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Dr Eleanor Baker

@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social

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📖Writing and teaching on Middle English literature in Oxford 💀BOOK CURSES out now from Bodleian Publishing ✏️Being creatively critical @guildmedmak.bsky.social‬ 🍂Liker of university access and outreach, folk horror, and print making She/her

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12h

You are a -wolf and it's prefixes expert, so that means a lot!

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you very much, that's kind of you to say!

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you Laura❤ I have your salt-in-the-wound print for you but I keep walking out of the house without it!

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you Adam! P.s. a couple of my Foundation Year students came to the fantasy summer school in Oxford and really enjoyed your presentation, which gave me the perfect excuse to boast about having been taught by you.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12h

Oh my goodness that is so embarrassing on my part. I'll have to get on Mongrels!

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 15h

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12h

I love SGJ too! I set 'There There' one one of my reading lists. I think 'The Only Good Indians' is my favourite of his so far

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 16h

Peeling wolves. #printsky #linocut #print

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you dear Kristen! Happy sailing!

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 1d

Printing my wolf linocut in a burgundy ink on cream and grey card. I'm pleased with him, but my red ink is always very watery (and therefore has a tendency to both fill fine lines and print blotchy) so I'm looking forward to printing in plain black tomorrow.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 2d

That was a bit oblique, apologies 😅 a good thing, I love lankum and the refrain of Go Dig makes me feel like the dancing kermit

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 3d

Oh lordy lorrrrr oh lordy deeeee

kermit the frog is dancing in a room in front of a door .

ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in a room in front of a door .

media.tenor.com

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 4d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 3d

This is fantastic, I cannot wait to read it! Huge congratulations!!!!

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 3d

This looks fantastic Georgina, I cannot wait to read it!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 12d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 4d

✨Book Curses✨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.

Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers

Celebrate the spooky season in style - from gothic literature to ghoulish accessories, the Booleian has you sorted!

bodleianshop.co.uk

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Miles!

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5d

Scrappy test printing for visual legibility - completed. My next step is chatter elimination and adding just a bit more hairy detail.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5d

Alex I keep liking all your posts - I hope it doesn't look like I am haunting you. Its because I think all your courses look great and I am trying to find ones that fit in with my term!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 5d

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Megan, you might find some useful suggestions in the @guildmedmak.bsky.social suggested reading page (which we hope to continue to populate!)
www.guildmedmak.com/suggested-re...

www.guildmedmak.com

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 5d

Dr Miranda Melcher's @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast has reached its 1,000th episode, and she very kindly selected her interview with me about my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk✨Book Curses✨ as one of her 28 recommendations!

Miranda Melcher's Recommendations

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 7d

I turned up in an Oxford reel again.
Potentially threatening caption.

Screenshot from an Instagram reel.
I'm stood behind ornate gates wearing a suit, bowler hat and resting on an umbrella, my moustache is visible.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! Decorating my twigs is one of my favourite activities.

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