Anne McLaughlin

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

It’s back!!!

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Wren Library in early morning sunshine.

One of the perks of waking up early to open the Library: seeing the Wren drenched in gold. ☀️

The Bridge of Sighs with blue sky and autumnal trees reflected in the river.

Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss.

#worldmentalhealthday

Screenshot of a paragraph in ‘Navigating the History of ‘Translation-Adaptation’: The Case of La Sorella by Gianbattista Della Portaand Adelphe by Samuel Brooke’.

Reminded by Giuseppe Rollo’s recent chapter that history is never irrelevant…

Indeed we are!👋 👋

Hi Carin, thanks for coming to the rescue! The links on data.mgh.de are to our older server, that we use as a backup. It won't have our newest digitisation on it, and in some cases has been superseded - but I'm glad we have it, for cases just such as this!

Hi Alex, I look after digitisation here at the Wren -- what manuscript do you need? I might have a secondary link...

It's us, not you! We hope to get things back in order soon...

Hi Brandon, While our main server is down at the moment; until we're back in business here's a link our second server to work with: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/.... We're upgrading our infrastructure to avoid such issues in the future, but I recognise that the frustration is real currently!

Hi Carin! Unfortunately our main server is currently offline 😔, though our IT team has been alerted and should hopefully get it back up soon! Which ms are you interested in, I may be able to provide a secondary link!

Senator Cory Booker puts his hand on his heart in appreciation as the Senate applauds for him for having just broken Strom Thurmond's 24-hour-plus record for the longest speech in the US Senate.

While it feels like there’s precious little one can feasibly do, the least I can do is back those who are working to shed a little light on the darkness.

Brava!!

Love love love.

Gothic or not -- it's a lovely little book! Thanks for the great thread Carin!!

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

The painting "Lawyer's Cabinet" by Dirk van Delen, dated 1642. You see an interior of a contemporary (Dutch) lawyer's office with lots of books, and papers. The details are described in this thread. A source for the digitized painting is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Dirck_van_Delen_-_The_Lawyer%27s_Cabinet.jpg

The painting "Lawyer's Cabinet" by Dirk van Delen, dated 1642. You see an interior of a contemporary (Dutch) lawyer's office with lots of books, and papers. The details are described in this thread. A source for the digitized painting is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Dirck_van_Delen_-_The_Lawyer%27s_Cabinet.jpg

You may have read it before on this account: #earlymodern Europe was a paper age. Let's focus, once more if you fancy, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper.

Another 🧵 for #paperhistory nerds, and enjoying #skystorians 🗃️

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The fountain in the centre of great court, Trinity College, Cambridge

Frost and fog and a frozen fountain!

YouTube video by Dua Lipa Dua Lipa - Levitating (Official Animated Music Video)

You can thank me later:
🔗 what-is-dh-the-album.netlify.app/vol-01/digit... & 🔗 youtu.be/N000qglmmY0?... (all credit to Philip Allfrey)! #IIIF #WhoNeedsAJobDescription

🚨 Exciting opportunity alert! 🚨
Trinity College is looking to recruit two enthusiastic Graduate Trainees, one to join our Library team, and one to be part of the Archives team. There is still time to apply before the deadline of Sunday 2nd February.

For details: trin.cam.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/

Can’t wait to get my hands on this!! Sounds ace!

LAST CHRISTMAS Ich gave thee my hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole my hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme
biyonde all the stars.

SEEKE NOW my hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste!

Ford Lectures! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne! Bet these'll be great! @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

A selection of black and white photographs documenting archeological finds

What’s the best thing about working in a library? When gorgeous photographs from an archeological excavation at Nemi in the mid 1880s find their way onto your desk!

Saddened to see this as someone who walked the Camino as a solo woman at 21 who (very luckily) faced none of these horrors. And very very angered that so many have.

And the author has just joined us all here on Bluesky! You can find him at @cdrieshen.bsky.social!

We at the London Palaeography Seminar have a special treat for you on Tuesday 12th Nov at 5:30pm - Tessa Webber speaking on 'Punctuation and the aural dimension of Latin texts in the Middle Ages'. In person in Senate House and hybrid. Do sign up:
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/punct...

Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

This is a fascinating study. But when you find a Lidar survey of a region, process it with archaeological techniques, and locate an archaeological site, that’s not “an accident”. That’s “an on purpose”. 🗃️