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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excellent spolia at Mildenhall Warren Lodge. Such a fascinating piece of medieval history revealed in a recent episode of The Food Programme 🐇 @thesheiladillon.bsky.social @bbcradio4

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Beautiful details at All Saints, Walesby in the Lincolnshire wolds. Such an atmospheric space on the Viking Way.

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.” Elizabeth David, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine. Climate change is real. Fig harvest, East Anglia, 2nd August.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A 'Red Admirable', which we now call a Red Admiral! From Drawings of English Butterflies by Sir Thomas Gage (1781–1820) Vol. I, 1799 (Hengrave 61).

A photograph of an open book showing an old hand-coloured drawing of an orange butterfly. We also see a page of text about the butterfly, a Red Admirable

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hello. 💚

Close-up photograph of an orangey green Dragonfly’s face.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Gorgeous bronze & horn gift label, recording the donation of this volume to Bury Grammar School by one William Buckberd in the summer of 1565. It contains four works printed in Cologne & Antwerp in the 1560s, including Cato’s Distichs & Aesop’s Fables. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Bury.48.7.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Day 22, #30DaysWild. Seven-spot ladybird in the Dye Garden at @theul.bsky.social this evening.

A red and black Ladybird on a green Black horehound leaf, with two blurred yellow flowers in the foreground.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This first edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince contains the story of a secret love affair... 📖The Happy Prince: and other tales by Oscar Wilde illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, 1888. (Keynes.X.6.3) #LGBTQ+ #PrideMonth #RareBooks #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Illuminated initial F with St Jerome and a mysterious kneeling chap (any ideas?). In a Bible printed at Strasbourg c. 1473 and illuminated in France soon after printing. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.A.2.2[3774].

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Chun comóradh 60 bliain ó d’fhoilsigh Seamus Heaney a chéad chnuasach filíochta, Death of a Naturalist, a cheiliúradh, breathnaímid siar ar a fhilíocht trí lionsa difriúil: www.nli.ie/ga/news-stories/scealta/…

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Seamus Heaney: An Fear, an Miotas, Forbairt File

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Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

An absolutely packed room at @antiquaries.bsky.social )and more on Zoom!) to hear Andrew Honey from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk: “Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library”

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

'Printed in Defiance – Making the 1916 Proclamation' explores the story behind one of Ireland’s most iconic documents—focusing on the people who made it possible. New exhibition now open at @ucclibrary.bsky.social

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Richard Brooks photographed the three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a local church one evening in July after staking out the site most evenings over a three week period. Anglia News on 23 February 2010. http://www.richard-brooks.co.uk/3BarnOwls.html

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Cambridge University Press - Life Sciences @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org · 22/04/2026

Earth Day reminds us: progress happens across systems. 🌱 @envconsjournal.bsky.social explores the science, policy, and practice shaping how we manage ecosystems, biodiversity, and sustainability at local to global scales: cambridge.org/enc #OurPowerOurPlanet #EarthDay @earthdayorg.bsky.social

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Whether or not you have been to the Kederminster Library at Langley Marish (now in the suburbs of Slough), do share this one abd consider visiting. It’s utterly spectacular and worth a long journey. langleymarish.com/stmary/keder... - hats off for them for seeing that is open to be visited.

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The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The new Book & Paper Conservation programme at @glasgow.ac.uk's Kelvin Centre has got off to a great start. As it's the first year there are just 4 students, numbers will increase in future years. Here's a blog from them about their first semester. iconscotland.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/b...

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Book and Paper MPhil, Glasgow

By Teagan Kimbro, Anna McNulty, Charlotte Pryke and Brittany Wallace Date: January 2026 Students, (from left) Brittany Wallace, Anna McNulty, Teagan Kimbro, and Charlotte Pryke posing with paper sa…

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A sunny Sunday walk with cuckoo flower dotted through the meadows 🌸 #Springwatch

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Under the Cherry blossom at @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography

Close-up view of pale pink Cherry blossom.

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The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We are part of a consortium funding conservation internships, others are Pilgrim,Swire, Radcliffe, Anna Plowden and Idlewild and Julia Rausing Trusts. Currently calling for EOIs from those interested in hosting the tapestry conservation internship. See www.icon.org.uk/resource/cal...

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Call for Hosts: Tapestry Conservation Internship

Icon is inviting organisations to express interest in hosting a fully funded internship focused on tapestry conservation

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

May not last, but today it’s full-on summer in Cambridge.

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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina

One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May. With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 06/03/2026

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day lithub.com/8-badass-lib... Obras Selectas de la Celebre Monja de Mejico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74087 #womenhistoryMonth #librarians #libraries Dorothy B. Porter

Dorothy B. Porter is standing in front of window.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Today in Brum, and delighted to see the new blue plaque in honour of John Baskerville, whose 3000+ typographical punches are in @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge (as well as being a key figure in the Midlands Enlightenment Baskerville was also Printer to the University of Cambridge).

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The brilliant Future Nostalgia project @theul.bsky.social headed by our excellent colleague Leontien Talboom! Digital and analogue preservation intertwined. It’s been great working with her in #CULconservation 💾 #DigitalHumanities

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Puzzle Binding! Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just... Had One??? And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Crocuses spotted flowering under a hedge in Ely. 📷 #photography

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A Cambridge #TheWinter10. Green alkanet, Petty spurge, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Daisy, Greater periwinkle, Red dead nettle again, White dead nettle, Green hellebore and Common field speedwell. #WildflowerHour

Montage showing Green alkanet, Petty spurge, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Daisy, Greater periwinkle, Red dead nettle again, White dead nettle, Green hellebore and Common field speedwell.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Snowdrops in Cambridge. 📷 #photography

Close-up photograph of Snowdrops against a white-painted wall.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A stunning architectural binding, executed in Italy in the seventeenth century. On Gaspare Visconti’s ‘De Paulo e Daria amanti’ (printed at Milan in 1495), a poem centred on the false death of a lover, not unlike Romeo & Juliet. Bought by @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1966 & now Inc.5.B.7.23[4467].

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Some book trade ephemera for the cold weather: a piece of frost fair ephemera printed on the frozen River Thames by (or for) Mrs Sarah Baker on 18 January 1715/16 and probably later pasted into a book. Part of a collection assembled by A. N. L. Munby and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Munby.b.131.

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A few favourites from Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature @norwichcastle.bsky.social Process, proofs and prints in the beautifully renovated galleries.

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Two days of Heritage Science and Manuscripts @ox.ac.uk with an excellent session @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Scientists, Historians and Conservators in conversation 📚

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Dark, damp, but decidedly festive 🎄 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk and @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social looking beautiful in the rain this evening. #UniversityOfOxford #OxfordGLAM

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