Our Festival of PGR Research, taking place from Wednesday 6 May-Thursday 4 June is a platform for celebrating the diverse inspiring research of our postgraduate researchers at @exeter.ac.uk. Find out more👇
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/doc...
Stewart Palmer, Information Assistant & the Legal Skills Advisor @exeterunilib.bsky.social shares his experience of attending #CopimConference via a vlog 📹
View and download the recorded slides and a 720p version of the video via @archive.org
🔗 copim.pub/my-experienc...
📢 Great news for South West writers...
Applications are now open for our 2026 Ronald Duncan Stipends! 🎉
If exploring archives sparks ideas for your writing, this might be the opportunity for you 📖
✍️ For more info and to apply, please visit our LibGuide ⬇️
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Archives
Cropped image from an open book, showing an illustration of a unicorn in side profile, holding up one hoof.
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the unicorns, for today is their special day!
To celebrate National Unicorn Day, here's an illustration of a unicorn from 'Curious Creatures in Zoology' (1890) by John Ashton.
📷 Reserve 398.369 ASH
#NationalUnicornDay #UnicornDay #RareBooks
The top half has a light pink background and bold black text. Heading reads “Library Easter Opening.” Below, text states: “Fri 3rd April to Mon 6th April.” A bulleted list reads: “Forum Library & St Luke’s Library: Open 24/7. Giraffe House & Cross Keys: Open 24/7. Old Library: Normal hours.” The lower section has a dark green background with white text saying, “Don’t forget your Uni card to swipe in and to borrow print!” Decorative illustrations at the bottom include a white bunny, a basket of colourful Easter eggs, and a yellow chick hatching from an egg.
Library opening times over the Easter weekend 📣
Forum & St Luke's Libraries, Giraffe House & Cross Keys: Open 24/7.
Old Library: Normal hours.
Contact us as normal via Library chat or email library@exeter.ac.uk. Staff will be on site on Saturday and Sunday.
Wishing an enjoyable weekend to all! 🐰🐣
#ExeterUni PhD Students📢
2026 Exeter Open Research Awards🏆
Doctoral students from across the University are invited to submit case studies of best practice in open research in your discipline - submit by 29 April📆
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ope...
🎉Great news for South West writers 🎉
Applications are now open for our 2026 Ronald Duncan Stipends.
If exploring archives sparks ideas for your writing, this might be the opportunity for you 📖
✍️ Info & Apply: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/Dun...
#WritingCommunity #amwriting
We're excited to be collaborating with Exeter Phoenix on a screening of the original 'The Mummy' (1932) to complement our Egypt on Screen exhibition. It will include an introductory talk by Barry Chandler.
Join us on 11th April, 2:30pm. Book here: tinyurl.com/r7y857dv
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Black and white photograph of two students looking at the University's royal charter, which includes a large round seal. Napoleon the campus cat has been photoshopped in to be lying under the seal, and one student's hand is giving him a gentle tummy scritch.
Napoleon the cat has been padding around Streatham Campus for so long that we sometimes forget he wasn’t always here… or was he?
This photo appears to show him at the presentation of the University’s Royal Charter 70 years ago.
Extraordinary longevity - or an April Fool’s miracle?
📷 EUL UA/P/3b
Shelves of books in the Chris Brooks Collection. The books in this photograph were written for children and young adults in the 19th and early 20th century, and many of them have colourful and illustrated bindings.
Our collections include the library of cultural historian Prof. Chris Brooks, comprising approx. 10,000 books. Many of these are books for children published 19th to early 20th century.
This is our most colourful book collection! 😍
#InternationalChildrensBookDay #RareBooks #Victorian #Edwardian
📢 Calling University of Exeter MA/PGR/PHD students 📢
Interested in Serious Games & Heritage? Join a funded project led by Dr Amy Cutler building a prototype RPG for disaster training in heritage.
Express interest at : ex.ac.uk/dZJ
@doctoralexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
Green background with a Special Collections border at the top and bottom of the box. The white and light green text reads: 'NEW Special Collections exhibitions available to explore in the Forum Library!' In the centre of the box are two photographs of small exhibition cases (each with four shelves) featuring archival items and rare books. Under the two photographs is written in light green text 'Level 0', and 'Level -1'.
We have two fantastic new student-curated exhibitions available for you to explore in the Forum Library!
Level 0: 'Protesting Apartheid: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group' by Alice A
Level -1: 'A Celebration of Dartmoor’s Culture' by Alice S
GW4 open research week image has a blue background and green triangles with the logos of the four GW4 institutions Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter at the bottom
GW4 Open Research week is coming🎉
20 – 24 April 2026
This week-long celebration will showcase the many ways open research practices make scholarship more accessible, transparent, reproducible and visible.
See the full programme and register online: gw4.ac.uk/orw/
@gw4alliance.bsky.social
Cropped image from a book, showing a colour illustration of a manatee, lying on its side on sandy-coloured ground, next to a body of water. It looks exhausted and bit fed up!
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the manatees, for today is their special day!
To celebrate Manatee Appreciation Day, here is an illustration from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#ManateeAppreciationDay #ManateeDay #RareBooks
Book in for a Creative Writing Workshop and Author talk with Noreen Masud as part of Words Alive in Libraries www.ticketsource.co.uk/literature-w...
Don't forget, our Liaison Librarians and Study Skills team are available for 1:1 appointments online as well as in person!
