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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

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The Mary Rose ? The Vasa ? No, I give you the 'Fin de la Guerre' a massive ship built by Antwerp during the city's siege (1584-1585). The ship was essentially a floating castle that could man 1000 musketeers and countless pieces of artillery. It was so heavy it ran aground.

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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it should be illegal and a punishable offense to post an image of art online without citing its shelfmark/accession number

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What I love about this quilt fragment (at the museum of the Rhode Island School of Design) is that it retains the snippets of waste paper, print and ms, the maker used for templates when cutting out their fabric. It's like binders' waste, but outside of books. #BookHistory pals, who studies these?

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I have removed all my uploaded articles from academia.edu.

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I hope Mr Wicherly's last 10 days were super-fun! 💋 Flying Post, Jan. 5, 1716 #earlymodern #18thC

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Extraordinary human moment in the archival record. Poor Mary Swears was brutally murdered by a drunk garrison soldier at her drinking house. Burial record that same day the rector tried to convey the sharp shock of the moment, yet the dignity of record kept him from comment. #EarlyModern #Bermuda

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The so-called Treverermännchen ('little man of the Treveri'), a charming Roman bronze figurine depicting a man wearing a short hooded cloak (cucullus). Gaiters are wrapped around his legs. It's unknown what the figure once held. Found in AugustTreverorum/Trier, dating 3rd c. AD 🏺 #archaeology 📷 me

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#Bookhistory

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So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no

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JOB POSTING: Catalog/metadata librarian Reposting for broader reach. Come work with me! 📜📚

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JOB POSTING: Arabic cataloger/metadata librarian Reposting for broader reach. Come work with me! 📜📚

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Earlier today I was interviewed by Siham El-Maimouni for the German cultural tv programme Westart. I showed the 'Antorffer Wechsel', a #book for calculating currency exchange rates, printed in Nurnberg in 1568. The item will be broadcast (dubbed in German) on WDR, Saturday 7 July, 6:15 pm. 📚💙 📜

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#NewAcq, in a beautiful (modern) paste-paper binding: an atlas of the Southern Low Countries, published in Augsburg in 1758. It could be used as a portable atlas, or cut out and assembled into a large wall map. Antwerp, EHC 910059.

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Your brain lies and they aren't perfect in there, it just glosses over the rough parts. Never expect the version that comes out of your fingers to be the same as the one in your brain. But one that comes out of your fingers can be differently great. Work on it.

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I don't read the news, is the Doge gone, does Venice belong to our beloved Kaiser, Franz Josef

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This training module for academic advising is like being taught how to human by someone new to the species.

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old ads used to be so cool. baffling lie. four kinds of typesetting. ends in a demand

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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

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#OTD in 1342 a devastating fire broke out in #Mechelen, raging for two days. Over 800 houses were lost and some 400 people perished. Ironically, centuries later, the Mechelaars earned the nickname 'Maneblussers' ('moon extinguishers') after mistaking moonlight on the cathedral for another blaze.

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Oh, lords. This hits home.

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Fortunately, there's help. In the forthcoming international bestseller in SAA's Archival Fundamentals series, we espouse techniques of care that include care of the collecting organization

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Today one of the oldest processions in Europa will be moving through the streets of Bruges: the Holy Blood Procession, going strong since 1304.

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This post comes from a very different angle than my recent short thread on medieval miracle collections, but it points to why I insist on emphasising the human aspect of the historical sources, namely that so many people dehumanise the past in various ways.

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I'm looking for suggestions of writing about resilience and brittleness, especially in infrastructure.

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It's been a couple wks since the various reports of Trump's incursions at the LoC. In that time, I've been backing up the OCR text of Chronicling America, just in case I documented my process on my blog. Just sharing in case others want/need to back up Chron Am for their own peace of mind

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#bookhistory

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With my fellow 'Pages of Prayer' project members I am organizing the conference 'Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800', 1-3 July 2026 in Leiden. Send us your abstracts by October 1: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... #medievalsky #earlymodern

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✨𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻: 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗶𝘁 (𝟭𝟰𝟮𝟱-𝟭𝟳𝟵𝟳), Ralph Dekoninck, Violet Soen (red.) 🖋️Een bijzondere blik op vier eeuwen notities van Leuvense studenten en geleerden Meer info 👉 lup.be/book/lessen-... #KULeuven #UCLouvain #600jaarKULeuven

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Colourful little #NewAcq! (Antwerp, EHC 909939) Terence, Comoediae sex (J. Min-Elli edt.). Rotterdam, Leers, 1702 - STCN 224251260

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And he said ‘take, eat; this pretzel is my body.’

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"Wait a second... Wait a second! Oh my god, that's LATIN!" - a kid in the bookshop, reminding us joy can be found anywhere

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The next CERL event is only a month away! I warmly invite you to come to KBR Brussels for Mapping Knowledge: Collaboration of Retrospective National Bibliograhies with research and heritage projects The programme is here: www.cerl.org/services/sem... We aim to publish the papers

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Le réchauffement climatique devrait dépasser 1,5 °C d’ici à 2029, selon l’OMM

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Late Roman historian here. Please stop perpetuating the narrative of a fall of Rome triggering Dark Ages. That’s not what happened at all.

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reading the 1732 parliamentary report on the Cotton library fire, and I know it was a monumental loss to scholarship and tragedy for human knowledge etc etc but this is just objectively funny

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Nothing says 'clearly I'm on the right side of history here' like attacking the Friends for a firm moral stand they're taking. Like whatever you think about their religion, they've been so consistently on the side of human justice throughout their history, it should at least give you pause.

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#earlymodern #marginalia #bookhistory #bees

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Timeline cleanser. A baby #camel was born in Planckendael! Photos (c) Zoo Planckendael / Kris Lamon

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Today I learned that giant chains breathe. Due to the oxidation in rooms with these babies, you can die in about 24 hours in an enclosed space with a ship's giant chain. Put that in your novel.

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