Anke Timmermann
@elixirlibri.bsky.social
Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
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Mind has been officially blown by seeing Saturn and its moon Titan through the Mills Observatory Victorian 10" Cooke telescope. WOW! Every time I've visited before, the clouds have come too, but not today! This old technology still works perfectly with a clockwork tracking mechanism. Stunning 🥳👌 🔭
October 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Mind has been officially blown by seeing Saturn and its moon Titan through the Mills Observatory Victorian 10" Cooke telescope. WOW! Every time I've visited before, the clouds have come too, but not today! This old technology still works perfectly with a clockwork tracking mechanism. Stunning 🥳👌 🔭
Autumn visit to Woolsthorpe Manor, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. In my previous life as a scholar of the history of alchemy, I would not have imagined that Newton’s school and the library he used as a child would be a 5 minutes’ walk from my office one day.
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Autumn visit to Woolsthorpe Manor, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. In my previous life as a scholar of the history of alchemy, I would not have imagined that Newton’s school and the library he used as a child would be a 5 minutes’ walk from my office one day.
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Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
October 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
How wonderful is this rare proof of a 'lost' Kelmscott?
William Morris' wood-engravings cut from Edward Burne-Jones's drawings, for Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise' - an abandoned edition - printed in 1974 by the Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill editions, as 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche'.
William Morris' wood-engravings cut from Edward Burne-Jones's drawings, for Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise' - an abandoned edition - printed in 1974 by the Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill editions, as 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche'.
October 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
How wonderful is this rare proof of a 'lost' Kelmscott?
William Morris' wood-engravings cut from Edward Burne-Jones's drawings, for Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise' - an abandoned edition - printed in 1974 by the Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill editions, as 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche'.
William Morris' wood-engravings cut from Edward Burne-Jones's drawings, for Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise' - an abandoned edition - printed in 1974 by the Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill editions, as 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche'.
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Our Conservation team enjoyed hosting a visit from Moriki Papers last week! We shared how we use Japanese paper in our studio and learned about the art of Japanese papermaking.
#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Our Conservation team enjoyed hosting a visit from Moriki Papers last week! We shared how we use Japanese paper in our studio and learned about the art of Japanese papermaking.
#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
Sad news. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Sad news. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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The RSL today marks the 200th anniversary of its incorporation with a Royal Charter ✒️
In celebration, Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social has digitised a selection of archive materials which they are making public today for the first time: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
In celebration, Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social has digitised a selection of archive materials which they are making public today for the first time: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The RSL today marks the 200th anniversary of its incorporation with a Royal Charter ✒️
In celebration, Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social has digitised a selection of archive materials which they are making public today for the first time: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
In celebration, Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social has digitised a selection of archive materials which they are making public today for the first time: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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🎺 The 2025 Participatory Research Projects we funded via @ukri.org #ResearchEngland have come to a close.
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies
Read the blog ⤵️
#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies
Read the blog ⤵️
#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...
Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies - Collections Connections Communities
Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies Dr Zahra Kazani, Research and Outreach Associate - Islamic art and material culture Centre of Islamic Studies This participatory researc...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🎺 The 2025 Participatory Research Projects we funded via @ukri.org #ResearchEngland have come to a close.
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies
Read the blog ⤵️
#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies
Read the blog ⤵️
#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...
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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
September 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
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What a wonderful achievement! #archives
We decided to do an open call for lockdown diaries... we ended up with 10,000 documents. Safe to say cataloguing them all was definitely a lockdown and beyond project!
That being said, many of them are now available as part of an open-access resource! database.massobs.org.uk/projects_dat...
That being said, many of them are now available as part of an open-access resource! database.massobs.org.uk/projects_dat...
Mass Observation Mass-Observing COVID-19 Database
database.massobs.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What a wonderful achievement! #archives
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How extraordinary to have the first vial of the vaccine.
Interesting, too, that the collecting project began in early March 2020, before the lockdown began. A swift and far-sighted response. Thank you!
Interesting, too, that the collecting project began in early March 2020, before the lockdown began. A swift and far-sighted response. Thank you!
September 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How extraordinary to have the first vial of the vaccine.
Interesting, too, that the collecting project began in early March 2020, before the lockdown began. A swift and far-sighted response. Thank you!
Interesting, too, that the collecting project began in early March 2020, before the lockdown began. A swift and far-sighted response. Thank you!
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It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘
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Booker Prize Bindings 2025
Designer Bookbinders UK
The six Fellows this year are: Glenn Bartley, Stuart Brockman, Hannah Brown, Sue Doggett, Angela James and Tom McEwan. (1)
Image: 2024 bindings
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Designer Bookbinders UK
The six Fellows this year are: Glenn Bartley, Stuart Brockman, Hannah Brown, Sue Doggett, Angela James and Tom McEwan. (1)
Image: 2024 bindings
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September 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Booker Prize Bindings 2025
Designer Bookbinders UK
The six Fellows this year are: Glenn Bartley, Stuart Brockman, Hannah Brown, Sue Doggett, Angela James and Tom McEwan. (1)
Image: 2024 bindings
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Designer Bookbinders UK
The six Fellows this year are: Glenn Bartley, Stuart Brockman, Hannah Brown, Sue Doggett, Angela James and Tom McEwan. (1)
Image: 2024 bindings
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
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Liebe Follower, ich bin auf der Suche nach antiquarischen Büchern des (eher entlegenen) Autors Maximilian Josef von Oer aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Die einschlägigen Seiten im Netz habe ich schon abgesucht. Wer weiß etwas? Bitte gern teilen.
