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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jun 11

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...

Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London

Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

www.sal.org.uk

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jun 2

‪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...

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · May 14

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

Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London

Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

www.sal.org.uk

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · May 12

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/

English Short Title Catalogue

datb.cerl.org

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Apr 30

Brill - should be going up on the CILIP jobs board as well shortly.

Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Apr 30

@ciliprarebooks.bsky.social one for your followers? 📚

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Apr 30

📢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! 👇

The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · Apr 6

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Mar 21

Some of our @antiquaries.bsky.social treasures out on display for our special "Illuminated" Open Friday today ✨💖🌟 Open until 4pm!

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Mar 20

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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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Mar 19

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...

A page from the Lindsey Psalter showing an illuminated B initial with small scenes of musicians around it.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

Illuminated: Open Friday at the Society - Society of Antiquaries of London

Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Feb 14

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

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 24

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

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 23

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

A highly-decorated gold-tooled binding, in brown calf, of a printed book from 1580.

The last leaf of an open book from 1580; the left is printed, with the inscription "Lucy Strong her booke" written on either side of the printer's mark (woodcut). The right side, a blank endpaper, has five coloured drawings of fruits (pears, blackberries, plums or damsons) with leaves attached to the stems.

The title-page of "The treasurie of the French tong: teaching the waye to varie all sortes of verbes" by Claudius Hollyband, printed in London in 1580. The endpaper on the left side has a coloured drawing of what looks like a broom (ie. twigs bundled at one end) pointing upwards.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 17

How long did it take you part time, dare I ask?

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 17

A lot of hard work and dedication, I imagine! 👏 I've seen two really interesting libray-related LAHP PhDs come up recently but I absolutely couldn't hack it working full time. Maybe when I retire 😂

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jan 17

The #Avebury #henge complex is one of the most impressive in Britain. #Stukeley first visited the site in 1719, his interest aroused by reading John Aubrey’s suggestion that the Ancient Britons were responsible for building the stone circles.

An aerial view of the round plot of Avebury and its henge.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 17

Many congrats Dr Sims! 🥂 (I'm in awe of anyone who does a PhD around their job!)

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 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/

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 14

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!

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · Jan 14

A few nice 17th-century bindings on printed books one of my volunteers is working on, adding Albert Way FSA's ownership provenance to our library catalogue. Always a good surprise to find a contemporary binding (especially armorial) when pulling a rather dismal burgundy box off the shelf!

Three large late-16th/17th century printed books, bound in brown leather. Two have armorial stamps of their 17th-century owners; one is in gold.