The 600-year-old Bury Psalter was displayed at St Eds Cathedral over the weekend. You can now journey through its beautiful illuminations in our new online display. ow.ly/jSjE50NQ8Ja

A chance to spot the Augustine Gospels (MS 286) in action: Augustine Gospels is to be carried in the #Coronation procession of King Charles III We're honoured to be part in another moment in British history bit.ly/3n9UyiG

Wow! Did you see it? #CoronationConcert CUBG was honoured to be one of the iconic landmarks illuminated as part of ‘Lighting up the Nation’ during the King’s Coronation Concert. #sustainability #climate #plantcollection

Ancient Cambridge tree lit up for Coronation by pedal-power bbc.in/3NO3NAb

📔 A prayer book belonging to Trinity College has been identified in a portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister. Trinity has now lent the book to Hever Castle, whose curators made the discovery 👇 Trinity Library bit.ly/45N9btX

The BBC East website has reported on the digitisation of Samuel Pepys's medieval manuscript fragments Fragmentarium #camlibs bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

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👻 These two ghostly figures are Henry VIII & Charles I, meeting for the first time in the burial vault they share. It is a copy made by Queen Charlotte from a book called ‘A Messenger from the Dead, or, Conference full of Stupendious Horrour’, first published in 1658.

Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their loved ones have finally been read – 265 years later! 📝 The letters were seized by Britain’s Royal Navy during the Seven Years’ War and forgotten about until @RenaudMorieux of Cambridge History discovered them at the The National Archives 👇

Remember to listen out for our bellringers this weekend in central Cambridge, starting from 10am tomorrow: Caths.cam.ac.uk/550

‘I shall be very thankful to any Gentleman that will be pleased to send any curious Birds ... to Eleazar Albin near the Dog and Duck in Tottenham-Court Road.’ Explore the work of the intriguing naturalist and watercolour teacher Eleazar Albin on our blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/12/s…

Early Tudor wall paintings found in College loft space reveal royal 'branding' ow.ly/xtYs50Qpcs7 Cambridge University Dr Christina J Faraday Simon McDonald #tudor #twitterstorians #margaretbeaufort

To celebrate the centenary of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, Her Majesty The Queen The Royal Family has championed an initiative to establish a modern-day miniature library featuring leading writers, illustrators and binders. #QMDH100 bit.ly/3HE7NyU

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Another busy week of events at Selwyn. You can catch up with videos of all our recent sessions on the college YouTube channel: youtube.com/@selwyn1882?fe…. The Cambridge University vice-chancellor’s session on democracy is available here: youtu.be/7XCV_pf4yhE?fe…

Enjoying the combination of these handsome creatures and the beautiful backdrop of Cambridge's colleges, and the UL #BeMoreGiraffe

A Cambridge UL Special Collections blog by Matt Ryan has left looks at three pamphlets in the Catz collection which survived despite being banned in Elizabethan England, revealing info about censorship in the late 16th-century & why later readers were drawn to their message: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28678

The bells of Willingham Church were ringing yesterday morning to celebrate the bells being 100 years old. In 1924, the church's five existing bells were melted down & recast & a sixth bell was added, & all were hung in a new steel frame #willingham #bellringing

A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge University Library and successfully digitised using cutting-edge imaging techniques ⚔️ 🤴 Explore behind the scenes 👇 cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin…