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Matt Shaw

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In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 12h

The Edinburgh Journal of Botany now has its entire archives freely accessible online (if you go back far enough, you can read Beatrix Potter’s papers…)

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Journals

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Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 11h

Printed pointy hands (index or fist) are instructional and from the author/publisher/compositor. So when people just say manicule for any pointy hand we lose the material specificity that indicates particular uses and practices. I think these differences matter for book historians. 3/n

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 12h

Simple. Just wait about thirty years.

on.ft.com/4q6LYwQ Who should decide what makes a building beautiful?

Who should decide what makes a building beautiful?

Everyone agrees that we need more homes, and fast — and that we want them to look good. But who should be the judge: architects, governments or the general public?

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on.ft.com/4nIMHT7 ‘They wanted me to make myself obsolete’: translators find themselves at the sharp end of AI

‘They wanted me to make myself obsolete’: translators find themselves at the sharp end of AI

One linguist on the challenges of working in an industry most at risk from automation

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Jean-Charles Geslot @jcgeslot.bsky.social · 1d

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

It was two OUP books.

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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 1d

Today was my last day as Special Collections Photographer at @stjohnsox.bsky.social. I am proud to say that I am responsible for most of the 100+ individual items now available on Digital Bodleian from SJC's special collections. You can view them all here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-...

Photograph of the Canterbury Quad in St John's College

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Wheel Talk www.peterharrington.co.uk/wheel-talk-1...

Wheel Talk.

Wheel Talk. A substantial run of this scarce bicycling trade paper, published at the height of the women's cycling craze in Europe and America. Each chatty issue, published by the world's largest bicy...

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 1d

This should have been a September Connections

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How did you do in Connections today? Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. nyti.ms/42CmcGB

Game board for The New York Times "Connections" puzzle, showing 16 light-colored squares with words/phrases.

Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 1d

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Read Banned Books

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Manchester celebrating public libraries - 175 years since the Public Library Act

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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 10d

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 4d

1915 found it tricky, too.

Count Slain...but does not know which count

Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 4d

and on living in an aristocratic country

Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 4d

the disadvantages of living in a democratic country trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...

THE VANDERBILT WEDDING. - GIFTS WORTH £250.000 - The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) - 18 Mar 1908

Miss Glady s Vanderbilt, possessor in her own right of £2,400,000 on January 28 became the wife of Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Henrick Simon Szechencyi, fourth son ...

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 4d

very pleased to have been led down this blind alley www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/STR...

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 5d

new band name: John Leason and the Compositors

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

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IG newberlinlibrary

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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