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Rare books, manuscripts, special collections. Also allotments, nature, etc.
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We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Useful charm against rats for librarians and archivists (or any of us really) from @theul.bsky.social
Listen to two new choral works from the Timeline Choir inspired by our #CuriousCures exhibition! 🐀
‘A Charm Against Rats’ by composer Charlotte Baskerville is inspired by a 15th-century manuscript (@caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 457/395, f. 1v).
Hear the full version: https://loom.ly/2fJO_xs
‘A Charm Against Rats’ by composer Charlotte Baskerville is inspired by a 15th-century manuscript (@caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 457/395, f. 1v).
Hear the full version: https://loom.ly/2fJO_xs
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Useful charm against rats for librarians and archivists (or any of us really) from @theul.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky people! Rome info needed! Any tips for good things to see and do on a short visit (besides forum, Vatican, etc)? Especially nice eating places in Trastevere or centre?
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Hello Bluesky people! Rome info needed! Any tips for good things to see and do on a short visit (besides forum, Vatican, etc)? Especially nice eating places in Trastevere or centre?
New look for @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogs in future, plus access to archived blogs to come this month
Our blogs have a new look: bit.ly/BL-Blogs
All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.
All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.
Blogs and updates from curators, staff and guests - British Library
Get the latest stories and updates from our curators, cataloguers, reference staff and guest contributors. Find out more about amazing items in our collection.
bit.ly
September 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New look for @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogs in future, plus access to archived blogs to come this month
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A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
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September 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
Here it is! My second copy of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Ring The Hill, after the first one got eaten by Royal Mail. Looking forward to Everything Will Swallow You arriving this week too
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Here it is! My second copy of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Ring The Hill, after the first one got eaten by Royal Mail. Looking forward to Everything Will Swallow You arriving this week too
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social (not sure how this even works - just spent half an hour cursing over bsky age verification and found I can't DM you anyway)
Alas, my envelope arrived damaged - minus the book! Do you have any more left?
September 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social (not sure how this even works - just spent half an hour cursing over bsky age verification and found I can't DM you anyway)
Looking forward to attending this next week very much. Great model for a conference - 3 afternoons, remote, and very affordable. Real accessibility boost. I heard there are even some places left!
We are delighted to announce that ✨booking is open✨ for #RBSCG25, the 2025 CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group conference.
Theme: Systems, Standards and the Discoverability of Special Collections
Dates: 3-5 September, afternoons
Place: Online
rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com
Theme: Systems, Standards and the Discoverability of Special Collections
Dates: 3-5 September, afternoons
Place: Online
rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com
CILIP RBSCG Conference 2025
Standards, Systems and Discoverability of Special Collections
RBSCGconference2025.eventbrite.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Looking forward to attending this next week very much. Great model for a conference - 3 afternoons, remote, and very affordable. Real accessibility boost. I heard there are even some places left!
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Inspired by the #RBMS26 conference theme, I decided to invest in advocacy by fighting against the algorithmic internet and returning to blogging, and our old friend Tumblr. I intend to compile the news I share here once a week into a big reading list of links like the days of RSS. 📜
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Tumblr in 2025? How quaint!
2025 inspires a return to quaint, I think. Remember the pre-algorithmic internet when we found things by RSS…
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July 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Inspired by the #RBMS26 conference theme, I decided to invest in advocacy by fighting against the algorithmic internet and returning to blogging, and our old friend Tumblr. I intend to compile the news I share here once a week into a big reading list of links like the days of RSS. 📜
@materialwills.bsky.social Enjoying the talks so much it's hard to concentrate on transcribe simultaneously #transcribathon
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
@materialwills.bsky.social Enjoying the talks so much it's hard to concentrate on transcribe simultaneously #transcribathon
Wonderful tales of the unexpected in Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban's creative approaches to wills #transcribathon @materialwills.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Wonderful tales of the unexpected in Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban's creative approaches to wills #transcribathon @materialwills.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social
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CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky.
Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world.
Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community.
www.cerl.org
Give us a follow!
Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world.
Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community.
www.cerl.org
Give us a follow!
Supporting Europe's written heritage [CERL]
www.cerl.org
June 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky.
Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world.
Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community.
www.cerl.org
Give us a follow!
Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world.
Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community.
www.cerl.org
Give us a follow!
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Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection
www.keele.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
For more on records of historic persecution of the Quakers, see this Quaker Strongrooms blogpost quakerstrongrooms.org/2012/06/06/q...
March 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For more on records of historic persecution of the Quakers, see this Quaker Strongrooms blogpost quakerstrongrooms.org/2012/06/06/q...
Saw part of the Curious Cures exhibition on medicine in the medieval world at the opening last night @theul.bsky.social. Now really looking forward to a proper visit soon www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncu...
Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World
Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here The Curious
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Saw part of the Curious Cures exhibition on medicine in the medieval world at the opening last night @theul.bsky.social. Now really looking forward to a proper visit soon www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncu...
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'Curious Cures...at Cambridge University Library... [results from] a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments, from compendiums of cures to alchemical texts and guides to healthy living.'
Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine
Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure lice
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
'Curious Cures...at Cambridge University Library... [results from] a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments, from compendiums of cures to alchemical texts and guides to healthy living.'
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And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcP...
Virtual Library Visit - The Sinai Library: A Treasure Held in Trust
YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcP...
Replica Ben Franklin printing press in action today in St Bartholomew the Great Lady Chapel, Franklins's workplace in the 1720s. Part of the Franklin 300th anniversary commemoration www.greatstbarts.com/benjamin-fra...
February 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Replica Ben Franklin printing press in action today in St Bartholomew the Great Lady Chapel, Franklins's workplace in the 1720s. Part of the Franklin 300th anniversary commemoration www.greatstbarts.com/benjamin-fra...
Just been on an amazing virtual visit to the library of St Catherine's Monastery Mt Sinai. If you missed it, the recording will be available soon on The Bibliographical Society website bibsoc.org.uk
February 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just been on an amazing virtual visit to the library of St Catherine's Monastery Mt Sinai. If you missed it, the recording will be available soon on The Bibliographical Society website bibsoc.org.uk
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It's the final week of our #MedievalWomen exhibition and we've been working on restoring our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project online. The first manuscripts are now available!
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
February 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It's the final week of our #MedievalWomen exhibition and we've been working on restoring our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project online. The first manuscripts are now available!
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
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Interesting new series of blogs from the Natural History Society of Northumbria on Pitmen Naturalists www.nhsn.org.uk/the-pitmen-n...
The Pitmen Naturalists: Introduction
In a new series of blogs, NHSN Archive and Library volunteer Maureen Flisher explores the lives and work of some unsung pioneers of natural history in the North East When I became an NHSN Archive
www.nhsn.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Interesting new series of blogs from the Natural History Society of Northumbria on Pitmen Naturalists www.nhsn.org.uk/the-pitmen-n...
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How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
Thomas and Austen: a gay relationship in the MERL archives? - The Museum of English Rural Life
For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.
merl.reading.ac.uk
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
Interesting PhD placement opportunity to research provenance of Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection at the British Library blogs.bl.uk/english-and-...
PhD placement opportunity: Curating the manuscripts in the Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
The British Library has released a call for applicants for PhD placements in 2025–26. The PhD placement scheme supports the professional development of researchers for future career paths both within ...
blogs.bl.uk
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Interesting PhD placement opportunity to research provenance of Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection at the British Library blogs.bl.uk/english-and-...
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Welcome to the official BlueSky for the Cambridge Doing History in Public Blog - We are a postgraduate run blog attempting to bring accessible and engaging history to the public!
You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org
You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org
Doing History in Public
doinghistoryinpublic.org
January 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Welcome to the official BlueSky for the Cambridge Doing History in Public Blog - We are a postgraduate run blog attempting to bring accessible and engaging history to the public!
You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org
You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org