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Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the @cam-english-fac.bsky.social. Working under @theul.bsky.social. See more at: linktr.ee/eflcam Term Hours: Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm Sat: 11am-5pm
Celebrate #WorldBookDay with a look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914
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‘It is not Christopher Marlowe’s life story that we still need, but his plays and poems: we might well want to avert our eyes from the bathetically dismal life of the man who wrote them.’
Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt’s new study of the playwright.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Screenshot of the title and abstract of 'Digitality and the African Photographic Archive'.
We're delighted to share a new article by CDH PhD student Emmanuel Iduma, published in the journal Arts ⬇️
Digitality and the African Photographic Archive: Towards a Practice of Futurity
Read online: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...
Look @fitzmuseum.bsky.social, it's your DELIGHTFUL art!
03.03.2026 12:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quality Sixteen Disaster films are in again: zombies and apocalyptic nightmares--nature as the enemy. Our culture's appetite for science and catastrophe projected now on several screens at once. Abbot & Costello meet the Mummy scared me half to death, but like a gateway drug it led me on to harder stuff: Earthquake, Lester's Juggernaut and Jaws--the purest angel dust of features. Psychologists believe our deepest fears are rooted in the memories we share. Historians might disagree--this turning outward is a wartime theme. So's naked tyranny. PHILLIP CRYMBLE
A poem of our moment as it first appeared over 20 years ago in the pages of The Stinging Fly
01.03.2026 15:13 — 👍 121 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 0
Ramadan Mubarak from the EFL!
Find a quick list of resources to help support you this Ramadan, if you are observing:
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VERY EXCITING news about new film based on 'Underland' by Prof @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social from @cam-english-fac.bsky.social !!! 🎬🎞️🍿
27.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Jade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3
Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph...
Its going to be a great festival this year! For all the details, tickets and workshops go to our website www.munsterlit.ie
#corkevents #festival #poetryfestival
Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston publishes a chapter in 'The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature' (LUP, 2026)
[caption id="attachment_10253" align="alignright" width="198"] Image credit: 'The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature', Edited by Christopher...
A photograph of a character in a film. Head and shoulders, a young man with chiselled features; some drapery is visible on his left shoulder but his right is bare, and he has gold tiara-like spikes in his hair. He's standing against an ornate stone background.
The same man lying on his arms on the ground, as if in a forest, looking sulky and intense.
Oberon: I saw Cupid loose his arrow! but he missed.... 🏹 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
It's Monday morning in a never-ending February so please enjoy Rupert Everett as Oberon in the 1999 film of Dream, dir. Michael Hoffmann.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend!
#medievalsky
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.22, f. 142v
Romancing the Gothic has an online conference this year.
We're celebrating Radcliffe's posthumous publications with a conference that looks at women in the Gothic and horror and people of marginalised genders in Gothic and horror.
Join us!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
The Song of Songs: Poetry in History
10 April 2-5pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.
www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...
It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning to cope a young boy in my garden is bailing out water from his flower patch when I ask him why he tells me young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.
happy Audre Lorde’s birthday to all who celebrate
18.02.2026 09:37 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Engraving showing a horse in profile
Happy Lunar New Year! This beautiful specimen is from our 1668 edition of 'Markham's master-piece ... touching on curing all diseases in horses', a seminal text on horse care #LunarYear #YearOfTheHorse
17.02.2026 09:33 — 👍 37 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
‘If you asked anyone in 1610, what’s Shakespeare famous for, they would likely have said, oh, that terrific poem ‘Venus and Adonis’ – God, I enjoyed that.’
Mark Ford on Shakespeare’s narrative poems on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Green squiggly border surrounds beige poster. Large black text in the centre reads, 'If music be the food of love, play on'. Hand drawn looking stars highlight edges of text. Underneath text is an illustration of a fluffy pancake stack with fruit and syrup on the top.
Did Valentine's Day pass and you still aren't sure if you are doing this romance thing right?🤔
Yeah, we don't know either.
But every day is a good day to find an ebook you love. Click the link below to explore some of the things random items we ❤️love❤️ in our collection.
tinyurl.com/3ft9t2am
Monochrome photograph featuring a line of six white girls in dresses sitting on the outside step of a wooden building while reading books
Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
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👑Ahead of our new production of Henry V, we brought Alfred Enoch, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Hassall, and Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey together to reflect on Shakespeare's epic history play.
Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg
Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
One for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SHAPE) researchers interested in open science, and hot off the press (as well as, naturally, open access).
10.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of the first page of Violent Waters book.
Cover of 'Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England' by Elly Robson Dezateux
*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England*
An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️
Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
This World Day of The Sick we take time to remember those in our lives who are unwell.
Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar, is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing.
Purchase via: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Many people interested in Ros' research! You might like to know that Professor Oates is giving a keynote lecture at this year's Reformation Studies Colloquium in April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
For the Material/Visual culture enthusiasts?
10.02.2026 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The EFL's Monday morning #vibe. 💤🐢🪄🧚📖📚
#MoonMad
Nice to see you 📚👋🤓 @cam-english-fac.bsky.social
06.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0