There can never be enough photos of Robins. Keep them coming, please!
09.12.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@marjakingma.bsky.social
EU-Dutch librarian living in UK. Art, animals (bears, cats, ferrets, owls) books, crafts, nature, politics, sports. Opinions my own. ๐ช๐บ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ
There can never be enough photos of Robins. Keep them coming, please!
09.12.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you, Alex, that would be lovely.
Secret Maps is open:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fridayโฏ 09.30โ โโ 18.00
Tuesday โฏ09.30 โโโ 20.00
My email address is marja.kingma@bl.uk. Let me know when is good for you.
Yes, I do. I am curator for Dutch Language Collections.
28.11.2025 17:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I had another look at the mirror today and it is not shiny, but dull. The photo caught the reflection of the lights in the space. You best come the BL and see for yourself. ๐
27.11.2025 22:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Iโm almost sorry I already have a copy! It is such a beautiful book with lovely little details. ๐ฆ
27.11.2025 22:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Johan Cruijff said : โIf you canโt win you have to make sure you donโt lose.โ (Ajaxmuseum.nl)
26.11.2025 07:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, the Green Party's message couldn't be clearer: cut bills, tax billionaires.
We live in a massively unequal society - it's time to change that. Tax wealth fairly, reduce the strain on ordinary families, and invest in publicย services.
Is it? #TortieTuesday
25.11.2025 18:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Happy birthday Anne Louise! MY your day be filled with lots of foxes, wolves, cake and books.
24.11.2025 12:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks Alex; interesting nuance. I hope the label is correct.
23.11.2025 14:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If youโre wondering what an obsidian mirror looks like come to the Secret Maps exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social. The British Museum kindly lend this beautiful specimen. Apologies for the bad image-reflections! ๐
Love the podcast- the best philosophy lesson one can imagine.
Go on- check it out. Wonderful resources- all of them.
17.11.2025 18:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
11.11.2025 22:28 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An interesting two days lie ahead, with a varied programme on curating collections in libraries, museums, archives during conflict and crises. A good turn out of @britishlibrary colleagues and colleagues from other heritage institutions.
03.11.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Awful thing to happen. I hope she will recover well. Animals are so resilient, and cats especially so. Good luck!
28.10.2025 18:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nobel peace prize 2025 live: Marรญa Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.
10.10.2025 09:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodleyโs Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
10.10.2025 08:53 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Iโm so looking forward to todayโs event: โConnecting histories, connecting heritageโ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.
03.10.2025 06:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And 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...
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
01.10.2025 18:31 โ ๐ 795 ๐ 147 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 38London Liverpool Street to Harwich International to take the ferry to NL.
27.09.2025 18:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0FINAL CALL! โฐ
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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Best political history lessons in the world. I cannot recommend these guys high enough. Thank you guys for all your hard work.
18.09.2025 11:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I 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/
11.09.2025 23:31 โ ๐ 2187 ๐ 866 ๐ฌ 169 ๐ 128Get yourselves a copy.
05.09.2025 11:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sorry Alex, missed your comment. Medusa was outstanding. ๐๐ผ
05.09.2025 11:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And how about Farageโs 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.
05.09.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ed Davey did. What I cannot imagine is how people / media seem to be comfortable with the idea that she would have used her sonโs situation as a way to deliberately avoid tax. That would be vile and she doesnโt come across to me as vile. It must have been an honest mistake. I am gutted she is gone.
05.09.2025 11:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What craftsmanship. Held in National Gallery of Art D.C.
03.09.2025 12:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Totally agree.
03.09.2025 09:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0