
🔎Read it: https://loom.ly/3cGDvuQ
December 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"We connect people to ideas, and ideas to one another."
This year’s Annual Review highlights the remarkable breadth of work undertaken by our wonderful colleagues across our Libraries and Archives network, and at the University Library.
🔎Read it: https://loom.ly/3cGDvuQ
This year’s Annual Review highlights the remarkable breadth of work undertaken by our wonderful colleagues across our Libraries and Archives network, and at the University Library.
🔎Read it: https://loom.ly/3cGDvuQ
The Solexa Next Generation Sequencing archive is now available for public study at Cambridge University Library.
The archive has been donated to The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) by Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.
🔗 https://loom.ly/E9hlqOY
The archive has been donated to The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) by Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.
🔗 https://loom.ly/E9hlqOY
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Solexa Next Generation Sequencing archive is now available for public study at Cambridge University Library.
The archive has been donated to The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) by Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.
🔗 https://loom.ly/E9hlqOY
The archive has been donated to The Cambridge History of Innovation Project (CHIP) by Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.
🔗 https://loom.ly/E9hlqOY
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Festive greetings to all! @theul.bsky.social has purchased two 2026 publisher collections, hosted on JSTOR: Cornell University Press and State University of New York Press (SUNY). Backlist title access is included. ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/c...
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Festive greetings to all! @theul.bsky.social has purchased two 2026 publisher collections, hosted on JSTOR: Cornell University Press and State University of New York Press (SUNY). Backlist title access is included. ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/c...
The 2026 Sandars Lectures on 'What will survive of us', by Joan Winterkorn MBE are now available to watch online ▶️https://loom.ly/5bkd50k
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December 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The 2026 Sandars Lectures on 'What will survive of us', by Joan Winterkorn MBE are now available to watch online ▶️https://loom.ly/5bkd50k
Thank you to our Conservation team, who have been working on the de-install of the #CuriousCures exhibition – ensuring that the books and manuscripts, from our own collections and beyond, are cared for with great skill and attention to detail
#CULConservation #Conservation
#CULConservation #Conservation
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thank you to our Conservation team, who have been working on the de-install of the #CuriousCures exhibition – ensuring that the books and manuscripts, from our own collections and beyond, are cared for with great skill and attention to detail
#CULConservation #Conservation
#CULConservation #Conservation
We’re proud to be part of the Libraries Alliance - a new partnership working to strengthen libraries of all kinds. Our Head of Public Engagement, Dr Chris Burgess, recently joined other members of the Alliance to share progress with Libraries Minister Baroness Twycross at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We’re proud to be part of the Libraries Alliance - a new partnership working to strengthen libraries of all kinds. Our Head of Public Engagement, Dr Chris Burgess, recently joined other members of the Alliance to share progress with Libraries Minister Baroness Twycross at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
✨This book was once owned by Jane Austen! ✨
There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!
#JaneAusten250
There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!
#JaneAusten250
December 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
✨This book was once owned by Jane Austen! ✨
There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!
#JaneAusten250
There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!
#JaneAusten250
🎄We have a special festive treat for you today!
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🎄We have a special festive treat for you today!
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
✨ The video of the UL's Christmas Carol Concert is now live on YouTube: https://loom.ly/i1aAGZA
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The the arms of Sir William Pickering (1516-75), motto ‘hasta quando señor’ (‘Until when, Lord?’) on a copy of Archimedes (Basel, 1544). Pickering was Gentleman in Waiting to Henry VIII & later Elizabeth I’s Ambassador to the Netherlands and Germany. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social M.2.12.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The the arms of Sir William Pickering (1516-75), motto ‘hasta quando señor’ (‘Until when, Lord?’) on a copy of Archimedes (Basel, 1544). Pickering was Gentleman in Waiting to Henry VIII & later Elizabeth I’s Ambassador to the Netherlands and Germany. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social M.2.12.
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Leo XIV is the 1st Augustinian Pope, but did you know that his order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles?
@drkrisztinailko.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social @queens.cam.ac.uk reveals the forgotten lives of these wild medieval saints 👇
https://bit.ly/4rP25Qj
#skystorians 🗃️
@drkrisztinailko.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social @queens.cam.ac.uk reveals the forgotten lives of these wild medieval saints 👇
https://bit.ly/4rP25Qj
#skystorians 🗃️
Dragon-slaying saints performed green-fingered medieval miracles, new study reveals
Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles. Dr Krisztina Ilko rediscovers their lives and wild power base
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December 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Leo XIV is the 1st Augustinian Pope, but did you know that his order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles?
@drkrisztinailko.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social @queens.cam.ac.uk reveals the forgotten lives of these wild medieval saints 👇
https://bit.ly/4rP25Qj
#skystorians 🗃️
@drkrisztinailko.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social @queens.cam.ac.uk reveals the forgotten lives of these wild medieval saints 👇
https://bit.ly/4rP25Qj
#skystorians 🗃️
✨Celebrating our library stars at the 2025 Professional Services Awards! ✨
Team winner: the Department of Engineering Library Team
Team winner: the Cambridge University Library Participation Team
Individual winner: Hélène Fernandes, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library
Team winner: the Department of Engineering Library Team
Team winner: the Cambridge University Library Participation Team
Individual winner: Hélène Fernandes, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
✨Celebrating our library stars at the 2025 Professional Services Awards! ✨
Team winner: the Department of Engineering Library Team
Team winner: the Cambridge University Library Participation Team
Individual winner: Hélène Fernandes, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library
Team winner: the Department of Engineering Library Team
Team winner: the Cambridge University Library Participation Team
Individual winner: Hélène Fernandes, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library
Robins in the snow, a pup in a party hat, and a cart full of holly! The Victorians certainly knew how to do festive content.
1: The bright surprise for little eyes, 1884.7.702)
2 & 3: Father Christmas' ABC, 1894.13.170
1: The bright surprise for little eyes, 1884.7.702)
2 & 3: Father Christmas' ABC, 1894.13.170
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Robins in the snow, a pup in a party hat, and a cart full of holly! The Victorians certainly knew how to do festive content.
1: The bright surprise for little eyes, 1884.7.702)
2 & 3: Father Christmas' ABC, 1894.13.170
1: The bright surprise for little eyes, 1884.7.702)
2 & 3: Father Christmas' ABC, 1894.13.170
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❄️☃️The EFL will close our doors at 5pm on Friday 19 December, and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 5 January for staff winter leave. ☃️❄️
Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖
Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖
🎄Christmas is fast approaching!
☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive.
🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026.
🔗More info on requesting books and other services: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk
☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive.
🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026.
🔗More info on requesting books and other services: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
❄️☃️The EFL will close our doors at 5pm on Friday 19 December, and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 5 January for staff winter leave. ☃️❄️
Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖
Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