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📢 Clear your calendars! 🗓 On June 16th I'm hosting a day of talks on the Irish manuscripts in St Gall! The stellar line-up includes special guests from the Stiftsbibliothek. Tickets are free! Reserve here 👉 stgallmanuscripts.eventbrite.ie @historytcd.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #medievalsky

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A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

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Do come along on May 28th to hear all about Francis Fry, his bibles, and a little bit about his chocolate...which you might even get to try🍫 The fruits of my Munby Fellowship research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social

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The latest offering from @howtobooks.bsky.social — howtobook.hypotheses.org/3784

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A 75% staff cut proposed at the Archives and Special Collections at Bangor University eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Toadskin onlays. That’s a new one on me!

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Alarm set for 5am, boots laced, Harry Potter fans elbowed out of the way, and now mooching up Glenfinnan, heading for the two Munros up here. This is the way to pass a Tuesday…

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oh, Edinburgh! Please go and beam very enthusiastically at Alex Walsham when she's giving the Gifford lectures in May! She's talking about Motion & Emotion in #EarlyModern Christianity, and is bound to be brilliant. Blurb and booking here: cahss.ed.ac.uk/20242025-pro... #SkyStorians #EarlyModern

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Prayer books in the Middle Ages & early modern period were used by people over generations. Personal objects, they are commonly the site where ppl left notes about important events, as here, in a late 15th- or early 16thC hand which wrote in the November calendar page , "My Moder departed to God."

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Next week at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (and on zoom), speaking on a Scottish #Gaelic poet and writer active in the #Caribbean in the early 1800s, but mostly about three generations of #Bajan women in his family, from the 18th to the 20th century!

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Thanks to the team from @tcddublin.bsky.social for training this new #English model based on #Scottish port books from the 17th century 👇 www.transkribus.org/model/scotti...

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📚 Final weeks to see "Tusitala: Pacific perspectives on Robert Louis Stevenson" This exhibition explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s life as a writer, traveller, and storyteller from Edinburgh to Samoa. 🎟️ Free entry 📆 Closes 10 May 📍 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

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We launched our catalogue today - watch it here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/whats-on/

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Congratulations to @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and Dr Andoni Cossio for winning Best Article at the @tolkiensociety.org 2025 Awards! Access their article below⬇️

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I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇 www.nts.org.uk/collections/...

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Look 🔍 at this 🔍 tiny #NewAcq! "Mercury only makes our countenance | now sullen 😠 then happy 😀 again." An #EarlyModern fortune cookie? Perhaps part of a game? How do I catalogue this? How do I label it? How do we keep this from getting lost? 🤷‍♂️ 📚💙 📜 #BookHistory #PrintedEphemera

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Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.

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Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #govan #architecture #sculpture #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography

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Sgor Gaoith anns a’ Mhonadh Ruadh an diugh. Bha i caran gaothach (surprise!) air a’mhullach ach dìreach àlainn fad-latha

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What better way to spend an afternoon than cataloguing this pretty little embroidered psalm book. A student has been working on this category of book for their placement recently but this one had remained uncatalogued. Until now: eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b4235...

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Weekly collection box for the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, issued in 1839, with the original blocks used to print them. Part of the Boston Public Library’s vast collection of materials related to antislavery movements in the 19th century United States.

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Amazing study: Biocodicological analysis of books from Clairvaux Abbey reveals that 12th-13th c. Cistercians in France (and England and Belgium) preferred to bind their books in Arctic sealskin, likely obtained through Norse traders. Seal of approval, no notes.

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Lunch spot. Creag Mèagaidh - air a’ mhullach

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Skiving off with some annual leave for another hill. This is from the summit of Carn Liath above Loch Laggan. What a stunning day

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Getting up at 5am on a Saturday to drive for 3 hours to then walk up a hill for a long time makes little sense to many people. But in my defence… Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh above Loch Lochy

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It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!

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Join us on Thursday? The weather's going to be lovely, and I'll be doing short intro tours to plants used in our medical recipe book collection.

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Hello all! Nice to finally join you. I'm Lindsay: a literary food historian, knowledge exchange professional, and nature nerd. I'll very likely be posting about the nineteenth century, Scottish food, or fun birds and mushrooms I've seen. Oh, and tins, of course.

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Job: Lecturer in Book & Archival Materials Conservation www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ872/l...

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Solidarity with library workers, users and respecters-of across the United States! 🖤 knowledge is power and knows no borders! Our communities are international! #againstfascism #againstantiknowledge

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glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/03/24/n... @ucuglasgow.bsky.social statement on the university's recent heavy -handed approach to student protest.

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Well this binding design is new to me! A 17th (or possibly 18th) century leopard decoration binding. Covering a 1530 copy of “Liber de Peste” published in Alcalá eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1589... Or is it a binding with pox?

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The most Gothic of Argyll’s Renaissance houses - Caisteal Chàrn Asaraidh - the home of Seon Carswell, the man behind the first book printed in Irish or Gaelic, in 1567.

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Hello history of print folk! Is there something called a 'Faux printer' (or does 'Faux' belong to the place name before?) #EarlyModern 🗃️

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The Royal College of Physicians museum/archive/heritage library (ie my gaff) has made it over here. Please show them a big Bluesky welcome, folks!

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