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Anyone have an email address for Tom Furniss, formerly of Strathclyde, now retired?

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Just realised I missed the ScholarLed salon yesterday (I forgot). Really gutted! It was on typesetting, I was looking forward to talking about that ☹️

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📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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Apologies for posting abt politics on here but everyone else is doing it these days

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All true, and to repeat myself from last night, based on the recent local election results voters are abandoning Labour for the Greens and Lib Dems, not Reform @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

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The results show no change in levels of support for the most right-wing parties #uklocalelections

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Anyone saying the recent local election results mean Labour need to shift to the right can’t read basic numbers @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

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But all the votes for Reform came from former Tory voters. The local elections actually showed a rise in support for non-climate-denying parties. All the Labour losses went to Green or (for whatever reason) Lib Dem. This means the govt need to do more abt the climate crisis, not less

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As God Will: carved in 1511, this is the earliest instance of humanist Roman capitals being used for the English language in stone - on the funerary slab to a French Knight of St John, inscribed on the island of Rhodes.

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A reader has coloured in the illustrations in this 16th-C book on plants, published by Plantin; they also decided to colour in the woodcut initials and the printer's mark 🎨 #bookhistory

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Are you a languages researcher keen to get involved in policy engagement but not sure where to start? Join my online talk tomorrow at 12:00 - part of the @ilcs.bsky.social Thinking Strategically Seminar Series - to find out how and where to begin! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/yc298jvw

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A reminder about our exciting new #OpenAccess book series, #HumanitiesFutures. We're looking for proposals showcasing how the #humanities – and the #arts – can help solve complex global challenges. Details on our website: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #AcademicSky #Publishing

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'Making Languages Research Accessible to Policymakers' Barbara Burns talks to Olivia (Liv) Glaze, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoc Researcher, and her mentors Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick, about the project linked to the 'Languages and Policy' report. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04...

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Fantastically grim woodcut from a broadside murder report (1750) (With the perpertrator getting all the attention rather than the woman he murdered, as it always is) #eighteenthcentury

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And here it is! Thanks @lankian.bsky.social www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/... A phenomenal example of the typographer's craft. Now we just need a full-size facsimile of all eight volumes pls

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Does anyone know if the Plantin Polyglot Bible has been digitized anywhere?

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Disappointed to learn yesterday that Project Muse have also fallen for the 'AI' hype. It's an environmentally ruinous scam being pushed by Silicon Valley because they have nothing better to sell us. JHUP should know better.

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How come we can't buy desks like this any more (1512)

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A film that takes place where you're from (Quite possibly the only one)

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🔈 🔈🔈New forthcoming book in our 'New Translations' series! 'Griselda Gambaro, Searching for Light in the Darkness', translated by Claudio Medeiros and Maria Alessandra Woolson. Out in Autumn 2025! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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I must admit I'm not up to speed with the details of the lawsuit, but if it's true that the fine would be an existential matter for the Internet Archive (which sounds likely), it definitely shouldn't go ahead. An invaluable and probably irreplaceable resource chng.it/Y7pc5sG796 @archive.org

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🎉Congratulations to Andrea Capovilla (@ibc-london.bsky.social), winner of our book giveaway! A huge thank you to everyone who shared our post and followed us - we’re thrilled by your support. Do keep connecting with us at @themhra.bsky.social!

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Here's How Higher Ed Can Fight Back-- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

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It feels so pointless and hollow posting (and thinking) about something as small as typography in the face of the insanity in the US and the spineless idiocy in the UK, but I do believe that continuing with the things that matter to you is its own form of resistance, albeit a very privileged one

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Also today I learned there’s an acronym ✨GLAM✨ for ‘galleries, libraries, archives, and museums’

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This quotation from Mill (1867) is absolutely wild in its relevance today (gender myopia aside). Should be engraved above the entrance of every university. Or at least emailed to every politician. From journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/... @britishacademy.bsky.social

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