Marja Kingma
@marjakingma.bsky.social
EU-Dutch librarian living in UK. Art, animals (bears, cats, ferrets, owls) books, crafts, nature, politics, sports. Opinions my own. 🇪🇺🌳🇳🇱 🇬🇧🇺🇦
Congratulations Sarina!
Idris Elba knighted, Sarina Wiegman made honorary dame in New Year Honours 2026. Lionesses, Torvill & Dean also recognized. Other honorees include Meera Syal, Warwick Davis, and Richard Osman. #NewYearHonours #News
New Year Honours 2026: Idris Elba knighted as Sarina Wiegman and Lionesses recognised
Idris Elba knighted, Sarina Wiegman made honorary dame in New Year Honours 2026. Lionesses, Torvill ...
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December 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Congratulations Sarina!
Happy 250th Birthday #JaneAusten !! Love my beautiful Folio Society edition.
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Happy 250th Birthday #JaneAusten !! Love my beautiful Folio Society edition.
I’m almost sorry I already have a copy! It is such a beautiful book with lovely little details. 🦊
🦊 Why not buy my book, Reynard the Fox, for Christmas – the perfect stocking filler! Marina Warner described it as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling.Reynar" To buy a signed and gift-wrapped book, order directly from me! DM to purchase or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m almost sorry I already have a copy! It is such a beautiful book with lovely little details. 🦊
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Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, the Green Party's message couldn't be clearer: cut bills, tax billionaires.
We live in a massively unequal society - it's time to change that. Tax wealth fairly, reduce the strain on ordinary families, and invest in public services.
We live in a massively unequal society - it's time to change that. Tax wealth fairly, reduce the strain on ordinary families, and invest in public services.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, the Green Party's message couldn't be clearer: cut bills, tax billionaires.
We live in a massively unequal society - it's time to change that. Tax wealth fairly, reduce the strain on ordinary families, and invest in public services.
We live in a massively unequal society - it's time to change that. Tax wealth fairly, reduce the strain on ordinary families, and invest in public services.
Go on- check it out. Wonderful resources- all of them.
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Go on- check it out. Wonderful resources- all of them.
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Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
An interesting two days lie ahead, with a varied programme on curating collections in libraries, museums, archives during conflict and crises. A good turn out of @britishlibrary colleagues and colleagues from other heritage institutions.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
An interesting two days lie ahead, with a varied programme on curating collections in libraries, museums, archives during conflict and crises. A good turn out of @britishlibrary colleagues and colleagues from other heritage institutions.
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.
If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
I’m so looking forward to today’s event: ‘Connecting histories, connecting heritage’ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.
October 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I’m so looking forward to today’s event: ‘Connecting histories, connecting heritage’ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.
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And early modern women artists are well represented in a 4th exhibition, coming up at the end of October!
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond - www.hydecollection.org
www.hydecollection.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And early modern women artists are well represented in a 4th exhibition, coming up at the end of October!
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
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BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E
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FINAL CALL! ⏰
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB
Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
FINAL CALL! ⏰
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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Best political history lessons in the world. I cannot recommend these guys high enough. Thank you guys for all your hard work.
🚨 Season 8 -The Story of Socialism- premiere now available exclusively for Patreon supporters 🚨 The new season from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social kicks off with the development of socialist ideas after the French Revolution. Public release 24/09
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September 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Best political history lessons in the world. I cannot recommend these guys high enough. Thank you guys for all your hard work.
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
Get yourselves a copy.
"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver
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September 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Get yourselves a copy.
What craftsmanship. Held in National Gallery of Art D.C.
It's World Coconut Day! A fabulous coconut cup with gilt silver mounts, Netherlandish, c. 1540:
September 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What craftsmanship. Held in National Gallery of Art D.C.
Totally agree.
"What a wonderful collection - surprising, smart and rich ... These essays are the product of a unique and admirable mind and I loved them." - Nick Hornby
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September 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Totally agree.
A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker
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August 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker
A painter ahead of his time.
The Laughing Cavalier, Dutch Baroque masterpiece painted in 1624, by Frans Hals, influential portrait artist whose loose brushstrokes & lively spontaneity inspired Manet, Whistler and Van Gogh; died in Haarlem #OTD 1666.
The Wallace Collection London
The Wallace Collection London
August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A painter ahead of his time.
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Immigrant advocate groups in Los Angeles gathered at MacArthur Park calling for a 24-hour community stoppage protesting against continued ICE raids.
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Immigrant advocate groups in Los Angeles gathered at MacArthur Park calling for a 24-hour community stoppage protesting against continued ICE raids.
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
Happy International Cat Day Sybil!
August 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Happy International Cat Day Sybil!
My latest piece for the European Studies Blog inspired by the exhibition Unearthed : the Power of Gardening, last day tomorrow Sunday 10th. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
Tulips: Dutch, Turkish, or Flemish?
This weekend is your last chance to see our exhibition ‘Unearthed: the Power of Gardening’. On our homepage there is an image of someone looking at a display about tulips. Display case on the tulip at...
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August 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
My latest piece for the European Studies Blog inspired by the exhibition Unearthed : the Power of Gardening, last day tomorrow Sunday 10th. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
Colleague Helena Byrne’s blog for the UK Web Archive What to nominate for womens rugby world cup 2025 bit.ly/UKWABlog202508
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
What to nominate for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025
By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives England are the hosts for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025. The group stages will take place in Brighton & Hove, Exeter, Bristol, Northampton, Manchester, York...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Colleague Helena Byrne’s blog for the UK Web Archive What to nominate for womens rugby world cup 2025 bit.ly/UKWABlog202508
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking Fludd made me laugh out loud many times, and impressed me with its sharp observations, as you would expect from Hilary Mantel. A perfect holiday read.
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking Fludd made me laugh out loud many times, and impressed me with its sharp observations, as you would expect from Hilary Mantel. A perfect holiday read.