Reminder that the Remembering the Reformation project digitised 160 pages from John Foxe's 'Actes and Monuments' - and an extremely rare coloured edition at that. 👏🏾👌🏾 #EarlyModern #History cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-K-AST-…

For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday : a #walrus, I guess 😂 Cambridge University Library Kk.4.25 (Didactic miscellany, containing a #bestiary and other texts), f. 89r England, c.1230 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-000…

Super excited to be heading to Wellcome today for the RLUK rluk.bsky.social "Celebrating Research" event. I'll be presenting the findings of my Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship on "Documenting the Role of UK Science in the COVID-19 Pandemic". lib.cam.ac.uk/documentingcov…

Do you have DAMS experience, copyright and licensing knowledge? We are looking for Picture Library Manager to join our team in Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory Cambridge University Library #jobpost #glam jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46438/

The wonderfully named Veronica beccabunga, or Brooklime. From a 250-year-old book of nature printing that belonged to Charles Darwin (1758-1778) (uncle of the Charles Darwin of the ‘theory of evolution’ fame). cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-10…

Scorpion amulets! Scorpion amulets! Get you scorpion amulets here! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AS-…

🧵I’m very excited to announce my new book, ‘The Illustrated Cairo Genizah’ (co-authored w/Melonie Schmierer-Lee), is now available for pre-order! It’s a large, coffee-table style book with 320+ images from the #CairoGenizah. See here for order info: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU #newbooks

Seeing is believing! 👀 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GONVIL…

CDH Fellowships are open to any scholar from outside the University of Cambridge working in an area of digital humanities that falls broadly within the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Funding applications close on 31 July. Find out more ⬇️ buff.ly/3R1olFR

Arts and Humanities Research Council will bring cutting edge understanding of collections, their history and their potential to drive scientific discovery. this is what #arts and #humanities can do to make #science better, for everyone dissco.eu/dissco-uk-fund…

The incredibly unique contemporary Bab Al-Salam Mosque in Oman is nothing like you’ve ever seen before! Designed in the form of a circular disc, borrowing from the moon, the windows in the shape of its crescents & its glass ball pendant symbolises the vault of heaven A thread…

Sadly, not all hillforts thrive out in the wild Take the 2.8ha multivallate enclosure of #Madmarston #Oxfordshire Ploughed to chuggery, its ditches are best seen from the air 📷 April 1961 © the excellent #CUCAP CambridgeDigitalLib Cambridge University Library cambridgeairphotos.com/location/act71/ #HillfortsWednesday

Check out Huw Jones and Yasmin Faghihi's new article 'Manuscript Catalogues as Data for Research: From Provenance to Data Decolonisation' in DigitalHum Quarterly

We found tomb stone of Abraham Ortelius 🤩

Gracias a la tecnología cualquier persona puede consultar el Códice de Beza que está guardado en la prestigiosa Universidad de Cambridge.cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NN-000…

Explore the impact of digital collections and technology on research and learning activity at this upcoming symposium. Encountering digital collections: practical approaches in research and pedagogy 17 - 18 September Read more and register below 🔗 buff.ly/3yNv5Bp

How can galleries, libraries, archives and museums enrich, facilitate and diversify their engagement with digital collections? Find out more at this free conference on 17 - 18 September. Register here: buff.ly/3Aan49Y CambridgeDigitalLib RLUK rluk.bsky.social Arts and Humanities Research Council Cambridge University Library

This butterfly is a BIG inspiration for the digitisation team. Not only is the Queen Alexandra Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) the largest butterfly on earth It inspired us to make a giant collaborative cross stitch butterfly for events. #SciArtSeptember #SciComms

Badbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset Here hemed in by two #Roman roads and some VERY interesting soil / crop marks 🤩 A gorgeous black and white aerial photo from 1957 CambridgeDigitalLib (CC BY-NC 3.0) #HillfortsWednesday

This year, 13 participants took part in our #DigiStoryFest Online Creative Residency. They worked with mentors in animation, social media, collage art, #Storytelling with 3D & creative writing to explore the theme 'journey' - discover what they created➡️ bit.ly/3McYSqm