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Stuart Kells
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History of books, history of money. Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Institute #UniMelb. Editor #LibraryPlanet. Author of Alice, The Library, Shakespeare’s Library, Penguin & the Lane Brothers
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Stuart Kells @stuartkells.bsky.social · May 14
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The world’s financial system is highly vulnerable to Trumpism
The economic and financial impacts of Trump’s program are starting to become clear with potentially dangerous consequences well beyond the US
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Trump and Musk: Bigger, better, dumber #TACO #G7 www.themandarin.com.au/293916-trump...
Trump and Musk: Bigger, better, dumber
From space colonies to imperial dreams, Donald Trump and Elon Musk offer a masterclass in misguided policy ambition.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A pair of happy birds sitting in the margin of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicæ (Lübeck, 1475-76). In the library of the Earls of Sunderland at Blenheim Palace, sold in 1882 to @quaritch1847.bsky.social, from whom likely bought by William Morris. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.A.14.1[1013.1-2].
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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lāð, adj: hostile, malign, bearing hate toward another. (LAWTH / ˈlaːθ)
Image: Rothschild Canticles; Flanders or the Rhineland, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404, f. 168v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval marginalia depicting an elephant with a trunk nearly the size of its entire body and a tower bearing three soldiers on its back facing off with a man who carries a shield and a giant sword.
June 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Bell Systems Vehicle Graphics Manual, 1970

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A speeding Bell telephone van with heavy motion blur. Very 1970s. Drawings of three different types of lineman trucks, one with a flat bed, one with a ladder, and one with a cherry picker. They're painted white and olive green with blue and yellow details.
June 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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#Breaking this classic #ACDC performance to be recreated in MEL 💙 #musicsky #skytv youtu.be/g-qkY2yj4_A?...
AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top [Official Music Video], Full HD (Remaster, Resync and Upscale)
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June 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This from 2022 ‘The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves and each other apart. There is serious talk of a Liberal split.’ w/ @stuartkells.bsky.social #auspol #AusVotes25 #DuttonDumped #ModeratesGone
FastFwd. There is serious talk of a Coalition break.
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Grifts, shifts and splits: Get ready for politics on the wild side, LNP style
The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves and each other apart.
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May 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Worlds Financial System Is Vulnerable to Trumpism!!
May 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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#Sorryday ‘Be Brave. Make Change’
Always was, always will be Aboriginal water. @unimelb @stuartkells.bsky.social
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Always was and always will be Aboriginal water
Australia needs to have a serious discussion about Indigenous water rights and Indigenous Voice in water management, say University of Melbourne experts.
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May 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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First Look 🌱🌸⚜️

This beautifully bound edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass features an elaborate gilt foliate design in an arts and crafts style.

You can see this item displayed by Lucius Books at Firsts this year.

Find out more: www.firstslondon.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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First Look at another highlight you can see at Firsts 💐

A lovely example of a miniature ‘language of flowers book’ from Camden Lock Books.
April 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...
The world’s financial system is highly vulnerable to Trumpism
The economic and financial impacts of Trump’s program are starting to become clear with potentially dangerous consequences well beyond the US
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
May 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928

Zwart’s innovative use of bold typography, dynamic layouts, and photomontage transformed otherwise dull topics into avant-garde masterpieces.⁠

Grab the facsimile: letterformarchive.org/shop/nkf-pie...

#PietZwart #ModernistDesign
May 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Before and After

The Day After Judgement by James Blish. 1974, cover art by David Pelham. #booksky
a multi-colored snaggly-tooth 'dragon' head
May 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Spotted down the shore, in Belmar, NJ (didn't realize there were many more!)
smiling large yells robot Alan the Robot details
May 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Antiquariat Walter Markov, Bonn - Antifaschistische Tarnschriften & illegale Kleinschriften, Dünndruckschriften 1933–1945 antiquariat-markov.de #Antiquariat
May 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...
The world’s financial system is highly vulnerable to Trumpism
The economic and financial impacts of Trump’s program are starting to become clear with potentially dangerous consequences well beyond the US
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
May 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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jimstokes.bsky.social
All aboard! Another BlueSky book review "par excellence!"
The Ship from Outside by A. Bertram Chandler. 1963, cover art by Ed Valigursky.
April 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Here is another golden example from the #LibraryStampMadness series: featuring a thoughtful stamped horse connecting humans and the stars.

Experts do know that this library stamp is from the HAB Wolfenbüttel. #bookhistory
Title page of VD16 B 803 showing a stamp in the middle between a man and a woman. The stamp of the library connects humans and the stars.
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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tygertale.bsky.social
Sad to hear about the passing of Rosemary Sandberg, co-founder of the Puffin Club with Kaye Webb and later editor of Collins' rival to Puffin, Lions and Picture Lions.

I interviewed Rosemary about her fascinating career in 2017, you can read the piece here:

tygertale.com/2017/03/28/r...
Rosemary Sandberg – From the Puffin Club to Picture Lions
Last week saw the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential Puffin Club, the children’s book group that brought a generation of readers together with each other and their favourite authors. By coi…
tygertale.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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NEW ESSAY: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ri...
April 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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I'm sure one day this will happen to me.

#BookChatWeekly #booksky #books #bibliophile #library #antiquebooks #ghost #skeleton #supernatural #paranormal
Engraving of a man having a bookcase pushed over onto him by a skeletal figure creeping into the left-hand side of the picture.
April 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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#AmReorganizing #TheLibrary #labyrinth
April 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Book Binding ... OR Torture Device?!

#NewberryLibrary (SC1665)
1/?
April 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Some bindings and clasps are truly impressive. This is certainly the case with this 19th-century copy printed in Louvain (R5A12995). #rarebooks #tomorrowsresearch
April 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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jimstokes.bsky.social
A poetic BlueSky book review, perfectly executed, profoundly evocative - where's our rocket? #booksky
A Storm is Rising, by N Mackenzie. 1958, cover artist unknown, likely lost in the storm
April 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM