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🐝Did you know we keep bees at the UL? Dr Melonie Schmierer-Lee explains how she cares for our colony of bees - including queen bee, Brontë! #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #UrbanBeekeeping #Beekeeping #Cambridge Video by Blazej Mikula
What a great day in Cambridge yesterday! Many thanks to Dr Chris Duffin, Mika Hyman & Dr Adam Crothers for introducing us to the amazing Heberden Medical Cabinet @stjohnscam, & to Dr James Freeman for his curator's tour of #CuriousCures: Medicine in the Medieval World @theUL
I spy with my little eye... @theUL! From Westminster College, the UL's tower appears above a sea of leaves.
Our exhibition, Curious Cures, is closed today (21 July). The Conservation team will spend the day checking the manuscripts and will do a page turn to protect them. This gives you the perfect excuse to come back and see what's new! Book your FREE tickets: loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Our exhibition, Curious Cures, will be closed all day on Monday 21 July. Our Conservation team will check the manuscripts and do a page turn to protect them, which gives you the perfect excuse to come back and see the exhibition again! 📷 by Domininkas Zalys
A butterfly on the blooming safflower in the Conservation team's Dye Garden. 🏵️🦋 #CambridgeUniversityLibrary 📸by Kristine Rose-Beers
Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned. ⏰12 August, 7-8pm 📍Online 🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI
Cambridge University Library, seen from above the Old Schools. Thank you to the @Cambridge_Uni team for this fantastic photo!
The Really Popular Book Club is back on 29 July. Join us to discuss Terry Prachett's 'Guards! Guards!' with our special guest, best-selling science fiction writer, Dr Una McCormack. 📅TUESDAY 29 JULY ⏰7PM to 8PM 📍 Hosted online 🎟️ Free, book here: loom.ly/uZSCuxw
🎤 On 12 August, join us for a FREE online discussion inspired by our #CuriousCures exhibition. Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned. ⏰12 August, 7-8pm 📍Online 🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI
Are you coming to one of the Undergraduate Open Days this week? Don't forget to check out Cambridge University Library while you're here 👋 We're running drop-in tours 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th July. No need to book! #CambridgeUniversityLibraries
💥 CRASSH at 25! Be part of our 2026 anniversary programme! Submit your ideas in response to our anniversary open calls for a special annual lecture and a series of funded half-day events on the theme of 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh25
On 12th July, the UL is hosting 'Korea Day' – a celebration of Korean culture in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre UK. The AOI Pavilion will be in use for the event all day and unavailable to readers. There are still a few tickets left: loom.ly/dbwkDFQ
Thanks to @OrkneyLibrary we are aware that today is #CowAppreciationDay! Our collection includes this glorious early twentieth-century book of children's poetry (marketed as 'untearable'), entitled simply 'MOO COWS'. @theUL 1907.11.60. 🐮