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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is fundamentally shite of Google, and it's a good moment to recall that archive.org holds about 900K public-domain books originally digitised by Google, and that IA's metadata may be lousy but their search is good.

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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible

Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨 #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden

A member of the UL's Conservation team planting a seeding in a flower bed.

A paper bag full of seeds ready to be planted.

Little seedlings growing in the courtyard of the UL. We see a wooden plant label that says: "The Dye Garden".

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Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So, it's Elizabethan England, and you need to know how to cure STDs, extract bullets, and live to be a hundred? Well, we have got the manuscript for you. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=29988

A paper manuscript lying open, displaying recipes written in cursive hand.

A page from a printed book showing illustrations of instruments for extracting bullets.

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