Becky L
@bekkhilde.bsky.social
Librarian. Lover of rare books, ballads & broadsides. Runs sometimes, swims often.
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We’re delighted to announce that our Honorary Fellows elected by the Fellowship for 2025 are Dr Ross Austin Burns and Professor David Olusoga OBE!
www.sal.org.uk/2025/11/hon-...
www.sal.org.uk/2025/11/hon-...
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We’re delighted to announce that our Honorary Fellows elected by the Fellowship for 2025 are Dr Ross Austin Burns and Professor David Olusoga OBE!
www.sal.org.uk/2025/11/hon-...
www.sal.org.uk/2025/11/hon-...
Our annual @antiquaries.bsky.social Collections & Research Day in collaboration with SGS is coming up on 1st Dec! 🎉 This exciting programme explores interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, covering 300 years of collecting history.
Book by 24th Nov to join us: www.sal.org.uk/event/crd-25/
Book by 24th Nov to join us: www.sal.org.uk/event/crd-25/
Collections & Research Day, with Spalding Gentlemen's Society - Society of Antiquaries of London
Join the Society of Antiquaries, both online and in-person at Burlington House, to celebrate our archive, library, and museum collections.
www.sal.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our annual @antiquaries.bsky.social Collections & Research Day in collaboration with SGS is coming up on 1st Dec! 🎉 This exciting programme explores interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, covering 300 years of collecting history.
Book by 24th Nov to join us: www.sal.org.uk/event/crd-25/
Book by 24th Nov to join us: www.sal.org.uk/event/crd-25/
Our Library & Collections team at @antiquaries.bsky.social has a vacancy for a fixed-term Loans Coordinator - the closing date is Monday!
Further details & how to apply 👇
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library
Further details & how to apply 👇
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Our Library & Collections team at @antiquaries.bsky.social has a vacancy for a fixed-term Loans Coordinator - the closing date is Monday!
Further details & how to apply 👇
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library
Further details & how to apply 👇
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library
A @antiquaries.bsky.social display of early-printed books on witchcraft, death & the occult just wasn't enough for #halloween, so I also dressed up as an early-printed book. 💀
#antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history
#antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A @antiquaries.bsky.social display of early-printed books on witchcraft, death & the occult just wasn't enough for #halloween, so I also dressed up as an early-printed book. 💀
#antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history
#antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history
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Want to join our lovely team? We're looking for a Loans Coordinator! It's 21 hours per week for a fixed term (7 months) and the candidate will look after our national and international exhibition and research loan requests. Deadline is 10 November. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Want to join our lovely team? We're looking for a Loans Coordinator! It's 21 hours per week for a fixed term (7 months) and the candidate will look after our national and international exhibition and research loan requests. Deadline is 10 November. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
💀🎃👻🦇 Spooky shenanigans are happening 11am-3pm this Friday (and that does mean marvellously macabre early-printed books and broadsides!) 🦇👻🎃💀
Do you dare to join us for a Halloween-themed open day this Friday?
Come along for spooky displays of objects and books, fancy dress is welcome!
www.sal.org.uk/event/haunte...
Come along for spooky displays of objects and books, fancy dress is welcome!
www.sal.org.uk/event/haunte...
Haunted by the Past - Society of Antiquaries of London
Do you dare to join us for a Halloween-themed open day?
www.sal.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
💀🎃👻🦇 Spooky shenanigans are happening 11am-3pm this Friday (and that does mean marvellously macabre early-printed books and broadsides!) 🦇👻🎃💀
A unique opportunity to be a paid maker-in-residence this summer alongside our historic collections! 🎨🖼🖌🗿
#art #sculpture #creativearts #decorativearts #makerinresidence #magnacarta #exhibition #museum #library #rarebooks #history #collections
#art #sculpture #creativearts #decorativearts #makerinresidence #magnacarta #exhibition #museum #library #rarebooks #history #collections
We're excited to be looking for our first ever Maker in Residence this summer! We're seeking a MiR who can inspire our audiences through their creative response to our exhibition #MagnaCarta1225. All the details are on our website, closing date 14 July.
