Dr Mark Purcell

The cool Hercules grand staircase at the 18th c. palace of Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands, in Brussels. The Hercules statue was made by Laurent Delvaux. Photo by Hanno Lans.

Liverpool Cathedral in the sunshine.

Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers, opens this Friday 20 March at Cambridge University Library. 🎟️ FREE entry 📍Cambridge University Library and Pembroke College 🔎 Find out more: loom.ly/48X86bY #LivingWater

View of Liverpool from the docks. Goodnight folks.

Call for papers klaxon!! 📢 Harmondsworth600 | Celebrating six centuries of the Great Barn at Harmondsworth, the largest surviving medieval timber-framed barn in England. There's still time to send in a proposal before the deadline 20th March 2026. CFP: english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/h…

"I never would have dreamed, as an eighteen-year-old arriving in Cambridge for the first time, that I would now be standing here as Chancellor." Chris Smith, Lord Smith of Finsbury, has been formally installed as the 109th Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, following his election in July 2025. Explore more about the ceremony 👉 cam.ac.uk/stories/chance… #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge

As a former Cambridge University Libraries and Archives Syndicate member, Chris is well known to many in our network and we send our hearty congratulations!

Saw this amazing, newly discovered ‘A Village on Fire’ by Wright of Derby at TEFAF in Maastricht. One of Wright’s last works, 1794. Superb, museum quality picture (with Patrick Bourne & Co).

Great Malvern priory #stainedglasssunday

Cambridge looking glorious! 😍

@william_whyte Pas mal

How about that for a meeting-room view?

Let the music commence: it's the weekend! #Weekend BL Cotton MS Tiberius C VI, f.30v @BLMedieval

@arkadisch Doesn’t look good too bad

in a bad place rn

Tiny village of Deerhurst possesses one of the most important Saxon churches in England. St. Mary’s is dating back to 700AD. Visited last week when brief sunshine was warming its ancient walls Gloucestershire

It really is rather a magnificent building…

The entire block book has been digitised and can be seen here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ed7897…

Please note that our Manuscript and Rare Books services will not be available on Monday 16 February. This is to allow staff to complete the move to the new combined Special Collections Reading Room, which opens on Tuesday 17 February. Learn more: loom.ly/OQYhclI

A rather jazzy portrait of Lucy Sutherland

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 10077; Fuldar Sacramentary; 10th century; Northwest Germany (Fulda School); f.11v @bsb_muenchen

Initial 'V'(erbum) in which is entwined a dragon, a dog, a bird of prey, and deer. Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 11; Hieronymus, Expositio in 12 prophetas minores, pars prima; beginl 12th c; All Saints, Schaffhausen; f.4r (e-codices.ch/de/list/one/sb…)