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The full collection of illustrations in 'Costumes of the University of Cambridge' can be viewed on the Wren Digital Library: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/uv…

Congratulations to all our students graduating today! Everyone at the Library wishes you the very best for the future. 🍾🥂 Academic dress has a long history in Cambridge, and these students from 1862 are rocking the same look students wear today! (X.26.31)

Inspired by the Wren Library's International Women's Day pop-up exhibition, our new blog post tells the story of Virginia Woolf and her various connections to Trinity College. Read it here: …collegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/vir…

Some bright #MarginaliaMonday images to celebrate Spring! 🌼 These illuminations come from MS R.16.25, a 16th-century Patent of Nobility: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.1…

Happy #GlobalRecyclingDay! 🧵 Throughout the day we'll be sharing examples of recycling in the Trinity collections, starting with a classic: a page from an old manuscript repurposed as a flyleaf. This one has musical notation and reparative stitching too! C14th, MS O.8.2

International Women's Day 2025 gave our Assistant Librarian the ideal opportunity to shed light on their great political heroine by telling her story with the depth and sensitivity it deserves. 💜

The Library's relationship with Luxemburg began with a large donation of books and papers from economist and former Fellow, Piero Sraffa (1898-1983). Luxemburg's work is well represented in this collection, but her story was yet to be told here in the Library... 📚

Continuing our #IWD2025 celebrations, here is our latest blog post, all about Rosa Luxemburg, the political martyr and revolutionary socialist. 🧵 …collegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/lik…

For #IWD2025 and Women's History Month, a new pop-up exhibition has been installed in the Wren Library exploring 'Resistance in the Archive'. Items hand-picked from the Trinity Library and Archive tell the stories of Virginia Woolf and suffragette, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.

Happy International Women's Day! 💜🤍💚 Here's a sneak peak at our #IWD2025 pop-up exhibition as final touches are added before opening this morning. Library Assistant, Liz, is looking vibrant in her suffragette colours! We are open 10:30am-12:30pm today. Come and say hello!

‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade’ ☀️❄️ - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

This just in: one of our Library Assistants rescued a bumble bee using a library fetching card. He assures us that the bee "had a big nectar breakfast and then buzzed off". Phew! 🐝 This job involves more than cataloguing books, folks!

We certainly think so! 📚 #BorrowableHighlight

The exhibition 'Michaelhouse 700' continues @trincolllibcam. Read a Q&A with archivist, Adam Green ow.ly/7Uz150UWFFH. Visit during public opening hours ow.ly/aMjB50UWFFG 📷 ow.ly/XKXy50UWFFF #MichaelhouseMonday #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity

For today's #MichaelhouseMonday, we are sharing a very important feature from the Michaelhouse 700 exhibition: the Deed of Foundation. This document dates back to 1324 and includes the college's statutes and a description of the opening ceremony.

Brief reminder that applications for our two Graduate Trainee posts are open until this Sunday, 2nd February, 11:59pm.

Today marks the 478th anniversary of the death of Trinity's founder, King Henry VIII. One of the Wren Library's 17th-century manuscripts commemorates him with a remarkably rosy and detailed portrait. 👑 (Trinity College MS R.17.8)

For #MichaelhouseMonday, we are sharing a page of the Otryngham Book, a compilation of deeds and other papers, begun by John de Otryngham, a 15th-century master of Michaelhouse. This page contains part of the long list of benefactors whose souls Fellows were required to pray for.

In May 2024, the Wren Library welcomed historian, Lucy Worsley, and her camera crew, who were taking a look at Trinity's copy of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1570). Don't miss episode 4 of 'Lucy Worsley Investigates', which will be aired tonight (Friday) at 9pm, on BBC 2!

They may be from different centuries, but Trinity alumni Lord Byron (1788-1824) and Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) are united not only by their alma mater, but by their shared birthday, which is today! Here they are enjoying each other's company in the Wren Library. ✍️