Marja Kingma

There can never be enough photos of Robins. Keep them coming, please!

Thank you, Alex, that would be lovely.

Secret Maps is open:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday  09.30  –  18.00
Tuesday  09.30  –  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.

I 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. 😃

I’m almost sorry I already have a copy! It is such a beautiful book with lovely little details. 🦊

Dit is Ajax. Dit is het Ajax Museum. Dit is Ajax. Dit is het Ajax Museum. Museum met unieke spullen van de mooiste club van allemaal. Ajax Erfgoed, Bordjesclub, Johan Cruijff, Ajaxmuseum.

Johan Cruijff said : ‘If you can’t win you have to make sure you don’t lose.’ (Ajaxmuseum.nl)

Ahead 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 public services.

Is it? #TortieTuesday

Happy birthday Anne Louise! MY your day be filled with lots of foxes, wolves, cake and books.

Thanks Alex; interesting nuance. I hope the label is correct.

If you’re 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! 🙄
Love the podcast- the best philosophy lesson one can imagine.

Go on- check it out. Wonderful resources- all of them.

Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!

An 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.

Awful thing to happen. I hope she will recover well. Animals are so resilient, and cats especially so. Good luck!

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.

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!

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

FINAL CALL! ⏰

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.

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/

Get yourselves a copy.

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

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.

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.

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

Totally agree.