The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! πͺ΄π»πΏ
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Colours | Teaching Manuscripts
I also have more info on my website: www.teachingmanuscripts.com/colours
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Colours | Teaching Manuscripts
Yes, I have a chapter on all the different pigments used in manuscripts. Also my website gives brief descriptions of all of them: www.teachingmanuscripts.com/colours
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Reds | Teaching Manuscripts
There's more information on making madder on my website: www.teachingmanuscripts.com/reds
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Oh bad luck π. My plants often donβt survive the winter, but I was surprised by how much colour I got out of roots that were only two years old
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Madder pigment in an oyster shell
Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales
Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab
Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment
Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky
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Β£145
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Ragdoll cat plonked on top of laptop to prevent the human doing any work
Youβre not working now. Youβre giving me attention
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Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...
It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...
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So excited for this! #bookhistory #medievalsky #parchment #manuscripts
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Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers
Celebrate the spooky season in style - from gothic literature to ghoulish accessories, the Booleian has you sorted!
β¨Book Cursesβ¨ is included in the list of Bewitching Bodleian Bestsellers, so you should buy Book Curses and the 1000 piece puzzle of The World of Frankenstein. Or Book Curses and a Cthulhu pin badge. Or Book Curses and the Edgar Allen Toe socks.
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Welcome back, old friend! #bookhistory
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YouTube video by Colin Gorrie
History of the alphabet: a conversation with Danny Bate
Really pleased with how this interview hosted by @colingorrie.bsky.social turned out, especially with his questions β Colin is himself such a skilled linguist that his questions fired up my own thoughts. His Yiddish/Hebrew writing reflections (48:40) was a stroke of genius.
youtu.be/5rlaMWduwyc?...
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Tawny owl
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls Iβve ever had, asking βSo when are you coming to pick up your owl?β π§΅
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I am very much looking forward to giving a paper at the @tetraseminar.bsky.social on Middle English book curses and perceptions of the material text! Book-historical horror suitable for the seasonπ―οΈππ
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A new @guildmedmak.bsky.social blog post is out, just in time for reading over your mid-afternoon tea break. This blog post is written by the inimitable @saracharles.bsky.social ('Sara of the Scriptorium').
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Ooh, Sara of the Scriptorium has a good ring to it π₯°
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Meet a Medievalist Maker: Sara Charles β The Guild of Medievalist Makers
Its the start of autumn and what better way to usher in the season than with a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost! We are delighted to introduce @saracharles.bsky.social, author of The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages. Read all about Sara's 'historical remaking' belowπ
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I love watching experimental archaeology. Not because they find out definitively how something used to be done -- that almost never happens. But because they find how it was never done.
Every time you can prove that "No, X doesn't work," you are one tangible step closer to learning what does & did.
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In this lecture, Catherine Clarke will re-visit the question of what makes history radical, asking what kind of radical history we need in our public life and contemporary context today. In particular, sheβll explore ways in which popular history β trade publishing for a wide public audience β has the capacity to be radical, drawing on experiences and examples from her own new book A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, September 2025). Catherineβs lecture will move towards a manifesto for how research-led, scholarship-driven popular history can and does make necessary, vital public interventions β from opening inclusive conversations and confronting the rise of AI, to modelling radical empathy and imagination.
I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A tale of two parchments
In this talk, Dr. JiΕΓ VnouΔek discusses differences in species choice and membrane preparation of 'Insular' and 'Continental' parchment used for book-making in the early Middle Ages.
Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: JiΕΓ VnouΔek on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation.
In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre
Or livestreamed.
Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...
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This is so beautifully written:
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Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.
Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... π΅
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? ππΊ
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Digital Development Manager @dcch-leeds.bsky.social | Carolingian intellectual culture and digital humanities
I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
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History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Host of the History of Literature Podcast. Check it out at historyofliterature.com.
Librarian who enjoyed walking around London, and beyond...
Byzantium, Renaissance humanism, battery materials, apiculture...or any combination of the above.
Ex-teacher! Author! Paperback of my book, St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women can be ordered through Columba Books or bookshops! I write about early medieval Irish saints & their monasteries/convents! Next book progressing well!
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Writer of historical novels celebrating often invisible and silent medieval women who deserve a face and a voice.
Sunday Times Best Seller
New Novel for February 2025: The Queen and the Countess
Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Library and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Junior Research Fellow @queens.cam.ac.ukβ¬ and Affiliated Lecturer @camhistory.bsky.socialβ¬. ~> Chess & Global Middle Ages.
An anthology-style podcast sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America and co-produced by Will Beattie, Loren Cantrell, Jonathan Correa Reyes, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley.
http://multiculturalmiddleages.com
Instagram: @multiculturalmiddleagespod
πͺ¦ medievalist & whale fan π
Thinking about representations of death and grief in monuments and manuscripts - currently focussed on the tomb of the children of Anne de Bretagne πͺ½
Virgin martyr obsessed π¦·ποΈπ
Writer @ Facsimile Finder π
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Medieval Literature, Games, Data. π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
Doctoral researcher at the Institute of English Studies and the British Museum.
I work on the Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century English embroidery and also its reception in the 19th century.
Palaeographer. Lecturer in Latin Palaeography of the European Middle Ages at IMEMS (Durham University). Gran Canaria-Sevilla-London-East Midlands.