@liber-ray.bsky.social
Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖 Medievalist 📜 I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Spooky shots of Glendalough taken on my Rollei 35S camera! 👻
12.11.2025 07:21 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0A new type of kissing gate!
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A fun #churchcrawl to Glendalough, Co Wicklow today! 🍁
08.11.2025 18:48 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Thank you! Let me know if you’re ever in Dublin! 🤗☘️
06.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
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In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books.
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Ah miss you and Lincoln already! ❤️
05.11.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will hopefully be visiting before or after Xmas, will keep you posted! 😂
04.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much, excited to do some Irish church crawling soon! 🤗☘️
04.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much, let me know if you’re ever planning a Dublin trip! ☘️
04.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aw thank you! Looking forward to visiting soon for manuscript fun! 📜❤️
04.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much! 🤗📜🎉
04.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! 🤗
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Excited to start today in my new role as Collections and Archives Manager at @rialibrary.bsky.social! Looking forward to working with my colleagues and fun projects! 🤗📖🎉
03.11.2025 13:23 — 👍 90 🔁 3 💬 11 📌 2
Only on display for two hours per week, it was amazing to see Frederic William Burton‘s painting ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ in person today @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social! 🎨❤️
02.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
And here’s the video for anyone who wants to see me deliver a presentation as a cat! 🐈⬛🎉
youtu.be/xeF-poNAx_A?...
Silly Goose Club for life!! 🪿❤️
31.10.2025 09:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m joining the Royal Irish Academy Library in Dublin! 🎉
31.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will hopefully be back soon for a visit! 🤗
31.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much to my friends and colleagues who came to my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Spooktacular leaving do today and let me match my costume to a medieval bestiary! 📜🐈⬛❤️🎉
30.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 48 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0I’m heading to the Royal Irish Academy Library in Dublin! 🤗☘️
30.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for a lovely last day in the archives and fantastic guest night with the gang! 😍🎉
29.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Had so much fun with Laure Miolo last week sharing amazing @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts with MSt students as an introduction to the history of the book and palaeography! A blog with videos is now up on their highlights: medieval.ox.ac.uk/between-bats...
28.10.2025 09:33 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A spooky church crawl today to see the amazing transi tomb of Alice Chaucer at St Mary the Virgin Church, Ewelme! ☠️🎃🍁
26.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
23.10.2025 23:23 — 👍 53 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1Thank you so much, I will be joining the Royal Irish Academy Library in Dublin with lots of amazing manuscript treats! You will have to come visit! 📜🎉
23.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah so pleased you can make it! 👻🎉
22.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trick or Treat! To mark my last week in Oxford, all Bod-card holding friends and colleagues are invited to a manuscript spooktacular that I’m hosting on Thursday, 30 October at 3pm in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visiting Scholars’ Centre! 🎃👻📜✨
22.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0That’s wild! 🔔
16.10.2025 07:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can ring my bell! Had a great evening bell-ringing with the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers 🔔🎉
Ape ringing bells from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 118, f. 35v
