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Librarian, fangirl, crafter, wokerati, she/her. Knitting and spinning and chatting and sewing and reading and generally carrying on. Business librarian in higher ed. Easily distracted. Owns small child and and giant baby, posts indulgently on the subject.
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The Parisian author Christine de Pizan presents a manuscript of her stories and poems to Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, an illustration from the Book of the Queen, c1410, photographed recently in the 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library. #MedievalMonday #MedievalWomen

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Great joke from the 4 year old: "Do you want a disguise?? Marscapony!!! Cheese." It's sort of deconstructed, I guess?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 146 comments

They'll literally do anything except tackle the root causes of a problem, won't they. Consider providing relief from systemic causes of mental health problems like poverty, and providing effective remedies like talking therapies medication carefully prescribed by specialists? Nah.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Balloons on the wires caused this train delay, that's a new one!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone is right, it's absolutely brilliant.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Also, Ancrene Wisse!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

MARGERY!!! It must've been quite the shock when the original work was discovered after the only known extracts from it were very sanitised in a 16th c pamphlet.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Desperately want to read the Paston Letters again now! Also drawing threads between my library school diss (about medieval religious women's literacy skills), the Paston women who mostly dictated to scribes, and new tech we use to dictate today - dictation is literacy!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I really hate doing this, but...If you're a librarian who sees themselves as being for social justice, who is appaled at the rolling back of DEI programs and researcher (and particularly if you're in the UK). This might support you in thinking of ways to help. facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Giant baby and I are *finally* going to the Medieval Women exhibition at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social and I AM SO EXCITED!! So excited I think I might even buy the exhibition book. Margery!! I'm coming love!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Petition to start doing a Gerry Adams on the Orange Monster so I don't have to hear that incredibly annoying voice anymore. Or the gravy tan.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Google maps, there's a, bloody great big fence there. You can't just walk through from that estate. Also, where I want to go is a petrol station, so getting out of the car and walking through the bloody great fence isn't helpful on several levels.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Libraries just want to own books. That’s it. It’s not hard to understand. Publishers needlessly complicate the picture with talk of models and licences and access, but it’s as simple as that. Libraries want to own books that we can lend to our users. 📚 #ebooksos

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Very smol baby slept for over 7 hours last night. T'husband and I just admitted to each other that we've separately been trying to find out if this is OK because older child extremely did not do this and we have no idea what's normal. Seems like it's one extreme to the other!

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Baby woke up. Baby had nappy change. Baby had big feed. Baby threw up everywhere. We changed baby abs washed mummy. More feed. Horrible adorable baby now thinks it's morning 😭😭😭😭

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment