VIEWS project
@viewsproject.bsky.social
Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
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· Nov 19
Endangered Writing Network
To join the Endangered Writing Network and play a role in this important conversation, please scroll down to the contact form further down the page and send us your details. Across the world today,…
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Some engravings and Tifinagh inscriptions from southern Libya
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some engravings and Tifinagh inscriptions from southern Libya
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Reminder: you can WIN a copy of my new book By Hand in my global handwriting contest! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/11/22/g...
Spread the word!
Spread the word!
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder: you can WIN a copy of my new book By Hand in my global handwriting contest! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/11/22/g...
Spread the word!
Spread the word!
An interesting opinion piece on the frankly shocking policy reversal by the Nigerian government with respect to mother tongue education:
tribuneonlineng.com/why-my-engli...
tribuneonlineng.com/why-my-engli...
Why my English speaks Yoruba
“You taught me language, and my profit on it / Is, I know how to curse” (William Shakespeare: ‘The Tempest’). The Nigerian government and the Nigerian Academy of Letters are…
tribuneonlineng.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
An interesting opinion piece on the frankly shocking policy reversal by the Nigerian government with respect to mother tongue education:
tribuneonlineng.com/why-my-engli...
tribuneonlineng.com/why-my-engli...
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The Italian edition of the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is being launched by UTET Libri . Looks great!
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The Italian edition of the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is being launched by UTET Libri . Looks great!
This was excellent! The only work-related thing I've managed so far while Ben's been ill this week. I'm very taken with the idea of a script grammar and the importance of those internal relationships between letter shapes. I don't think my question was relayed but I learned so much. Plus knitting 🙂
It's a busy month: join me on Nov. 18, the UNESCO International Day of #IslamicArt, for an in-depth talk about "Kufi" as defining a self-contained early tradition of Arabic calligraphy.
For Islamic Art Week 2025, I've prepared a brand new, exhaustive (& kickass) presentation that will take us from…
For Islamic Art Week 2025, I've prepared a brand new, exhaustive (& kickass) presentation that will take us from…
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This was excellent! The only work-related thing I've managed so far while Ben's been ill this week. I'm very taken with the idea of a script grammar and the importance of those internal relationships between letter shapes. I don't think my question was relayed but I learned so much. Plus knitting 🙂
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"If you want [the ink to be] yellow add to it powdered yellow arsenic* and stir with your finger" 😱😱😱
Do NOT try this at home 😰
*Orpiment
Do NOT try this at home 😰
*Orpiment
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"If you want [the ink to be] yellow add to it powdered yellow arsenic* and stir with your finger" 😱😱😱
Do NOT try this at home 😰
*Orpiment
Do NOT try this at home 😰
*Orpiment
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Asemic writing
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Asemic writing
A quick reminder that we have a double seminar this afternoon: Daniel Anderson on the alphabet in ancient classical education, and Richard Sproat on phonography in Japanese and European heraldry!
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025
We have three seminars this term, each beginning at 16.30 and ending at approximately 18.00 UK time (please note the change from BST to GMT for the 3rd seminar).
8th Octob...
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A quick reminder that we have a double seminar this afternoon: Daniel Anderson on the alphabet in ancient classical education, and Richard Sproat on phonography in Japanese and European heraldry!
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
On female literacy in ancient Egypt: arce.org/resource/loo...
Looking in the Wrong Places: Rethinking Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt - ARCE
arce.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On female literacy in ancient Egypt: arce.org/resource/loo...
I am loving the layout of Ben's latest abecedarium! 😁 Kind of Ancient North Arabian style, what do you think?
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I am loving the layout of Ben's latest abecedarium! 😁 Kind of Ancient North Arabian style, what do you think?
Today's first Script Keepers meeting featured some very fruitful discussion and updates on ongoing projects - second one coming up at 9.00pm UK time.
www.scriptkeepers.org
www.scriptkeepers.org
Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts
Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.
www.scriptkeepers.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today's first Script Keepers meeting featured some very fruitful discussion and updates on ongoing projects - second one coming up at 9.00pm UK time.
www.scriptkeepers.org
www.scriptkeepers.org
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#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels!
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels!
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
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Looking forward to running a stall all about ancient alphabets at the public Read Between the Lines fair in Oxford next week (Cheney School, Tuesday 11th). Come by to learn all about the history of writing — plus a short play about emojis!
@TheIrisProject @RumbleMuseum
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@TheIrisProject @RumbleMuseum
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Read Between The Lines Brochure
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Looking forward to running a stall all about ancient alphabets at the public Read Between the Lines fair in Oxford next week (Cheney School, Tuesday 11th). Come by to learn all about the history of writing — plus a short play about emojis!
@TheIrisProject @RumbleMuseum
pub.marq.com/40443503-03d...
@TheIrisProject @RumbleMuseum
pub.marq.com/40443503-03d...
I'm reposting this for anyone who missed it on Halloween - an scary short story by Tian Tian, with a rather delicious intersection of Lovecraftian and hieroglyphic geekery 😊
My friends, on this All Hallows' Eve, please remember... be careful what you digitise...
A Halloween tale of terror by Tian Tian.
viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...
#halloween
A Halloween tale of terror by Tian Tian.
viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...
#halloween
Hieroglyph of Lovecraft
A story for All Hallows’ Eve by Tian Tian “But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils, and the sea is full.” This is the very sentence emerged in my head,…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I'm reposting this for anyone who missed it on Halloween - an scary short story by Tian Tian, with a rather delicious intersection of Lovecraftian and hieroglyphic geekery 😊
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Check this out! multilingual.com/tim-brookes-...
