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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 19h

Red ale cooks well. Gosh, did I say that?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19h

Lectures on the buying and selling of archives since the 1970s.

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 19h

So can I. Standard, I assume.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social · 1d

Here we are. These are of the library in its 1906-75 home, built by Read & MacDonald. The bookcases are 1738/39 & were relocated from their previous home. The new library was built with the same dimensions as the old, so this gives us our best idea of what the previous one looked like.

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Friends of the Nations’ Libraries @thefnl.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy Birthday to the wonderful NLS!

National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎪 The mayhem begins!

Celebrate with us! Doors open at 10am at George IV Bridge (Edinburgh) and Kelvin Hall (Glasgow). Be among the first 500 at each site to get your special edition centenary comic, created by Beano!

#NLS100 #Beano

A sign reading ‘It’s our birthday! 100 today’ in front of the National Library of Scotland building in Edinburgh.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn is definitely here. Mutton stew now consumed, Portuguese wine bedding in, and facing the advancing of the season …

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating!

Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any pictures showing the historic college library - pre-church - in situ?

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...

Lincoln Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Library | Lincoln College Oxford

Lincoln Library 50th Anniversary

lincoln.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 3d

It’s all those vaults that put me off …

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Is it underrated? I confess I’ve just been looking at early nineteenth-century prints of unrestored Chester, and I know which I prefer …

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely unacceptable, @lucyworsley.bsky.social

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 5d

I was wondering myself what the gallows was about. Apparently it’s a reference to the nearby Execution Dock, where hangings ordered by the Court of Admiralty took place until 1830.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 5d

On Saturday at the Prospect of Whitby in Wapping, and a bit puzzled by this notice, on an open door leading onto a balcony above the Thames, at 1235pm.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 5d

Seem to have succumbed to Freshers’ Flu. A bit better for a day snoozing at home, and hopefully better still tomorrow. It’s very boring feeling ill.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 7d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 6d

This sounds jolly interesting! Just ordered your book up to @theul.bsky.social (apt, I suppose)

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 8d

First of the year.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 10d

At Battersea Power Station, and it’s definitely like being back in Cambridge.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 12d

259 years ago, on the 2nd of October 1766, ‘Cheese Riots’ broke out at the Nottingham Goose Fair after Lincolnshire merchants had bought large quantities of cheese with the intent to sell it back home. The residents of Nottinghamshire did not want food to leave their county. #otd #history 🗃️

A satirical cartoon depicting a fat 'forestaller' being dragged along by a rope round his neck by a chain of countrymen, to the cheers of a crowd. On of them shouts: “How much now you rogue in grain?” Illustration by Isaac Cruikshank

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 13d

Another year … Flags flying and bells ringing. Some sunshine would be good next.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 13d

30th September is the feast of St Jerome. This portrait of St Jerome was added perhaps c. 1070 CE.

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 389; Jerome's Life of St Paul (Vita Pauli, ); 10th century CE; St Augustine's, Canterbury; f.1v @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
@corpuscambridge.bsky.social

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 13d

Somehow I forgot the best one!

[Diminutive humans attack a giant black cat, woodcut, Japan, 1883)]

Diminutive humans attack a giant cat; a ghost-like figure sits in a flaming black boat in the top left. A political satire. Snatches of the dialogue are by groups of figures; a longer commentary is in the block above. Color woodcut, Japan, 1883 (Wellcome Collection) https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ahwjqbxj

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 13d

It’s very nearly October …

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