Oliver & Company! With @aglmasters.bsky.social
09.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🏳️🌈 Gay Life during the Norwich Blitz by Piers Haslam. Join us for our next lunchtime talk marking LGBT+ history month, either in person or online.
📅 Wednesday 11 February 2026
⏲️ 13:00-14:00
🎫 Free, booking essential norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/events-novem...
#norwichintheblitz #lgbthistorymonth
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An etching of the crucifixion, by the Augsburg engraver Lambrecht Hopfer, c. 1525-50. His image was based on one of 1511 by Albrecht Dürer. Pasted into a volume of texts by Saint Bonaventure (printed at Brescia in 1497), now theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.4.B.23.12[3713].
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Yes a lot of water, but calm...
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😊
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‘We’ve lost everything’: anger and despair in Sicilian town collapsing after landslide
People in Niscemi struggle to comprehend loss of homes and businesses and feel disaster could have been avoided
Perched on the edge of the mudflow, Biblioteca Marsiano, a public library in the Sicilian town of Niscemi, hangs over the void. Its basement holds more than 4,000 rare and valuable books. The library lies in the “black zone”, off-limits even to firefighters.
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Oooh this one is cool @mercuryowl.bsky.social
08.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And on Rupert Brooke: ‘He has an extraordinarily handsome head, & grows his light silky curls long…’
08.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A. C. Benson on M. R. James as Provost of King’s: ‘He lives his old easy life, quite alone, quite contented, hating his business meetings … hopes that nothing will happen to disturb him, catalogues MSS, reads Dickens & plays cards’.
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Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755
At the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) in Lincolnshire, founded in 1710, there is a rich archive of minute books, correspondence, accounts, printed ephemera and artwork, parts of which have been used over the years to tell the story of various aspects of its existence. What follows interrogates these archives using qualitative and quantitative methods alongside analysis of networks to paint a bigger picture which shows how the provincial location of the SGS shaped its structure, knowledge networks and interests. I argue that founder Maurice Johnson – far from slavishly copying the structures and activities of the metropolitan societies with which he was familiar – turned the provincial situation to his advantage. Influences from London did shape its early form, including its meeting place (the coffee house) and reading material (periodicals sent from London). Johnson engaged his Society with local opportunities for sociability and entertainment, created and sustained extensive networks of honorary members to provide material for discussion at the local level, and above all involved as wide a spectrum of people as possible. Because of this, local members of the SGS did not need to rely on links with London. Rather, these links allowed them to flourish independently. Of particular interest is what its activities show us about how learned societies in this period engaged with familial networks, as well as how women could be involved in antiquarian and scientific work at an institutional level. This was also a period in which certain genres of writing – notably here institutional records such as minute books – were in flux. I use the SGS minute books to explore the material cultures of institutional record-keeping and show how such records served a variety of purposes, notably in creating an institutional identity. My work views the SGS’s activities through a number of contemporary scholarly and interdisciplinary lenses in eighteenth-century studies, including provincial sociability, print and manuscript culture, and gender history. Provinciality should be considered as a necessary factor which allowed it to do extraordinary things, far out of scale with its local means.
What about this? The link in the post still works for me weirdly. DM me if not and I’ll email it to you 😊
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08.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Marble bust of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), founder of @linneansociety.bsky.social, spotted in the Society this week. In 1784 he bought for £1000 the collection of manuscripts, books & specimens brought together by Carl Linnaeus, which later became the foundations of the Linnean Society.
08.02.2026 10:46 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
a circular hard enamel pin that says "It's Dr actually" in dark metal text on a white enamel background. It is also shown glowing in the dark
it's dr actually pins in nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, lgbtq, lesbian, black, white, hot pink, purple, dark green, light green, light blue, and light pink colours
Very excited to announce the new pin in my "It's Dr, Actually" collection: Glow in the dark!! 😍🧪
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06.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 69 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 2
It's silver with some kind of yellow thread wound around it (not, as far as I can tell, gold...)
06.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The whole…
06.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 1
Fun task last thing on a Friday: recataloguing (because it had disappeared from the catalogue) Francis Bacon’s presentation copy to Cambridge University of his Works (London, 1623). In a contemporary binding of blue velvet embroidered with silver thread. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.2.84.
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Woodcut of the crucifixion, from a Dutch edition of the ‘Speculum Humanæ Salvationis’ (Mirror of Human Salvation), printed at Culemborg in 1483. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1916 & now Inc.4.E.9.1[3112].
