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Welcome to Kaddy Benyon, the new Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the UL. One-to-one academic writing support sessions with Kaddy are available for all current University of Cambridge students & staff. 📍 In person at the UL or online 📅 From 12 Oct ✉️ Book now via [email protected]

Portrait of Kaddy Benyon standing in Cambridge University Library, wearing a bright blue jacket in front of tall wooden bookshelves filled with bound volumes.
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📜 Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles 
Join us for the 2026 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered by Professor Marina Rustow.
17 & 18 November 2026
5-6pm
In-person at Robinson College & online
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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As another night of plotting in the turret commences, we ponder: Will three traitors remain by the end of the evening? And will our esteemed colleague, Hannah Fry, make it to breakfast tomorrow? We're rooting for you, Hannah! 🤞 Manuscript: Vie de seint Aedward le Rei (MS Ee.3.59), c. 1250-60.

Medieval manuscript illustration showing three figures leaning in closely as two seated scribes write on parchment while a hooded figure in red gestures toward them.
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Join us for a panel discussion with leading researchers exploring the cultural importance of water and the environmental challenges facing the life it sustains.

📆Thursday 22 October
⏰5.30 to 7pm
📍Cambridge University Library
🎟️FREE, but booking is essential: https://loom.ly/_NYl-Kk

Event poster for Cambridge University Library titled "Change, Connection & Aquatic Life: A panel discussion," featuring a photo of a calm river surrounded by lush green trees.
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This is the oldest sample of Hebrew text with European musical notation. It's an autograph manuscript of Obadiah the Proselyte, a Norman-Italian priest who converted to Judaism in 1102. He traveled to Egypt and Syria, using his knowledge of Gregorian Chant to record Hebrew poetry. @theul.bsky.social

Torn brown paper manuscript with about 20 red-ruled lines with sporadic musical notes and Hebrew text. The background is a blue and a yellow label reads T-S K5.41 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00005-00041/2).Torn brown paper manuscript with 6 lines of Hebrew text and musical notation. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S K5.41 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00005-00041/1)
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Welcome to all those joining or returning to the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. Take a look at the Termly Update shared by @theul.bsky.social to find out about the amazing resources and training available to you. Love that a photo of the Chemistry Library features too! #ChemAtCam

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Welcome to Michaelmas Term at University of Cambridge Libraries! 🎓✨

Whether you've just arrived or are returning, our Termly Update has everything you need to get your academic year off to a great start. 📝📚

➡️ Get the guide: https://loom.ly/-fR71X8

Photo by Alice the Camera

Distant view of Cambridge University Library Tower framed by tree branches and foliage, seen from a paved pathway on the Sidgwick Site with bicycle racks under a sunny blue sky.
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As we bid farewell to September, let's enjoy this lovely description from an 1818 children’s book: “The days are now very sensibly shortened, and the mornings and evenings are chill, though the warmth is still considerable in the middle of the day.” Does this sound like your September?

A close-up detail of a hand-coloured woodcut illustration from an 1818 book. It depicts a woman in early 19th-century attire standing outdoors while a man kneels nearby gathering crops beneath a large leafy tree.An open antique children’s book from 1818 showing the title page titled "Juvenile Library. A Picture of the Seasons; with Anecdotes and Remarks, on Every Month in the Year" printed in London. On the left page is a colourful vintage woodcut illustration showing straw or wheat being swept in a storm.
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This spellbook (~13th c.) is great. It's got spells for invisibility, protecting travellers, predicting pregnancy, causing love and hate, and scrying in a mirror. The magician started a spell for "gathering demons," but seems to have had second thoughts and stopped after 4 words. @theul.bsky.social

Brown, waterstained paper bifolium on a blue background next to a yellow label that reads T-S K1.132 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00001-00132/2)
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