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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 8h

An opportunity next Tuesday at 5:30pm to enjoy some palaeography without moving from the comfort of your own chair:

laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 1d

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 1d

What’s a break?

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Dr Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social · 1d

Only THREE places remaining!

ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 26d

As part of the 2025 ANZAMEMS conference, a one-day intensive palaeography workshop will be hosted at University of Melbourne on Tuesday 2 December for HDRs and ECRs. See the below flyer:

Flyer for the Intensive Palaeography Workshop to be hosted at University of Melbourne on 2nd December 2025. More details at https://conference.anzamems.org/anzamems-seminar/

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone know what Kzoo attendance numbers are these days, roughly? I know they're down from pre-pandemic/renovations but I'm trying to get a sense of how much and can't find reports to document.

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 2d

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine:London Senate House - Hybrid

The School of Advanced Study (SAS) comprises eight internationally renowned research institutes as well as centres in Digital Humanities and Public Engagement. It has four nationally and internationally recognised specialist research libraries. An important component of the humanities national infrastructure and part of the University of London, this is a really exciting time to join the School of Advanced Study as we are at the start of a new strategic plan.

www.jobs.london.ac.uk

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 2d

The first Book Collecting Seminar of the year is tomorrow! @ies-sas.bsky.social - in person at University of London 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Jewish Military Collection, 1914–1918

ies.sas.ac.uk

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 2d

This week we're back at the IHR on Weds 15 October, where we welcome Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds), speaking on "Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200". All welcome, please sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 2

www.history.ac.uk

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4d

"... they're saying boo-k history". #bookhistory

Still from the Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" (1995). A decrepit Mr. Burns, having just screened his self-aggrandizing original film, sits in the theatre seat turned slightly toward his dorky younger assistant and yes-man, Smithers, who is gesturing nervously with his hands.

The caption reads:
Smithers, are they booing me?
No, they're saying Boo-urns

In this post, the last line goes as follows: "No, they're saying Boo-K History"

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Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...

Medieval Manuscripts at WashU - WashU Libraries

Tens of thousands of medieval manuscripts and documents have made their way from Europe to collections across North America. The Peripheral Manuscripts Project (2020-present) seeks to advance the stud...

library.washu.edu

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 7d

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

#History 🗃️

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 7d

The response to this nonsense needs to be: prove it. Show me a degree that you think isn’t providing students with value for money. Education has lots of benefits, and these can’t be and aren’t just measured in salaries.

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 7d

What Badenoch doesn't understand is that many so called rip off degrees are proudly displayed on the mantelpieces of parents and grandparents who were denied the opportunity to enjoy HE.
It's known as aspiration.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 7d

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7d

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 9d

Sometimes bibliography looks like this, and by extension, rare book cataloging. 4 OCLC records, 3 secondary sources, flashlight for watermarks, etc: all to determine that our copy of “Cryes of London” is from 1689, from the fifth edition, first impression: 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks

A messy desk strewn with books and notes, with a rare book in a cradle in the center.

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 9d

This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 8d

Should anyone find themselves in central London on Weds 19 November, consider yourself invited to a book launch! @earliermiddleages.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

www.history.ac.uk

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 8d

Love the fact that Dunstan’s Classbook is the header

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 8d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 8d

Link doesn’t seem to work:

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 8d

Read. Read widely, randomly, for fun. Be led by your curiosity. Read fiction. Recommend your favourite books to your loved ones. Re-read the books from your childhood. Books are a uniquely portable kind of magic. Carry a book or three with you wherever you go. Never. Stop. Reading.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 12d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 9d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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