This weekend is your last opportunity to finish the #StandingTall trail by @breaktrailcambs! . Also, don't miss our FREE exhibition, Murder by the Book. During Easter term the exhibition is open Mon-Fri 9am-6.30pm and Sat from 9am to 4:30pm.
Book here: lib.cam.ac.uk/murderbythebook

Dr Anastasia Stylianou, Munby Fellow in Global Bibliography 2023-24, will discuss the UL's Early Modern Hellenic collections in her talk 'The Greeks behind the books' on Wednesday 5 June, from 5:30-6:30pm at the UL. Book your free ticket: lib.cam.ac.uk/research-insti… St John's College, Cambridge

At long last, blue skies have returned to the UL! It has been wonderful to see the many visitors we've had at our Murder by the Book exhibition during half term. If you're looking for a free activity in the city, book your tickets now!
lib.cam.ac.uk/murderbythebook

Have you seen the cows on Laundress Green recently? Here are three facts for you to digest 🐄

1️⃣ Cows have been grazing on green spaces across Cambridge for hundreds of years.

2️⃣ Across the Green and behind the cows stands The Old Granary, a Grade II listed building at

We have a new exhibition in the Benson Gallery marking 100 years since the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, curated by Miraya McCoy (MPhil English Studies). The materials convey the spatial and organisational logics of imperialism, revealing the ways that 'spectacular' magic...

Manuscript of novel in which Poirot dies.
in Cambridge university library’s fascinating Detective Fiction show. Kept in drawer 40 years: Agatha Christie didn’t want him living on after her own death.
⁦Cambridge University Library⁩ ⁦Jessica Gardner⁩

Super article by Katrina Dean Katrina Dean and Hawking Archivist Susan Gordon about #StephenHawking Archive Cambridge University Library.

I spot pollinators on my way into Cambridge University Library nearly every morning. Usually they’re buff-tailed bumblebees (📷 1), but I don’t know which species I saw today (📷 2). Dr Jill Whitelock, do you recognize our friend?

Dr Anastasia Stylianou, Munby Fellow in Global Bibliography 2023-24, will discuss the UL's Early Modern Hellenic collections in her talk 'The Greeks behind the books' on Wednesday 5 June, from 5:30-6:30pm at the UL. Book your free ticket here: lib.cam.ac.uk/research-insti… St John's College, Cambridge

Murderous Inspirations: Crime Novels that Inspire Crime Writers will take place on 4 June from 7-8pm. This free online session, co-hosted with The Crime Writers’ Association, will see crime writers Fiona Veitch Smith, Abir Mukherjee & Nadine Matheson 🇬🇩 discuss seminal crime novels. lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/murderou…

This Wednesday at 5pm BST (12pm ET), I will speaking on a panel titled '50 Years of the Genizah Research Unit' at Assn JewishLibraries with Dr. Rebecca Jefferson and Dr. Ben Outhwaite (@AWormNotAMan). Register to attend virtually here: jewishlibraries.org/events-calenda…. Cambridge University Library Haim Gottschalk

There’s still time to sign up for tonight’s online Really Popular Bookclub featuring Girl with a Pearl Earring! lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/really-p…

There is still time to book for Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD's talk on English medieval law manuscripts!

Three moths from Moses Harris’s ‘Exposition of English Insects’ (London, 1782): “large China mark”, “grey waved”, unnamed. S391.b.78.14 Cambridge University Library

‘I received from the Rev. Mr. Ray, of Redland, near Bristol, a box containing twelve Swallow-tailed Caterpillars …’ Moses Harris, ‘The Aurelian: or, natural history of English insects’ (London, 1766). MH.8.13 Cambridge University Library

Lawn maintenance in the 1890s, with a Thomas Green & Son Ltd mower. From an uncatalogued photograph album in the Map Department, Cambridge University Library. #GardenHistory

I’ve shown Cambridge University Library’s huge Baskerville Bible (Cambridge, 1763) to visitors countless times, but only noticed last week that it has tiny gilt butterflies at the head and foot of the spine! Cambridge University LibrarySpecColl Rel.bb.76.1. Baskerville Punches

It's a Bank Holiday, but we're open as usual today, 9am-10pm!

Tickets are available for our crime fiction exhibition, Murder by the Book. Click here to pre-book: loom.ly/ix0vIuI

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