September 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Liebe Follower, ich bin auf der Suche nach antiquarischen Büchern des (eher entlegenen) Autors Maximilian Josef von Oer aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Die einschlägigen Seiten im Netz habe ich schon abgesucht. Wer weiß etwas? Bitte gern teilen.
For International Dog Day: T.E. Lawrence with dogs.
From Clare Sydney Smith's 'The Golden Reign. The Story of my Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia"' (1949).
From Clare Sydney Smith's 'The Golden Reign. The Story of my Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia"' (1949).
August 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For International Dog Day: T.E. Lawrence with dogs.
From Clare Sydney Smith's 'The Golden Reign. The Story of my Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia"' (1949).
From Clare Sydney Smith's 'The Golden Reign. The Story of my Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia"' (1949).
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I found a cool Shakespeare document, but why was it missing in the first place? www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/s... [1/4]
Shakespeare family will found by historian - The National Archives
Red sealing wax seal and string on 1642 parchment will of Thomas Nash
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
August 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I found a cool Shakespeare document, but why was it missing in the first place? www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/s... [1/4]
Just listened to this, then visited @amybateman.bsky.social’s online gallery of Forty Farms pictures - fantastic!! Moving, captivating & utterly illuminating.
New Absolute Units is here!
This time, we speak with award-winning photographer and sheep farmer @amybateman.bsky.social about Forty Farms – her book and touring exhibition (currently at The MERL!) documenting forty farms across Cumbria and the Lake District.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
This time, we speak with award-winning photographer and sheep farmer @amybateman.bsky.social about Forty Farms – her book and touring exhibition (currently at The MERL!) documenting forty farms across Cumbria and the Lake District.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
August 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just listened to this, then visited @amybateman.bsky.social’s online gallery of Forty Farms pictures - fantastic!! Moving, captivating & utterly illuminating.
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New exhibition: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
It has lots of books in it. Lots of books that I like and have lots of say about.
It has lots of books in it. Lots of books that I like and have lots of say about.
Upcoming exhibition : a body of knowledge | RCP Museum
history.rcp.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New exhibition: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
It has lots of books in it. Lots of books that I like and have lots of say about.
It has lots of books in it. Lots of books that I like and have lots of say about.
'Later he settled on a job in the British Library cataloguing rare books for 23 years. … Something about the rare manuscripts appealed to him … "I had history in my hands, it was a fantastic job," says George.'
Soho George. Artist. What a story! www.mylondon.news/news/nostalg...
Soho George. Artist. What a story! www.mylondon.news/news/nostalg...
1960s London legend 'Soho George', 80, who still struts around the West End
You'll see him wearing stunning suits around Soho, but there's much more to the man than meets the eye
www.mylondon.news
August 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
'Later he settled on a job in the British Library cataloguing rare books for 23 years. … Something about the rare manuscripts appealed to him … "I had history in my hands, it was a fantastic job," says George.'
Soho George. Artist. What a story! www.mylondon.news/news/nostalg...
Soho George. Artist. What a story! www.mylondon.news/news/nostalg...
Sir Joseph Banks was so convinced of this cookbook's merit that he sent his own chef, Henry Osborne, to assist - so William Kitchiner's "The Cook's Oracle" (here the 1822 edition) has 10 recipes of puddings eaten by Banks!
More information: www.typeandforme.com/index.php/20...
Happy Tuesday!
More information: www.typeandforme.com/index.php/20...
Happy Tuesday!
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Sir Joseph Banks was so convinced of this cookbook's merit that he sent his own chef, Henry Osborne, to assist - so William Kitchiner's "The Cook's Oracle" (here the 1822 edition) has 10 recipes of puddings eaten by Banks!
More information: www.typeandforme.com/index.php/20...
Happy Tuesday!
More information: www.typeandforme.com/index.php/20...
Happy Tuesday!
Snapshot from above my desk.
Happy Saturday!
Happy Saturday!
August 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Snapshot from above my desk.
Happy Saturday!
Happy Saturday!
Summer's essence, captured as only the private press can.
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A limited edition print tipped into Matrix 8 - just one of the very cool (?hot) things I get to work on.
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A limited edition print tipped into Matrix 8 - just one of the very cool (?hot) things I get to work on.
August 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Summer's essence, captured as only the private press can.
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A limited edition print tipped into Matrix 8 - just one of the very cool (?hot) things I get to work on.
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A limited edition print tipped into Matrix 8 - just one of the very cool (?hot) things I get to work on.