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Billions of words, millions of books, thousands of years of human thought and discovery. We are one of the world's great libraries.
Cambridge, UK
Joined March 2009
Join us on 30 October for some spine-chilling real-life data horror stories! Open to all research staff, students, and anyone supporting research activities. 📍Thu 30 Oct 2025, 9.30-2 at the School of Clinical Medicine 🔗Find out more and book a place: https://t.co/MjjOWDcuXL
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Hello new @Cambridge_Uni students! 🌞 It has been great to see so many of you visiting us. To help you find your way around the building and to make the most of our collections, please sign up for one of our orientation tours: https://t.co/0ugc7zfDJW
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The fine work of @makethecatwise and teams at @theUL -- essential to the preservation of our floppy disk treasures. https://t.co/gKvxAFIWZo
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From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
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From comedy improv to manuscripts by candlelight, the University Library's autumn event programme is here! 📚28 October: The Really Popular Book Club 😆20 November: Comedy Improv at the Library 🕯️4 December: Manuscripts by Candlelight 🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/R8Vtyot14v
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@TrinCollCam 🔎There are now only two months left to see Curious Cures. Don't miss your chance to see these rarely displayed manuscripts from across Cambridge together, in one place. Book your FREE ticket now:
lib.cam.ac.uk
Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here Forthcoming
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Now available: Dark Mode in Hebbia. Built for long hours and deep focus – in a design that adapts to how investors and bankers actually work.
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@TrinCollCam This image is part of a unique scientific compendium belonging to @TrinCollCam. This list of melancholic personal characteristics is inspired by a widely circulated poem, the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum. One can only speculate on its accuracy!
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Sanguine: Generous, loving, mirthful, laughing, and red in colour, Singing, fleshy, content, bold and benign. This personification of Sanguine is currently on display in our exhibition, #CuriousCures. (@TrinCollCam MS R.15.21)
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Phew! We've had a busy few days with inductions and the start of lectures. We just wanted to give a warm welcome to all of our new students and an equally warm welcome to all of our returning ones! We'll be open all Michaelmas term, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.
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There's an interesting look at working with the #CairoGenizah fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at @theUL, here in this recent blog post by @K_L_Phillips. https://t.co/desjPFFjFP
Working with fragments from the #CairoGenizah is a tremendous privilege, but can often raise as many new questions as it answers. I've just written about a particularly knotty fragment on my blog. Link in replies. #Masora
#HebrewBible
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Trump's Visit To Hungary To Meet Putin Our 2025 issue of "Russia's Perceptions of Europe" - including Hungary - is a unique guide giving an overview of Europe from the immediate Russian influential perspective, and details Russian trade, investment and interests with the
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The @ucas_online deadline for applying to Cambridge for undergraduate is today 6pm UK time. If you need some guidance on how to complete it, go to https://t.co/XVnqD1VUUz Wishing our applicants all the best!
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Proof that your social media manager spent the weekend listening to Taylor Swift's new album. #TheFateOfOphelia #TheLifeOfAShowgirl These images of Ophelia are from Shakespeare's Heroines, illustrated by R. Anning Bell, 1901 (Lit.7.90.365).
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Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE. 11 & 12 November, 5-6pm. 🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://t.co/vXB9PYWJt0
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New term, new academic year. How are you settling in? To make life easier, we’ve created a guide for new and returning University of Cambridge students, including online resources, top tips, skills training, tours, collections, and what’s new this term. https://t.co/ZxItqkVNlg
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This is what 6 MONTHS of discipline, consistency, and the right place can do to your trading account Tap in - Link in Bio
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If biblical languages are your thing, have a look at the 'fragment of the month' series from the Genizah Research Unit over at @theUL. September's fragment is here: https://t.co/vwBmd0jW8H
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Images 3 & 4: D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was first published privately in Italy and France in the late 1920s. This copy is from the second edition printed in 1928. H. C. Stanford, the Secretary of the UL, owned this copy and donated it to us in 1955. (S727.c.92.143)
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Images 1 & 2: James Joyce’s Ulysses. First published in Paris on 2 February 1922, followed by a second edition in London by the Egoist Press on 12 October 1922. Many copies were seized and destroyed, but one made its way to the UL on 19 December 1922. (Arc.b.92.4)
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#BannedBooksWeek. Over the centuries, our duty to preserve the nation’s literary output has led us to collect works of all kinds, regardless of their content. Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Ulysses both entered our collections years before they were widely available.
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Velshi and Democrats Say ‘No Kings’ Protests Are About Loving America — Then Velshi Quotes WaPo’s Trump Lie Count During his MSNBC fill-in for Lawrence O’Donnell, Ali Velshi opened a segment defending the so-called “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump — describing them as
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A pleasure to welcome the new @CambridgeFames postgrads for a @theUL induction! We showcased the library services & our world-class Middle Eastern collection, from ancient manuscripts to modern works, all ready to support their research #CambridgeUniversity
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A few spaces have opened up at our Copy that Floppy Cafe tomorrow 💾 Got an old floppy disk lying around? Have the data transferred to a modern format for free at Cambridge University Library! Book here:
eventbrite.co.uk
Got an old floppy disk gathering dust? Bring it back to life!
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Congratulations to alumnus John Clarke on his @NobelPrize 👏 Clarke received BA, MA, and PhD in Physics from @christs_college and @DarwinCollege
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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