Oh that’s so sad! 😢 Keep spreading the word, now my tattoo artist thinks female mystics are cool! 🤗
07.03.2026 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh that’s so sad! 😢 Keep spreading the word, now my tattoo artist thinks female mystics are cool! 🤗
07.03.2026 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A new tattoo inspired by Julian of Norwich! Here’s the opening page of a 15th-century copy of the Revelations of Divine Love (short text) in @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 37790, f. 97r 📜🎉
07.03.2026 19:39 — 👍 42 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
This one’s for the real ghoulies! In honour of The Bride! film, here’s a fantastic 15th-century depiction of La Danse Macabre des Femmes (the Dance of Death of the Women) from @labnf.bsky.social MS. Fr. 995, f. 30v ☠️🎞️🖤#monstermash
06.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I had a fantastic sneak peak at the @rialibrary.bsky.social Genesis Bone ahead of @pomuirch.bsky.social’s lunchtime lecture today, an animal bone carved with biblical text by 19th-century Irish language scholar Thaddeus Connellan! 📜🦴
05.03.2026 18:27 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
An amazing @bibsoc.bsky.social Winter Virtual Visit to the Vatican Library with a presentation by the Manuscript Department’s Stephen Metzger! So fun to see highlights like the Thomas Aquinas autograph ms! 📜🎉
03.03.2026 16:40 — 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
A fantastic treat of teaching manuscripts today for a wonderful group of visiting students to @rialibrary.bsky.social! 📜🎉
03.03.2026 13:22 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Shots of Rome taken on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 film! 🇮🇹📸
27.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
So lucky to catch The Testament of Ann Lee in 70mm at the Irish Film Institute, amazing watch for any fans of female mystics and Amanda Seyfried serves incredible Margery Kempe energy! 🙏🎬
26.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats to the amazing Oxford Conservation Consortium team for their new article in the @araukie.bsky.social journal on their projects to rehouse estates and livings records of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and other colleges! 📜🎉
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Puzzle Binding!
Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)
Would love to see this! 📜🎉
22.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So thrilled to catch Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals exhibition today, I’m obsessed with Constable’s clouds and they had a whole dedicated section in the show! 😍☁️🎨
22.02.2026 22:43 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I never copped on how central it is, so pleased to finally make it! 🤗
22.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So atmospheric! 😍
22.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brilliant historic walk with the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk crew yesterday following in Giordano Bruno’s footsteps across London’s Strand from his 1584 Ash Wednesday Supper adventure! 📖👣🎉
22.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Major #churchcrawling bucklet list achieved yesterday with a visit to the amazing St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield! 🔔🎉
22.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 48 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
A fantastic reading tonight by Anthony Delaney from his book Queer Georgians on the Ladies of Llangollen accompanied with contemporary music performed by the Irish Baroque Orchestra! 📖🎶🎉
19.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for your question, but I unfortunately don’t know!
18.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photography is not allowed in the Sistine Chapel, so here’s an internet shot of the ceiling I got to see today!
16.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A fantastic final day in Rome today with a power trip around the Vatican Museums and church crawling visits to Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and San Pietro in Montorio! 🇮🇹🎉
16.02.2026 23:51 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Had a great trip to the Borghese Gallery yesterday, plus a church crawling extravaganza including visits to Sancta Sanctorum, San Giovanni in Laterano + Battistero, and Eglise Saint Louis des Français! 🔔🎨
16.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Fun church crawls today to Basilica di S. Maria in Trastevere and Santa Sabina + bonus accidental find of St Valentine’s relics on Valentine’s Day in Santa Maria in Cosmedin! ☠️❤️
14.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A fantastic tour of the Il Tempo Della Devotione exhibition today at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome with curator Francesca Manzari! 📜🎉
14.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It was so lovely to visit! 🤗
14.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Church crawling: Rome edition! Amazing visits today to Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the Basilica di Santa Prassede and Santa Maria Maggiore 🔔🎨🇮🇹
13.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
One for the ghoulies! Tomorrow is both Friday the 13th and Galentine’s Day, celebrate with your special memento mori ☠️💕
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Yates Thompson MS 7, f. 174r
It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
11.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 41 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 6
Get the music started! This rabbit has his bagpipes ready for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, from a 14th-century Psalter now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 6, f. 33v 🐰🏈🎶
08.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 76 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
I had so much fun exploring the medieval vaults of Oxford’s Mitre Inn (now Gusto Restaurant) as part of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk’s Hidden Spaces series- check out the video on YouTube or Instagram! 🤗🎉
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A nice bank holiday #churchcrawl to Cong Abbey, Co Mayo!
01.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0