Applications for the BL's PhD placement scheme come to a close at the end of this week (27 Feb). Some juicy manuscripts projects included!
23.02.2026 08:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Applications for the BL's PhD placement scheme come to a close at the end of this week (27 Feb). Some juicy manuscripts projects included!
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The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.
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Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
🗞️Newsletter alert🗞️
Issue 85 of the AMARC newsletter is en route to our members, which means Issue 84 is now available online - take a look!
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🚨Manuscripts Event🚨
Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages
📆13-14 November
📍The Queen's College, Oxford
🚨AMARC GRANTS: upcoming deadline🚨
We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives.
📅Deadline: 1 November
Read more on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/
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! 🏰🎉
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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...
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:
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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 📜📖
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
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:
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There's still time to apply for an AMARC grant.
Deadline = this Friday 📜
🚨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! 📜📰
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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📜
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🚨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/...
🚨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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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.
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🚨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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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
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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!
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