Tim Brookes' New Book, By Hand, Explores the Impact of Handwriting on Community and Language Preservation | MultiLingual
Is handwriting about to become a lost art in the United States? Award-winning author Tim Brookes tackles this question in his new book.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Check this out! multilingual.com/tim-brookes-...
Exciting news! A new open access book on erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures, edited by Michele Cammarosano.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures
Across the most diverse societies, the reuse of writing surfaces in contexts such as learning to write, note-taking, literary creation, and bookkeeping has been not only desirable but essential to opt...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Exciting news! A new open access book on erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures, edited by Michele Cammarosano.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Also from Tian Tian on X:
Ever wonder how the Chinese saw Halloween in the past? This is a small article about a Halloween party in 1929 at West Lake Villa. It was called 黑貓節 — the Black Cat Festival — very direct and descriptive. And I love the term 人面瓜, “human-face melon,” for jack-o’-lantern.
Ever wonder how the Chinese saw Halloween in the past? This is a small article about a Halloween party in 1929 at West Lake Villa. It was called 黑貓節 — the Black Cat Festival — very direct and descriptive. And I love the term 人面瓜, “human-face melon,” for jack-o’-lantern.
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Also from Tian Tian on X:
Ever wonder how the Chinese saw Halloween in the past? This is a small article about a Halloween party in 1929 at West Lake Villa. It was called 黑貓節 — the Black Cat Festival — very direct and descriptive. And I love the term 人面瓜, “human-face melon,” for jack-o’-lantern.
Ever wonder how the Chinese saw Halloween in the past? This is a small article about a Halloween party in 1929 at West Lake Villa. It was called 黑貓節 — the Black Cat Festival — very direct and descriptive. And I love the term 人面瓜, “human-face melon,” for jack-o’-lantern.
My friends, on this All Hallows' Eve, please remember... be careful what you digitise...
A Halloween tale of terror by Tian Tian.
viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...
#halloween
A Halloween tale of terror by Tian Tian.
viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...
#halloween
Hieroglyph of Lovecraft
A story for All Hallows’ Eve by Tian Tian “But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils, and the sea is full.” This is the very sentence emerged in my head,…
viewsproject.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My friends, on this All Hallows' Eve, please remember... be careful what you digitise...
A Halloween tale of terror by Tian Tian.
viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...
#halloween
A Halloween tale of terror by Tian Tian.
viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...
#halloween
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Just released a special episode of ALILI, which for the first time is a solo show.
My publishers offered me a chapter of the audiobook of 'Why Q Needs U' to share, and so this episode is Chapter A (from Egypt to Greece) in its entirety. The narrator is me.
pod.link/1703401848/e...
My publishers offered me a chapter of the audiobook of 'Why Q Needs U' to share, and so this episode is Chapter A (from Egypt to Greece) in its entirety. The narrator is me.
pod.link/1703401848/e...
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just released a special episode of ALILI, which for the first time is a solo show.
My publishers offered me a chapter of the audiobook of 'Why Q Needs U' to share, and so this episode is Chapter A (from Egypt to Greece) in its entirety. The narrator is me.
pod.link/1703401848/e...
My publishers offered me a chapter of the audiobook of 'Why Q Needs U' to share, and so this episode is Chapter A (from Egypt to Greece) in its entirety. The narrator is me.
pod.link/1703401848/e...
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It's just two words, but a personal favourite find in a medieval manuscript is this signature of Anne, a princess of Kievan Rus and Queen (Regent) of France.
Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!
Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It's just two words, but a personal favourite find in a medieval manuscript is this signature of Anne, a princess of Kievan Rus and Queen (Regent) of France.
Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!
Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!
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… it's time for another Kickstarter. I'm still hammering out some details, but plan to launch in November. If you have an interest in this area, I'd love it if you signed up to be notified and/or shared the link with someone who would be. Read on for more info…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
Coming soon: Inks & Paints of the Middle East REVISED
A new, updated edition of my groundbreaking handbook of early Islamic art technology, incorporating five more years of research.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
… it's time for another Kickstarter. I'm still hammering out some details, but plan to launch in November. If you have an interest in this area, I'd love it if you signed up to be notified and/or shared the link with someone who would be. Read on for more info…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
Since when do I have a Wikipedia page?! Well thank you to whoever is responsible for that!
(Now I can see why people really wish they could edit their own page 😂 It's mostly quite good, I just wouldn't be able to resist adding more /tweaking, plus a picture obvs)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...
(Now I can see why people really wish they could edit their own page 😂 It's mostly quite good, I just wouldn't be able to resist adding more /tweaking, plus a picture obvs)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...
Philippa M. Steele - Wikipedia
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October 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Since when do I have a Wikipedia page?! Well thank you to whoever is responsible for that!
(Now I can see why people really wish they could edit their own page 😂 It's mostly quite good, I just wouldn't be able to resist adding more /tweaking, plus a picture obvs)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...
(Now I can see why people really wish they could edit their own page 😂 It's mostly quite good, I just wouldn't be able to resist adding more /tweaking, plus a picture obvs)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...
Postdoctoral opportunity for US nationals for a two-year position with the SEI, as part of an NSF-funded project on the politics of digitizing newly-invented writing systems. Deadline actually 18th November.
Full listing here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05167
Full listing here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05167
Postdoctoral Scholar - Script Encoding Initiative - Linguistics Department
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
October 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Postdoctoral opportunity for US nationals for a two-year position with the SEI, as part of an NSF-funded project on the politics of digitizing newly-invented writing systems. Deadline actually 18th November.
Full listing here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05167
Full listing here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05167