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DCU Library @dculibrary.bsky.social · 8h

We were delighted to welcome students from DCU's MA in History and Programme Chair Dr. Marnie Hay last week to learn about our special collections and archives available for research!
You can read more about these resources on our website: tinyurl.com/2xbtn8zh
@dublincityuni.bsky.social
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Students being shown some examples of early printed books at our reading room in Glasnevin

Students being shown examples of early printed maps, atlases, and books at our reading room in Glasnevin

Students being introduced to the Sean Lester Collection at our reading room in Glasnevin

History MA students being shown some ephemera, maps, and archival resources at our reading room in Glasnevin

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 10h

A whopper of a museum job! 📜

Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social · 11h

🔔🔔JOB KLAXON🔔🔔🔔
Come and join the team at NMS - we're looking for a new Head of Collections Services. It's a brilliant role and a great team.

Details
Salary - £70.692-80,152
Hours - FT 35 Hours per week
Deadline - Nov 9th, 2025

careers.nms.ac.uk/job/780754

Head of Collections Services

careers.nms.ac.uk

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University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 1d

This bound volume of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and volume I of The Ghost Seer by Friedrich Schiller is exactly what we need at this time of year! These illustrations depict iconic moments from the stories, though Schiller's tale remains unfinished…

Spine of the book which reads Novels and Romances: Frankenstein, Ghost Seer

Frankenstein illustration of page 37 “the day of my departure at length arrived”

The Ghost-Seer illustration “he stretched his hand towards a new coffin. Suddenly the lid made a rattling noise and fell to the ground. The Greek lady instantly appeared.

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 7d

And what a great project this is!
www.musicheritageplace.uk/overview

About 5 — Music, Heritage, Place

www.musicheritageplace.uk

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 7d

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.

Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU

Deadline 16 Jan.

The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU

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Santa Fe Public Library @sfnmpl.bsky.social · 9d

#BannedBooksWeek: Knitting without Prejudice Workshop + Listening

#SouthsideLibrary
Wed Oct 8
2–5pm

Please join Santa Fe Art Institute’s artist-in-residence Vagner Mendonça Whitehead for a 3-hr workshop that combines #LoomKnitting while listening to a #BBC performance of 1984.

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 10d

At the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936, at least 100,000 people, including Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, Communists and Labour Party members prevented a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from passing through the East End...

Pamphlet - They did not pass : 300,000 workers say no to Mosley. A souvenir of the East London workers' victory over fascism, produced by the Independent Labour Party. Wiener Holocaust Library collections.

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 10d

He designed many a fine building…

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 11d

“Exploratory rather than explanatory” - a great online exhibition, with digital images, of Accent, a journal edited and published by students of Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Arts University), 1958-1964

www.leeds-art.ac.uk/whats-happen...

Leeds Arts University Library online exhibition | Accent accentuates ideas. | Leeds Arts University

"Accent accentuates ideas" was the opening line in issue one of Accent, a journal edited and published by the students of Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Arts University) between 1958 and 1964.

www.leeds-art.ac.uk

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · 13d

Our full conference schedule is now available to view on our website! Check it out here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

And if you'd like to register to join us virtually, registrations for virtual attendance are now open via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...

MEMRN Winter Conference 2025

MEMRN Winter Conference 2025 The MEMRN Committee are delighted to announce the return of the Winter Conference after the huge success of last year’s inaugural in-person event in Norwich. The …

memrnchase.wordpress.com

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 14d

Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records...

We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 14d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Are there people writing online diaries today, about their daily experiences? Or has Instsgram, X etc scooped up this material? I'm looking to find compelling online diarists -- suggestions gratefully received.

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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 14d

What happens when a historian gets curious in the archive? Well, records like this Uni of Melb Women's Admission documents (1869-1887) come into view.

This collection includes correspondence and documents regarding admissions and matriculation policy and lists of women attendees and graduates.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 18d

"Herald of a Restless World is the best introduction I know of to Bergson’s life and thought, in either English or French. It is also the most delightful book I’ve read about him, written with clarity, joy, humor, and narrative drive" 💅💅💅

Alex Lefebvre @lefebvrealex.bsky.social · 18d

In case you missed it, my review of @emilyherring.bsky.social's terrific bio of Henri Bergson is #1 at the Los Angeles Review of Books right now.

It’s my love letter to the GOAT of philosophy—take a seat and have a chat with him here 👇

lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...

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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 18d

Whilst looking through documents for our Crime and Punishment course- which starts on Thursday- we came across these lovely sketches in the petty sessions minute book. We think the minute taker must have been bored.

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Bodleian Humanities Library @bodhumslib.bsky.social · 18d

Our team has been hard at work setting up the library, putting the books in place, connecting the PCs, and arranging our Mr Tolkien bust!

We won't share any pictures yet. You'll have to wait for the grand opening for that!

We're looking forward to welcoming you all on Monday! 🤩✨🥁 #HumsLibraryMove

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 18d

‘Amateur tyrants had forced their subjects to act on command; Number One had taught them to think on command.’

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Are you a #school #teacher introducing students to #Chaucer? Come along to this amazing #free #event on Saturday 4 October, to discover resources & share expertise. From tackling the #medieval language to creative methods. I'll be there! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please share! Booking info 👇

Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today

ies.sas.ac.uk

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 21d

Some here:

digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/?q=Ca...

Digital Bodleian | Search

digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 21d

I’m sure it would - examples taken from Bodleian manuscripts.

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 21d

Mentioned here:

lib guides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/medieval-sc/unpublished-resources

Oxford LibGuides: Manuscripts: Papyri, Medieval and Renaissance: Unpublished resources

libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 21d

Do you know of Miss Callard's watercolours @bodleian.ox.ac.uk?

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 21d

There's a shady character on Queen Street.

Twice in the year, at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the dawn light shines right along Ingram Street, turning the Iron Duke, his steed, Copenhagen, and even his traffic cone hat, into a shadowy work of art.

Picture: u/Hoyerman68

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 22d

Reading looking striking this morning.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 23d

Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.

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