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This year's Moth Nature Writing Prize is now OPEN! And we're delighted to announce that our 2025 judge will be multi-award-winning author and naturalist Mark Cocker @markcocker_author. 1st prize – €1000 + a week at The Moth Retreat in Ireland 2nd prize – €500 3rd prize –€250

Rounding off the day with... • Seán Hewitt •

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Jurors @alban-fischer.bsky.social, Angela Moody, Debbie Berne & Lara Minja will discuss this year's Book, Jacket & Journal Show selections Wed 6/11 at the online #aupresses conference! Register today: https://bit.ly/43qIeeW and visit the online gallery https://bit.ly/2Y5xy2n.

The modern world in old Ladybird books. Eating on trains, 1974. Artist: Frank Humphris

David Sipress

Tile. William De Morgan. c.1888.

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Jan Tschichold, Redrawings of the Penguin logos, 1947 from Pioneers of German Graphic Design, Callisto Publishers GmbH, 2017 #jantschichold #penguinbooks #penguinbookcovers

In 2026 @royalscottishacad.bsky.social, one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! 🎉 We’re taking part in the birthday celebrations by sharing stories, Curations and content on Art UK, keep an eye out for more soon! #RSA200

New Exhibition Celebrating Jane Austen 250th Anniversary at The Morgan www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

#Beverley Railway Station, #Yorkshire A North Eastern Railway Tile Map c.1900 Made byCraven, Dunnill & Co. Ltd, Jackfield, #Shopshire One of only 9 (of 25 produced ) that survive in their original location. #TilesOnTuesday

#TilesOnTuesday #MadeiranTiles in the #MontePalaceTropicalGarden #Funchal #travelphotography #EastCoastKin #WeAreRoamers #travel #Culture #sightseeing

The author Arnold Bennett was born ##OTD 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He was prolific and successful, many of his books set in what he called 'the five towns' of the Potteries. He sits reading in Bethesda Street, Hanley, outside the Potteries Art Gallery and Museum. 1/3

Beach hut with red roof, Rye Harbour. A full-page opener introducing the #Sussex chapter of #ThePerimeterBook Order here 👉 is.gd/P2BW67

Michael and Pedro are in charge today. Be nice to them.

Today is Saint Melangell’s day; the patron saint of hares.

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Happy birthday Amelia Bloomer. The suffragist, editor, & social activist, whose staunch advocacy for healthier women's clothing led to pantaloons being called Bloomers, & who was the first woman to own, operate & edit a newspaper for women, was born today in 1818. #publishing

#macromonday #eastcoastkin #blueskymonday #macro #macrophotography Cornflower blue is my favourite 💙

⏰ It's the last week to vote for your favourite railway artwork 🚂 We're looking for the most-loved UK railway artwork with ‪@railway200.bsky.social‬ Vote for your winner from the top 20 before midnight 1st June 👉 buff.ly/fr6uwY4 #Railway200

Design for a Jacquard Woven Wall Hanging, ca. 1927 by highly influential Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl #WomensArt

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Printmaker Clare Leighton created wood engraving llustrations for a 1931 publication of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights". They were so atmospheric, they were said to have inspired set designs for the 1939 film of the novel starring Laurence Olivier #WomensArt

Five petals on a Forget-me-not. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVfor5 📷 #photography #BlueSkyMonday #MacroMonday

Another rain watercolour drawing. I've always liked doing small but tall pictures. I hope this is still on someone's wall after 25 years. It shows the view down Trinity Lane in Cambridge with part of Gonville and Caius on the right.

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Postbox Saturday Comic old postcard, artist illustrated about blue airmail postboxes #royalmail #post #postbox #postboxsaturday #postcard #oldpostcard

#postboxSaturday Battersea

We’re mourning the death of Lynn Freed. Recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and as well as two PEN/O. Henry Awards, Lynn published many stories and essays in Narrative and each is a gem, marked by her singular voice and spirit.

Fluctuating colours Marbled paper between East and West bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it/mostre/color...

The ABAA is accepting entries for the 2025 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. All entries should be submitted by June 9, 2025. For more information, visit: www.abaa.org/ncbcc/the-na... #RareBooks #BookCollecting #NCBCC

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Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Swiss healer, visionary and outsider artist who published three books and produced many drawings #womensart

Retail units in Stockport's Merseyway shopping centre transformed into Stockroom, a library hub and events space. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS ! the💥new💥 womensart book!! Out June 1st Available to PRE-order at any good bookshop....🧡

Angie Lewin, contemporary UK printmaker #womensart #Summer

Resurrecting an old other place tradition: #FollowFriday! Did you know that @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social, the home of the #FeedingTheElephant blog, is on Bluesky? So are my fellow members of the Feeding the Elephant editorial collective @catherinefte.bsky.social and @emily-elliott.bsky.social.

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Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.

Design for 'Tulip' printed cotton. William Morris. 1875. Image: WMG.

Words for Friday! 🥳 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Follow for more)

Pollen cloud from Pinus coulteri, Big-Cone Pine, in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social today. Tree planted by Mayor of #Cambridge in 2001 as part of the octocentennial celebration of the university. #Trees #Botany

Join us for a free public lecture by @metmuseum.org conservator Mindell Dubansky, on “A Parallel History of Books and Blooks” at 5:30 p.m. ET on 2 June in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 or via Zoom livestream. Details at rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures/. @uvalibrary.bsky.social

Wash jug and basin. Joseph Maria Olbrich (shape) c.1903. Manu: c.1910. Image: Bonhams.

Made it to #cleethorpes and after checking into my hotel my 1st port of call was the #beachhuts. Last saw these in 2002 and was very excited to find their essential #1950s styling still preserved. Love those steep diagonal railings, so #FestivalofBritain