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A unique opportunity to be a paid maker-in-residence this summer alongside our historic collections! 🎨🖼🖌🗿
#art #sculpture #creativearts #decorativearts #makerinresidence #magnacarta #exhibition #museum #library #rarebooks #history #collections
#art #sculpture #creativearts #decorativearts #makerinresidence #magnacarta #exhibition #museum #library #rarebooks #history #collections
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Booking closes 9 June for our conference on the intersections of text, materiality & performance, w/ papers exploring objects, clothing & bodies in performance spaces. www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/ @crems-york.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Revels Office: New Voices in Early Modern Material Culture, Theatre, and Performance - Society of Antiquaries of London
This June, the Revels Office, an international network of early career academics, will hold its first conference with the Society of Antiquaries of London. The conference showcases early career schola...
www.sal.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Booking closes 9 June for our conference on the intersections of text, materiality & performance, w/ papers exploring objects, clothing & bodies in performance spaces. www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/ @crems-york.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Still time to apply for the Head of Collections (Library, Archives & Museum) job at @antiquaries.bsky.social. Closes this Sunday night! www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#lisjobs #museumjobs #archivejobs #heritagejobs #library #archive #museum #collections #heritage #rarebooks #specialcollections
#lisjobs #museumjobs #archivejobs #heritagejobs #library #archive #museum #collections #heritage #rarebooks #specialcollections
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
May 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Still time to apply for the Head of Collections (Library, Archives & Museum) job at @antiquaries.bsky.social. Closes this Sunday night! www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#lisjobs #museumjobs #archivejobs #heritagejobs #library #archive #museum #collections #heritage #rarebooks #specialcollections
#lisjobs #museumjobs #archivejobs #heritagejobs #library #archive #museum #collections #heritage #rarebooks #specialcollections
ESTC IS BACK! 🙌 Now hosted by CERL. A happy day in library land, rejoice! 🎉
#rarebooks #specialcollections #library #estc #bookhistory #broadsides #earlyprint #printedbooks #incunabla
datb.cerl.org/estc/
#rarebooks #specialcollections #library #estc #bookhistory #broadsides #earlyprint #printedbooks #incunabla
datb.cerl.org/estc/
English Short Title Catalogue
datb.cerl.org
May 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
ESTC IS BACK! 🙌 Now hosted by CERL. A happy day in library land, rejoice! 🎉
#rarebooks #specialcollections #library #estc #bookhistory #broadsides #earlyprint #printedbooks #incunabla
datb.cerl.org/estc/
#rarebooks #specialcollections #library #estc #bookhistory #broadsides #earlyprint #printedbooks #incunabla
datb.cerl.org/estc/
📢Dream job alert! 🚨 You could lead our small & friendly team at the Antics and work with one of ✨the best✨ special collections in the country! Happy to answer informal questions about SAL / the library. Please share amongst your networks of #library, #archives & #heritage professionals! 👇
Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
April 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
Fakes and forgeries out on display today at @antiquaries.bsky.social for our April Fool's themed Open Friday 🎉 Including real medieval pilgrim badges and Victorian 'Billy and Charley' forgeries!
#fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries
#fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Fakes and forgeries out on display today at @antiquaries.bsky.social for our April Fool's themed Open Friday 🎉 Including real medieval pilgrim badges and Victorian 'Billy and Charley' forgeries!
#fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries
#fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries
Some of our @antiquaries.bsky.social treasures out on display for our special "Illuminated" Open Friday today ✨💖🌟 Open until 4pm!
March 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Some of our @antiquaries.bsky.social treasures out on display for our special "Illuminated" Open Friday today ✨💖🌟 Open until 4pm!
As part of our spring illuminations celebration tomorrow I've also been looking for modern books to show alongside the medieval orginals. These 1860s books on Illuminating are like works of art in their own right, with decorated gold bindings & wood-engraved or chromolithiographed plates.
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As part of our spring illuminations celebration tomorrow I've also been looking for modern books to show alongside the medieval orginals. These 1860s books on Illuminating are like works of art in their own right, with decorated gold bindings & wood-engraved or chromolithiographed plates.
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Join us this Friday to celebrate the arrival of spring weather and longer, lighter days in style. This free drop-in event includes creative demonstrations, a display of illuminated texts from our special collections, musical performances and plenty of shiny surprises.
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
March 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Join us this Friday to celebrate the arrival of spring weather and longer, lighter days in style. This free drop-in event includes creative demonstrations, a display of illuminated texts from our special collections, musical performances and plenty of shiny surprises.
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
If you're in central London this Friday with time to spare, pop into @antiquaries.bsky.social for a special open day on ✨illuminations!✨ I've prepared a display of some of our most beautiful manuscripts & printed books for the occasion - it's going to be fabulous! 🎨🖌📚
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
Illuminated: Open Friday at the Society - Society of Antiquaries of London
Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.
www.sal.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you're in central London this Friday with time to spare, pop into @antiquaries.bsky.social for a special open day on ✨illuminations!✨ I've prepared a display of some of our most beautiful manuscripts & printed books for the occasion - it's going to be fabulous! 🎨🖌📚
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
You know you're amongst good company when you receive an enquiry from a librarian in Australia, asking about how the binding of one of our 18thC books compares to their copy, and the reply comes back "...of course, yours is a presentation copy (hot d͟a͟m͟n͟...)" 😅
#librarylife #rarebooks #bookbinding
#librarylife #rarebooks #bookbinding
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
You know you're amongst good company when you receive an enquiry from a librarian in Australia, asking about how the binding of one of our 18thC books compares to their copy, and the reply comes back "...of course, yours is a presentation copy (hot d͟a͟m͟n͟...)" 😅
#librarylife #rarebooks #bookbinding
#librarylife #rarebooks #bookbinding
Happy birthday to the 3rd revision of Magna Carta, 800 years old today! 🎉🎂🥳 (yes, we are having cake to mark the occasion - appropriately distanced, of course!)