Find your subject's Liaison Librarian via the drop-down here: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/liaison
Book a Study Skills appointment here: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/skillsappoin...
📖✏️💻
A teal and dark green poster titled “University of Exeter Library” promotes LibGuides. Large turquoise text reads: “Find Your Way with LibGuides.” Below the heading is a wooden-style signpost with four pastel purple directional arrows. The arrows are labelled, from top to bottom: “PGR Library Support,” “Distance learners,” “Online students,” and “Book a 1 to 1.”
We have over 400 LibGuides on all things #Library and #StudySkills, but did you know we have specific ones for PGRs and Distance/Online Students?
Check them out here 👇
PGRs: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/PGRhome
Distance/Online: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/distancelear...
🎧Take a listen to this brand-new #podcast interview by our intern and filmmaker, Simran Sanghera, with our #Curator, Phil Wickham. Simran and Phil discuss what makes the #museum special, its history and our exciting plans going forward: www.youtube.com/watch?v=43cx...
#museumsky #filmsky
It is starting to feel very spring like here in Exeter 💐
Napoleon decided to pay the DH Lab a visit this morning - he seemed to be enjoying the flowers! 🌼🐱
📷 Emily (DH Intern)
#DH #DHLab #DHInterns #Digital #Humanities #HASS #DigitalHumanities #Cats #Cat #CatsofBluesky #Spring #March #Research
📚 WORDS ALIVE IN LIBRARIES 🌿
The creative workshop is now sold out, but there are still spaces available for the author talk with A Flat Place author
@noreenmasud.bsky.social!
📅 26 March 2026
📍 University of Exeter (Streatham)
⬇️ Find out more!
@swrls.bsky.social @literatureworks.bsky.social
Our latest blog comes from stipend holder, independent writer and researcher Martin Stollery, who has been investigating the careers of three writers in our Rank Scripts Collection.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/2jpz3n6m
#blog #research #scripts #museum #film
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social
This week is Sign Language week! We've teamed up with the MUFFIN Project at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and The Thalassophile Project to teach you some amazing British Sign bring for marine animals.
Full glossary here - www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/
🦑🌍🧪🌐🐟🌊
Engraving of an aardvark from a book. The aardvark is standing in side profile, in front of a landscape which is presumably a savanna, next to what look like termite hills. It has a stocky body, a long tail, bristly hairs, and rabbity ears. A teeny-tiny tongue protrudes from its elongated snout. It is standing on four stocky legs, and has flattened nail-like hooves. The caption under the engraving reads: 'Aard Vark - Orycteropus Capensis'.
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the aardvarks, for today is their special day!
This engraving of an aardvark is from the book 'The Illustrated Natural History' by J. G. Wood, published in 1863.
📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO
#NationalAardvarkDay #AardvarkDay #Aardvarks #RareBooks
A blue background with black text reading: Meet the Guide Dogs. Time to Pat and Chat! Meet Guide Dogs and Puppies at the International Study Centre Wednesday 29th April 2026 10:20 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 14:40. For the welfare of the Guide Dogs, the numbers of participants are limited. White text reads: Tickets are free and are available from the International Study Centre reception team. A blue pawprint logo and text reading 'In support of Guide Dogs' is in the bottom left corner. In the middle at the bottom is a photo of one golden and one black Labrador puppies.
Meet Guide Dogs and Puppies at the International Study Centre!
📆 Wednesday 29th April 2026, 10:20-12:00 and 13:00-14:40
Free tickets available from the International Study Centre reception team.
All welcome - students, staff, and friends!
Various book covers on scientific topics with 'British Science Week' in blue capital letters on a white background.
It’s #BritishScienceWeek 6th-15th March!
Check out the popular science books at the Library - find them in the Non-Fiction collection, under the Topical Reading Lists tab, at: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/wellbeing
To remind you of the importance of sleep on World Sleep Day, here's a photograph from our archives of Rupert, the favourite cat of the Cornish poet Charles Causley!
Why not be like Rupert today and find a cosy spot to enjoy a nice snooze!
📷 EUL MS 50a/2/2/6/9
#WorldSleepDay #ArchiveCats #Archives
Thrilled to be involved in this fantastic project!
#WomensScreenWork #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DHLab #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Film #TV #WomenFilmmakers #Archives #FilmArchives
Plan of Exeter, decorated in shades of red, yellow, green, brown and blue. The map was engraved by John Roper and dates to 1810. A reference key on the right lists the places of worship in each ward. At the bottom of the plan is an illustration of Exeter Cathedral.
This colourful plan of Exeter, dating back to 1810, was engraved by John Roper. It includes a lovely illustration of Exeter Cathedral.
Which landmarks can you identify that still exist today? And what has changed?
📷 Townsend Maps T17
#MapMonday #MappingOurExeter #Maps #Exeter
#ExeterUni researchers – we renewed our Read & Publish agreement with Rockefeller UP @rupress.org for 2026-2027
Publish #OpenAccess without APCs when you are corresponding author in Journal of Cell Biology; Journal of Experimental Medicine; Journal of General Physiology
rupress.org/journals/pag...
#ExeterUni PhD Students📢
the 2026 Exeter Open Research Awards are open for submissions!
Doctoral students from University of Exeter are invited to submit case studies of best practice for open research in their discipline🏄♀️
Submit by 29th April 2026
Find out more: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ope...
