We've got plenty across other collections too:
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The hidden histories of cities 🏙️

Heritage underpins our lives in so many ways, often unseen. But these hidden entanglements with the past can be revealed in historical maps. For today’s #MappingMonday we look at Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in 1908.

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

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

A small painting of a Japanese silver and enamel plate, with decorative floral border and central scene featuring two ducks swimming, that forms part of a descriptive catalogue entry alongside hand written details of the object.

If only all catalogue entries were this beautiful?!
The catalogues of Pitt-Rivers’ archaeological and anthropological collections, 1891-1896 - Nine volumes of stunningly detailed miniature paintings of each object, like this Japanese silver and enamel plate:
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

Western Medieval Manuscripts : Vie de seint Aedward le Rei This is the only known surviving copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England

@estheraddley.bsky.social - Your lead image originates from @theul.bsky.social Would you please consider adjusting the credit and maybe including a link to the source? cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0...

‘A fascinating discovery’: research challenges Battle of Hastings narrative Harold may have sailed, not marched, in 1066, reshaping explanations for his defeat in England’s historic battle

A slightly misleading depiction of the Battle of Stamford Bridge... www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
The Battle of Hastings is four pages later on...
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Wow, we hadn't noticed that one...
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What Data Leave Out Science tells us what's happening. These artists make us feel it.

Working on TheNatureRecord.org means living inside data about US nature. But numbers carry only part of the story.
In partnership with BowSeat.org, we’re excited to announce youth art winners whose work captures what data leave out—wonder, grief & belonging

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Join us next week for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences.

We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

A major new Open Research report is out: MORPHSS.
It identifies 30 AHSS‑specific open practices and shows how they enhance rigour, transparency and community‑grounded research.

Read more here www.ukrn.org/2026/03/11/l...

Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!

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An image of the edge of a medieval manuscript page with a decorative red, blue and gold scrolling leafy vine-like border. Inside the border, an ape looks up to the text whilst a blond figure wearing a red robe faces out of the page holding two toasting forks that each end with a speared golden, crumpet-like disc.

Apologies for that - it's something we've been meaning to get better at - how's this?

Q: How do you like your crumpets?
A: Golden ... with a touch of shimmer, matured for nearly 700 years, and served in the margins.
From the ever stunning Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol:
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...

... and 3D models to explore every angle!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-BASK...

Our new built in RTI viewer allows you to inspect every scratch from every angle of raking light!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-BASK...

What do you do with eight cases of Baskerville font punches?!
Have lots of digital letter fun of course!
There's even RTI and 3D Models to play with ...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Shoutout to my amazing colleagues at Cambridge & Birmingham on the 'Small Performances' project into John Baskerville's typographic punches - today is released a @camdiglib.bsky.social collection of imagery of the punches. Check it out! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

Looking for simple ways to support Wikipedia and open knowledge? Here are 5 impactful actions you can take today: from improving an article to organising your own edit-a-thon.

#openknowledge #support #WikimediaUK #Wikipedia #editing

Excerpt from the Book of Deer, written in black lettering, with the word ‘béiťh’ highlighted in yellow. Image credit: Cambridge University Library MS Ii.6.32,f.4r. Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-00006-00032/8

BEITH, BEITHE ~ a birch tree

11.. Book of Deer 4r 8

Gonice in béiťh.

One of our earliest citations, from the Book of Deer written perhaps around 1150: ‘as far as the birch tree’.

See more modern variations here: faclair.ac.uk/entries/1

#SeachdainNaGaidhlig #cleachdinocailli #gaidhlig #faclair

A Seven-spot ladybird under a dried leaf.

“Insects come forth from their hiding places.” Revett Sheppard in his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, on this day in Cambridge, 23 February 1799. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... @theul.bsky.social

A Ladybird doing the same thing in the garden yesterday.

Illuminated line drawing of man piggybacking a monkey with Latin text

Apes, dragons and medieval figures adorn the 1505 illustrated copy of the statutes of #ChristsCollegeCambridge. Look out for the signature of College Founder, #LadyMargaretBeaufort on the opening page cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI...

📷 @camdiglib.bsky.social

'The two women turned what was little more than a collection of old sheds into a purpose-built, stylish studio and shop...' @akennedysmith.bsky.social on the creative & entrepreneurial collaboration between friends & photographers Lettice Ramsey & Helen Muspratt.

In the days before drones, Charles Darwin used his kids!
The result isn't so pretty though!
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One decoration in our office to celebrate the #YearOfTheHorse is a calligraphy piece in oracle bone script reading 物華天寶，人壽年豐 — “Nature yields its finest treasures, and the people enjoy long lives and abundant years.”This is an auspicious blessing for the New Year.

Sanskrit Manuscripts : Kalāpustaka A masterfully crafted 17th-century Nepalese accordion book, completely consisting of polychrome drawings, for a total of

Happy Lunar New Year!

We're welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse with highlights from our collections 🔥🐎

Kalāpustaka, 17th century Nepalese accordion book (MS Add. 864)
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There's so many maps that we're still exploring the delights of India for #MapMonday!
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore...

"The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out", late 17th century, CUL MS Add. 8460 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... via vamoul.substack.com/p/with-hope-...

India + Maps = What's not to love! ❤️
This new portal from @mahsa-project.bsky.social you can now search and use hundreds of detailed maps of India, and find data for over 1000!
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore...