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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.

Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 3d

If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 10d

I’m so looking forward to today’s event: ‘Connecting histories, connecting heritage’ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 11d

And early modern women artists are well represented in a 4th exhibition, coming up at the end of October!

A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...

A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond - www.hydecollection.org

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Reuters @reuters.com · 11d

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 15d

London Liverpool Street to Harwich International to take the ferry to NL.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 19d

FINAL CALL! ⏰

One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 24d

Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB

Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 24d

Best political history lessons in the world. I cannot recommend these guys high enough. Thank you guys for all your hard work.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 Season 8 -The Story of Socialism- premiere now available exclusively for Patreon supporters 🚨 The new season from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social kicks off with the development of socialist ideas after the French Revolution. Public release 24/09
www.patreon.com/originstorypod

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Sep 11

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Sep 5

Get yourselves a copy.

Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver

stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sorry Alex, missed your comment. Medusa was outstanding. 👍🏼

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Sep 5

And how about Farage’s arrangements to use his company to be able to pay corporation tax rather than income tax? It is all legal, and he is not in government but it stinks.

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ed Davey did. What I cannot imagine is how people / media seem to be comfortable with the idea that she would have used her son’s situation as a way to deliberately avoid tax. That would be vile and she doesn’t come across to me as vile. It must have been an honest mistake. I am gutted she is gone.

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Sep 3

What craftsmanship. Held in National Gallery of Art D.C.

Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's World Coconut Day! A fabulous coconut cup with gilt silver mounts, Netherlandish, c. 1540:

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Sep 3

Totally agree.

Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · Sep 3

"What a wonderful collection - surprising, smart and rich ... These essays are the product of a unique and admirable mind and I loved them." - Nick Hornby

stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 27

A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 26

A painter ahead of his time.

Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Laughing Cavalier, Dutch Baroque masterpiece painted in 1624, by Frans Hals, influential portrait artist whose loose brushstrokes & lively spontaneity inspired Manet, Whistler and Van Gogh; died in Haarlem #OTD 1666.
The Wallace Collection London

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 26

Subscribed- looking forward to the first episode. 🏛️

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 13

Môgge- eerst koffie!

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 13

Immigrant advocate groups in Los Angeles gathered at MacArthur Park calling for a 24-hour community stoppage protesting against continued ICE raids.

#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you Alex for yet another wonderful episode of Podyssey. I could listen to it all day.

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy International Cat Day Sybil!

Tortoise shell cat lying on a large cushion.

Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 9

My latest piece for the European Studies Blog inspired by the exhibition Unearthed : the Power of Gardening, last day tomorrow Sunday 10th. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...

Tulips: Dutch, Turkish, or Flemish?

This weekend is your last chance to see our exhibition ‘Unearthed: the Power of Gardening’. On our homepage there is an image of someone looking at a display about tulips. Display case on the tulip at...

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Aug 5

Colleague Helena Byrne’s blog for the UK Web Archive What to nominate for womens rugby world cup 2025 bit.ly/UKWABlog202508
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.

What to nominate for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025

By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives England are the hosts for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025. The group stages will take place in Brighton & Hove, Exeter, Bristol, Northampton, Manchester, York...

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Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · Jul 29

#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking Fludd made me laugh out loud many times, and impressed me with its sharp observations, as you would expect from Hilary Mantel. A perfect holiday read.

Fludd, a book by Hilary Mantel, next to a mug with black coffee, set on a wooden dining table.