@camglamresearch
A University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative to catalyse and support projects and communities of researchers across @camunivmuseums.bsky.social, @theul.bsky.social, @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social & other collections. https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/
Montage of three images showing pressed plants in printed books.
A pleasure to host a @camglamresearch.bsky.social workshop yesterday @theul.bsky.social on ‘Discovering pressed plants in books and how to care for them’, led by @annalsvensson.bsky.social.
Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.
Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804, King's Parade, Cambridge, between 1798 and 1799, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1996.22.25.
1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️
A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism.
🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...
What will your event be?
Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫
Have you got an idea that may:
- Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures?
- Forge new collaborations ?
- Bring academic research to wider publics?
- Explore research and artistic practice?
Apply by 17 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3CaV97M
Plant specimens in the bound herbarium collected by William Paine titled "Plants collected in ye County's of Hants, Sussex, Surrey, Bucks, Berks, Middlesex & Oxon Anno 1737". The specimen of Navelwort (modern Umbilicus rupestris) beside it also appears to be from the same location)
"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @timpurches.bsky.social
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There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of?
This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials.
📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00
Please share!
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The zoology collection in Turin shares the same building as the herbarium, and I thought this was the most beautiful display @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
Photograph of the John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
Join us for a Collections Lab at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social: ‘Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction’, 27 March 2026, 12.00-2.00 pm.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/events/item/... @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
Pride in Nature tours poster
Penguin
Giraffe skeleton
It’s LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️ History Month, so let’s celebrate diversity in nature. Our penguin 🐧 and giraffe 🦒 both represent animal groups famous for their same-sex relationships and behaviour. If you want to learn more about non-binary nature, come on one of our tours @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
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
Mounted slab with a v-shaped graptolite on it, surrounded by curatorial labels.
For #FossilFriday, a cute Didymograptus deflexus collected by William Kinsey Dover and his sister Sarah Anne Willes Dover of Keswick, now in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social.
One for the graptolite fans.
Discussing musical instruments from Tahiti and Aotearoa New Zealand in the MAA collections. (L-R) Tahe Drollet, Rosanna Raymond, Eve Haddow, Miriama Bono, and Salvador Brown. Photograph by Rachel Hand
New blogpost: ‘Journeying with Mai: Activating Pacific arts and heritage at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’, by Dr Eve Haddow, Senior Curator in Anthropology.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/journey...
Illustration of a giant toad studded with arrows beside a dead body.
The early twentieth century is about the last time a professional illustrator might not have a dinosaur reference at hand and instead relied on the author's similes. Thus this Megalosaurus/Allosaurus in the Je Sais Tout serial of The Lost World. Conan Doyle says the dinosaur resembled a toad.
A rainbow stegosaurs
Pins: a trex and a triceratops. Both silver metal skeletons.
A display of pride pins including pronoun badges and colourful test tubes. There are home made pride flags next to them.
Before dashing off from Cambridge I nipped in to Sedgwick museum. One of the few places to get my pins in-person how cute!
"Getting to spend my last summer before university doing something I love while also preparing for my future was amazing."
Great to read the experiences of one of our Museum Experience Interns based at @maacambridge.bsky.social last summer. Applications for our next internship will open in March.
Love this - great way of showing how this kind of folding book actually worked.
Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay! 🐿️
Ambivalent Archives term events.
The Ambivalent Archives network are back this term with a number of really exciting events, starting with the participatory workshop 'Photo-Embroidery: Archiving the landscapes that we carry within'.
Find out more about the programme at https://bit.ly/4quHtfq
📺 Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil and palaeobotany 🌿
Archaeological research is transforming perceptions of the Amazon rainforest, revealing the extent of anthropogenic soils and inviting a critical rethinking of early plant use in South America
https://bit.ly/4sCT5OV
Colourful toy dinosaurs on display, including a big blue Brachiosaurus.
I like the idea of UCL students in the 1970s trying solemnly to examine the chunky Polacanthus toy and dweeb Spinosaurus. From the historic collections of the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social.
Close-up of a vibrant jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) with its distinctive turquoise, claw-shaped flowers hanging in a cascade.
Close-up image of a passion flower in bloom, showing detailed yellow filaments and green petals, against a blurred natural background.
🪴From 11 Feb-12 Apr, Talking Plants invites you to the Glasshouse Range to scan QR codes, ask questions and get a unique response inspired by that plant’s story.
🌱An interactive exhibition using AI to explore the stories of living plants – included with Garden admission.
🌿So, what would you ask?
A brightly coloured illustration with central text reading Twilight at the Museums, come and explore Cambridge museums after hours this half term, surrounded by museum icons including a book, globe, torch, lantern, camear, flower and dinosaur head.
It’s time to get glowing! #TwilightAtTheMuseums is back 🌟
Explore Cambridge museums after hours this February half term and celebrate 20 years of Twilight.
See all events and book your visit from today: www.museums.cam.ac.uk/theme/twilight
Congratulations to Kimberly Glassman, Research Associate at the Fitz and a CCC Natural History Humanities postdoc, on her publication ‘Deciphering botanical notation in William Jackson Hooker’s Flora Boreali-Americana (1829–1840)’, based on her PhD research.
www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
A presenter at a podium in a lecture theatre with a screen showing a presentation behind.
Excellent @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Forum yesterday, including a great presentation by Louise Campbell of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social on the CCC-funded project ‘Belonging: creating a shared vision of the Botanic Garden through community participatory research’.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/belongi...
There’s still time to visit the CCC African Collections Futures exhibition Bound Together: Leather from Northern Nigeria - open until 8 Feb at the Fitz!
Read the Closing Thoughts by Balqiis Ali, the intern who worked with curator Dr Eva Namusoke on the display: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/bound-t...
Urban History Evening.
Interested in the history of cities and how people shape urban space? 🏙️
Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an
interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity
20 January at 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i
A new nature Plants paper led by #CUBG Curator Professor Sam Brockington calls for gardens to work as a shared 'meta-collection' to tackle the biodiversity crisis.
Read the article here: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Call now open for Visiting Fellowships in our Natural History Humanities programme! Building long-term collaborations with early career researchers on Cambridge GLAM collections.
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
‘Inhabiting Caribbean Light’ - new post by British Academy Global Professor Marsha Pearce on belonging, artists, art collections and museum practices on the @camglamresearch.bsky.social blog.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/inhabit...