#magnacarta #magnacarta800 #magnacarta1225 #specialcollections #archives #manuscripts #medieval #medievalhistory #socantiquaries
#magnacarta #magnacarta800 #magnacarta1225 #specialcollections #archives #manuscripts #medieval #medievalhistory #socantiquaries
February 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy birthday to the 3rd revision of Magna Carta, 800 years old today! 🎉🎂🥳 (yes, we are having cake to mark the occasion - appropriately distanced, of course!)
#magnacarta #magnacarta800 #magnacarta1225 #specialcollections #archives #manuscripts #medieval #medievalhistory #socantiquaries
#magnacarta #magnacarta800 #magnacarta1225 #specialcollections #archives #manuscripts #medieval #medievalhistory #socantiquaries
From the latest @britishlibrary.bsky.social newsletter... not a manuscript! Of all the places who'd mix those up... 🤐😅
#earlyprint #printed #rarebooks #broadside #print #16thcentury #tudor
#earlyprint #printed #rarebooks #broadside #print #16thcentury #tudor
January 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
From the latest @britishlibrary.bsky.social newsletter... not a manuscript! Of all the places who'd mix those up... 🤐😅
#earlyprint #printed #rarebooks #broadside #print #16thcentury #tudor
#earlyprint #printed #rarebooks #broadside #print #16thcentury #tudor
Excited to say I'm one of the speakers at this year's Broadsides Day, taking place at Cecil Sharp House on 22nd February. I'll be talking about @antiquaries.bsky.social's collection of 19thC Cork ballads, now catalogued after a mere 150 years. We got round to it eventually! 🙌
#ballads #broadsides
#ballads #broadsides
January 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excited to say I'm one of the speakers at this year's Broadsides Day, taking place at Cecil Sharp House on 22nd February. I'll be talking about @antiquaries.bsky.social's collection of 19thC Cork ballads, now catalogued after a mere 150 years. We got round to it eventually! 🙌
#ballads #broadsides
#ballads #broadsides
This week's surprise book find @antiquaries.bsky.social: a lovely gold-tooled copy of a 1580 handbook of French verbs, with these charming 18th-century coloured drawings of fruits (and a broom?). Perhaps those of Lucy Strong, who signed "her booke" at the back.
#herbook #rarebooks #printedbook
#herbook #rarebooks #printedbook
January 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This week's surprise book find @antiquaries.bsky.social: a lovely gold-tooled copy of a 1580 handbook of French verbs, with these charming 18th-century coloured drawings of fruits (and a broom?). Perhaps those of Lucy Strong, who signed "her booke" at the back.
#herbook #rarebooks #printedbook
#herbook #rarebooks #printedbook
Great (paid!) opportunity for a graduate looking to get a foothold in #librarianship or #archives. And what an amazing collection to work with...
#library #archive #libraries #traineeship #rarebooks #specialcollections
#library #archive #libraries #traineeship #rarebooks #specialcollections
🚨 Exciting opportunity alert! 🚨
Trinity College is looking to recruit two enthusiastic Graduate Trainees, one to join our Library team, and one to be part of the Archives team. There is still time to apply before the deadline of Sunday 2nd February.
For details: trin.cam.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/
Trinity College is looking to recruit two enthusiastic Graduate Trainees, one to join our Library team, and one to be part of the Archives team. There is still time to apply before the deadline of Sunday 2nd February.
For details: trin.cam.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/
January 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Great (paid!) opportunity for a graduate looking to get a foothold in #librarianship or #archives. And what an amazing collection to work with...
#library #archive #libraries #traineeship #rarebooks #specialcollections
#library #archive #libraries #traineeship #rarebooks #specialcollections
Great @efdss.bsky.social lecture tonight by Dr Peter Harrop on "prog folk" and different ways of thinking about modern folklore(sque) customs, art, radicalism, inclusivity vs. first wave of folk revival... a lot to digest and ponder!
January 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Great @efdss.bsky.social lecture tonight by Dr Peter Harrop on "prog folk" and different ways of thinking about modern folklore(sque) customs, art, radicalism, inclusivity vs. first wave of folk revival... a lot to digest and ponder!