A box full of diamonds, volcanic rock from Mount Vesuvius, and the geology guide that Darwin packed for his epic voyage on the Beagle will go on display in ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ this week as part of the first major exhibition to celebrate geological map-making.
The untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War will be revealed from today at a new exhibition co-curated by ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ’s Dr Gilly Carr.
Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts – chronicling 1,000 years of history in Old Cairo – have gone on display in ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ today for a six-month-long exhibition at ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University Library.
Hundreds of objects which tell the story of 100 million of India’s most marginalised citizens – its Indigenous and Adivasi people – are to go on display for the first time in a ground-breaking exhibition at ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) from today.
Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight million books, manuscripts and digital collections?
Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy, and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our final film celebrating Lines of Thought at ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University Library.
A hand-coloured copy of Vesalius’ 1543 Epitome – one of the most influential works in western medicine – and the first written record of a dissection carried out in England are among the objects in our latest film celebrating Lines of Thought at ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University Library.
A new exhibition has reunited the iconic photography of Herbert Ponting with the watercolours of Edward Wilson – more than a century after the two Antarctic explorers first dreamt up their plan for a joint exhibition.Â
Some of the world’s most important religious texts are currently on display in ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ as part of ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University Library’s 600th anniversary exhibition – Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World.
Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display in ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ this week as ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University Library celebrates its 600th birthday with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of its greatest treasures.
© 2025 ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