06.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Coming to your library shelves this summer!
06.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 28 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1
The flying saint
BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century (c.780 CE-800 CE); France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); f.59v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
05.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 41 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2
Lucky to hear Sir Ian give this after a talk in Cambridge last year. Very powerful stuff.
05.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Black Women in the Tudor Court - Spalding Gentlemen's Society
The film is a screen dance that explores the lives of a group of people of African descent in early Tudor England.
Join us on Friday 6 February, from 7.30pm, for our latest lecture: Black Women in the Tudor Court. Our speaker, Candace Scarborough, is a movement artist, historian, and PhD student at the University of Roehampton. See: www.sgsoc.org/events/black...
#SpaldingEvents #HeritageTalks
05.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great day ahead @linneansociety.bsky.social
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😂
05.02.2026 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A. C. Benson on Comper: ‘so hideously obstinate that I rather hated him’.
04.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Frankish monk Rabanus Maurus died #OTD in 856. His ‘De laudibus sanctae crucis’ (a series of poems on the cross) involves complex imagery, the letters within it making new texts. Here’s the first printed edition of the text, produced at Pforzheim in 1503. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Tb.51.57.
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Ooh yes! Strange isn't it.
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The Frankish monk Rabanus Maurus died #OTD in 856. His 'De laudibus sanctae crucis' (a series of poems on the cross) involves complex imagery, the letters within it making new texts. On the L is an 11thC manuscript copy made at Canterbury (Gg.5.35); on the R a printed edition from 1503 (Tb.51.57).
04.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Woodcut of the raising of Lazarus, from ‘The myrrour of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste’, an English translation of Bonaventure’s ‘Meditationes Vitæ Christi’. Printed at London by Richard Pynson in 1494. Came to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1715 and now Inc.4.J.3.6[3622].
04.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A Cambridge Love Letter
February 2026: celebrating love and other imperfections
My February newsletter, about love letters, books, and a less than romantic marriage proposal from a Cambridge don in 1924.
03.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Is weather ever just ‘clement’?
03.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
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Posts about gardening,🌱 history, food & art. Occasional rants about the state of the world.
LGBT+ 🏳️⚧️ ally 🏳️🌈 State pensioner so please don’t ask me for money. She/her
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Leicester, UK.
Teacher, Author, Researcher. Education, science, biology. Founder of Moss Safari - microscopic adventures to learn about microscopy and microbiology. 🔬💚 Diversity in every sense of the word 🏳️🌈.
Come, join the adventure.
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Professional tree enthusiast with a PhD about it.
Not being super professional here.
I make pride pins to fund my transition.
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Matthew Roberts is on the PhD Text, Practice as Research (part-time) program at the University of Kent. He has entered his fourth year of study. #queer #british #holiday #playwrighting #creativity #phd #research #seaside #leisure #liminality #Gulliver
🌊 Director of Incredible Oceans CIC | 📚 Author of Ocean Endangered | 🎓 Lecturer at UoExeter & Falmouth Uni | 🐬 Marine Expert for New Scientist Tours
On a mission to bring the ocean to everyone. Cornwall based.
Lecturer of Science Education @KingsECS and @crestem_kcl, PhD student @KCL, Teacher of Science in Westminster. Interested in diversity and inclusion in education research, particularly issues of exclusion and participation for LGBTQ+ youth.
25 / PhD student at the University of St Andrews / Working on Eastern Christians and their role as mediators between the Franks and the Mongols / (He/Him)
Social historian of modern places. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out March 2026. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
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Type designer. Calligrapher. Lettering designer.
Passionate about letterforms of all kinds. Culture, research, fun.
Raising two bilingual kids. Married. Addicted to long walks.
Cambridge, UK
An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Welcoming media and local government to Bluesky.
Cultural and Literary Historian, EM PhD
Analyst-Feminist-actor-massage therapist-cook- @kylieminogue -Nigella-Kate Bush-Dannii-ALL my views-He/They 🌈❄️🕊
Academic Book Out Now: Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (2025).
Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen + ASD | studies Mediterranean economic history 1350–1750, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Book designer
York, UK
he/him
danielgray.com
#Archaeology, #Ancient #Classical World & #Roman Frontier Studies MA. Former life Archaeologist doing a bit now and then. Every day above ground is a good day! Romanes eunt domus!😂
British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
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Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
(Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
