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We had an amazing @amarc.bsky.social visit today to the Royal Library and College of St George at Windsor Castle for tours and displays of archives, mss and artworks, including the Sobieski Hours and drawings by Da Vinci! 🏰🎉

Booking is still open for our Summer event and AGM on 15 July. Schedule below!

#BookHistory #ManuscriptMonday #MedievalSky📜

Next AMARC meeting in Windsor, don't forget to sign up

Two positions for board membership will be filled: Web editor and Newsletter editor

Interested? Check how to apply from our latest newsletter that just arrived to the mailbox closest to you!

🚨Newsletter online🚨

While we’re putting the finishing touches on our next edition, you can catch up on the latest updates in Issue 83 of the AMARC Newsletter.

📬 Read it here: amarcsite.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Forthcoming Meetings Summer Meeting and AGM 2025 Royal Library and Royal Archives at Windsor Castle and St George’s Chapel Archives and Chapter Library 15 July 2025, 10.00-16.00 Exploring Windsor’s Library and Archive …

Booking for the AMARC 2025 Summer Meeting and AGM is now open!

📍Royal Library and Royal Archives at Windsor Castle and St George’s Chapel Archives and Chapter Library
📅 15 July
⏰ 11.00-15.30

See our website for booking info:
amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

YouTube video by Lambeth Palace Library Refolding the Lambeth bat book

For our current exhibition #UnfoldingTime, we refolded one of our almanacs back into its original medieval ‘bat book’ form. 🦇📖📜
Curious about these fascinating folded books? Watch our new video to learn more about them and the refolding process.
🎥 youtu.be/zZ68dfK5hug
#MedievalSky #BookHistory

Register now for this free event @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social!

📆Friday 21 March
🕓11am-5pm

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/...

For those of you who can't make it to Oxford, the event will also be live streamed.

#MedievalSky 📜📖

Register now for this free event @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social!

📆Friday 21 March
🕓11am-5pm

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/...

For those of you who can't make it to Oxford, the event will also be live streamed.

#MedievalSky 📜📖

Hybrid symposium: Medieval miniatures from Byvanck to the RKD On 18 March 2025, the RKDwill host a symposium on illuminated manuscripts.

Registration is open for the Byvanck symposium, hosted by the RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History:

Medieval miniatures from Byvanck to the RKD 📜

📆 18 March 2025
💻 Hybrid

Admission is free, but registration is required.

www.rkd.nl/en/current/e...

#MedievalSky

Copy of issue 83 of the AMARC Newsletter

It's out!

Issue 83 of the AMARC Newsletter is out in the wild, so members, check your post.

AMARC members are sent the latest newsletter biannually, with individual membership costing just £10/year

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📜📰 #BookHistory #Manuscripts

Newsletters 81-90 AMARC Newsletter No. 81: Newsletter81 AMARC Newsletter No. 82: Newsletter82

Now that our next Newsletter is almost ready, we've uploaded our latest issue for everyone to see!

Find issue 82 of the AMARC Newsletter here:

amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-...

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There's still time to apply for an AMARC grant.
Deadline = this Friday 📜

Grants AMARC aims ‘to promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives of all periods in libraries and other research collections in Great Britain and Ireland’. AM…

🚨AMARC GRANT DEADLINE🚨

Just over 2 weeks left to apply for an AMARC grant (deadline 1 November).

We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives 📜📚

amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/

Thanks to all those who submitted. Our next newsletter is in the making! 📜📰

Newsletter Twice a year members of AMARC receive the AMARC Newsletter (ISSN 0263-3442 until issue no. 45, thereafter ISSN 1750-9874). The newsletter provides information under the following headings: Recent and ...

Members!

You have 2 weeks left to submit your manuscript announcements to our newsletter editors.

📅Deadline 1 October

For inspiration on the kinds of news we usually include, take a look at our website, and our past newsletters📜

amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletter/

🚨Exhibition alert🚨

'Her Booke' at Lambeth Palace Library highlights material owned, written, commissioned, and translated by women during the long early modern period 📜📖

This free exhibition will be on display until 21 November

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/...

Part of the Furniture: The Library of John Bedford Rare and beautiful books chart the evolution of furniture design over the centuries and the journey from drawing board, to workshop, to home.

🚨EXHIBITION ALERT🚨

'Part of the Furniture: The Library of John Bedford' at Leeds University Library until 21 Dec.
The exhibition charts the evolution of furniture design over the centuries and the journey from drawing board, to workshop, to home.

library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

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Newsletters 81-90 AMARC Newsletter No. 81: Newsletter81

Each of our newsletters includes a list of new accessions - manuscripts acquired by our institutional members 📜📖

Take a look at one of our most recent newsletters to find out more.

amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-...

🚨Exhibition alert🚨

'Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480 to 1630' at the National Library of Scotland shines a light on the many intellectual, political, commercial and artistic links between Scotland and other European countries during that period.

www.nls.uk/whats-on/ren...

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The 'Murder by the Book' exhibition at @theul.bsky.social
is in its final month 📚🗡️

Visit before it closes on 24 August

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/murderbytheb...

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Past Grants 2023- Conference ‘Church, Saints and Seals 1150–1300’. Submitted by Cressida Williams, Archives and Library Manager, Canterbury Cathedral Archives (Newsletter80)- Attendance of a conference on medieva...

Curious about the types of projects we fund?

Check out our 'Past grants' page on our website:
amarcsite.wordpress.com/past-grants/

Next grant deadline 📅 1 November

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Just a couple of days left to register for

Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World 📜

📍Cork, Ireland
📅27–28 August 2024
Register by 31 July

papertrailsiceland.wixsite.com/papertrails/...

Past Meetings These pages include details of AMARC's meetings since 2000, with information on papers given and the speakers. Posters of AMARC meetings from 2014 onwards can be explored below and on the pages for in...

A reminder that recordings of two of our past online events are available on the AMARC website

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See our past meetings page for more!

amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/pas...

Forthcoming Meetings Details of our forthcoming meetings will be available here soon.

Our Summer meeting has come to an end.

A huge thanks to our speakers-@hwaetspur.bsky.social, @drdavidrundle.bsky.social, Sheila Sweetinburgh & David Shaw- and to the Canterbury team for hosting us.

Keep your eyes open for details of our next meeting 👀

amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

Today is the last day to book onto our Summer meeting at Canterbury Cathedral! See below for booking details 👇

🚨2 days left 🚨 to book onto our Summer meeting
at Canterbury Cathedral ⛪📜

🚨Digital MSS Project🚨

The Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) has launched ARCA: a directory of manuscripts, incunabula and antiquarian books kept in libraries around the world Explore the database here:

arca.irht.cnrs.fr

We still have some spaces left on our 24 June meeting at Canterbury Cathedral - an event that is open to everyone!

See below for more info 👇📜

conference 2024 The 2024 conference will mark the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the NEMC's founding. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especial...

🚨CFP deadline on 15 June🚨

The New England Medieval Consortium 2024 will take place at Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, on 9 November, with the theme:

Books and Transgressions 📚

For more information on how to submit, see:
newenglandmedieval.org/upcoming/

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The next Edward Worth Library seminar will take place on 4 July:

Giles Mandelbrote (@warburginstitute.bsky.social)
'Exploring the London Book Trade in the Seventeenth Century' 📜

For how to book and a list of the rest of their 2024 lectures, see: edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-eve...