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Kathleen E. Kennedy

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manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/ .. more

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 55m

Awesome ty for the rec!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3h

Hey I don't expect any of you are but if anyone is doing one of the gallery tours I'm running this weekend sing out, eh? It'd be great to know a few of the people I'll be meeting in advance!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 11h

Same and I think this is common enough it was even a quip in a BBC show from the oughts

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 13h

dollars to donuts this guy's also a ham on a repeater that runs ASCII art every Thursday night...

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 13h

yeah : (

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 13h

hey all you medieval guild fans, you will want to check out @latemedievalist.bsky.social new book- chock full of archival work about a really unique, far-ranging guild in medieval England (and beyond!)

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14h

We've two new titles forthcoming in our New Historical Perspectives book series:

> Gareth Roddy's 'Atlantic Isles' is published on 30 October bit.ly/3WFhpRg
> Rachael Harkes's 'Forging Fraternity' is available from 6 November bit.ly/4ogSm2H

Full details from @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Cover images for the two forthocming titles in the New Historical Perspectives book series:

'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 1d

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.

Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory

www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

Facsimile – Penn Press

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...

www.pennpress.org

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

hbd!!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

cool ty!

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

Browse a Collection of Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns

My costume design professor at Northwestern University, Virgil Johnson, delighted students with his formula for period clothing. I have forgotten some of the mathematic and semantic particulars—does d...

www.openculture.com

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 1d

Today's manuscript contains hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works. It contains prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, with some marginal notes. Germany, late 15th c. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1604) #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/3Xd1Voy

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

hah yeah mine didn't either when I first told him. He went out to do his own research and determined to his own satisfaction that I wasn't being scammed! (at least not in the way he thought at any rate lol/sigh)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

as a 1st gen...yeah. We're like the uncool third-culture kids I guess heh, not fitting anywhere anymore, but not in any way cool at all.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering the same again the other day

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

I fear I'm back in the states for good now but I wish I had known about that website when I was living over there!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

attn @hagenilda.bsky.social -- I know you will have some great examples!

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

for real, John Lewis should not be the only place to get yardage online!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, those WERE Minnesota Fabrics stores, and they died before Joann's, sadly. (and anything super tiny isn't transit-accessible out there so etc)

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

unreal

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

yeah they're not my first choice for a lot of reasons already so I'll bear that in mind (unbelievable choice for them really, right??)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

ooh this looks interesting- thanks for the rec!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

US fiber folks: where are we getting our yardage these days, now that Joann (RIP) and Minnesota Fabrics are no more? Spoonflower's fine for kicky prints (heartheart) but what about just plain cotton, linen, etc?

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 1d

"Reading Lessons" was a reprint from this amazing collection on the many forms of reading, which is open access -- download it for free at the link. How We Read, edited by Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari

punctumbooks.com/titles/how-w...

How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents deployed tear gas in Albany Park Sunday as residents chased off agents who were trying to detain a neighbor. blockclubchi.co/4h6gHG2

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d

ok scrapple Gritty was simply meant to be. that kid's a winner regardless of what the director decides!

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 1d

Ethel Stein: Master of the Loom
October 17 - November 17, 2025

Essay by Lucy Commoner, Conservator Emerita, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
www.saparcontemporary.com/exhibitions#...