Serena Cockayne Jones

A pile of pictures postcards about 7.5cm / 3 inches high. The top card shows a concrete arched building: it's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York

These are my unfiled #HigherEducationPostcard - maybe 200 in the pile

All scanned, but not sorted

And the card I'm writing about for this week's @wonkhe.bsky.social blog is in there somewhere...

Thanks for the follow, @saperebooks.bsky.social – hope you like this postcard of Eastbourne's Marine Parade. It was posted in 1907 to Miss Wilden, Hyde Park, London:

I hope you are having a nice time. We are getting on very nice so far. The weather has been rotten this week. Raining all the time.

In the jungle #art #oilpainting

Night geometry, Dumaine and N Rampart, New Orleans

Edward Ardizzone by Gabriel White Review of Edward Ardizzone by Gilbert White

Via @retroculturati.bsky.social on Facebook.

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A photo realistic illustration of a close-up of cherries in a white bowl, spilling out onto the table

How do you do that with paint?
The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cherries’
Picture Book (1973)

I am not guilty.

Stamp art by Lolly Batty.

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Two interesting stationery facts that you might need to sit down for :

1. The blue part of a classic pink/blue eraser was originally intended for pencil on thick paper, not ink.

2. Etymologically ‘stationery’ stems from ‘stationary’.

Post box air vents, London.

@bookcoverlove.bsky.social

An oak tree shadow in bluebells

Shivelight & Shadowtackle

Fast changing shafts of sunlight filtering through the canopy of a wood

Words created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

In the case of our oaks that would be ‘fast moving Ents running through the wood’ 🌳👀

Oak leaves with hoar frost

Hoar Frost

Forms when the air is still and cold, usually on clear winter nights. Water vapour in the air condenses on solid surfaces, and as the surface temperature drops below 0°C, ice crystals form.

Origin is old English for old grey hair

Print featuring a train moving on tracks covered in snow to the right along side houses with windows lit up in gold the dim winter light

'Snow in the Suburbs' by UK printmaker Gail Brodholt #WomensArt

Morning Snowfall Isleworth: acrylic on linen

Covered Bridge #Photography

This is awesome. You can feel the cold air and the damp ground under your feet.

A trail of Snoopy sculptures is now dotted around Fleet Street.

You've got until 16 January to find all 12. (We've included a map here)

Images: Fleet Street Quarter

Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers

(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)

I understand the financial reasons why indie bookstores now do a whole lot of ticketed events that requiring you purchasing the book, but really miss the days where you could go to a reading to discover if you wanted to buy the book or just, like, to support the local lit scene.

Just as literature has its famous quotations, art has its famous paintings; Van Gogh's work is on lunchboxes to umbrellas. This work won't be among them. It was made in 1881 while studying under his cousin Anton Mauve, Van Gogh thought it one of his best watercolours.

Penguin spotting.
Love those vintage Penguins!
#vintagepenguin #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign

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Four plus hours of hyperfocus and I’ve got a bookmark design for our children’s bookshop pop-up @spyglassbooks.bsky.social

There will be words at the top.

But I need to lie down now.

One down, quite a lot to go !
#photography #beliveinfilm #alternativeprocess #cyanotype #EastCoastKin

Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚

An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚

#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries

#endpapers

Book held in front of a bookshelf. The cover is blue and white striped, with an image of a pelican at the bottom.

The books on our shelves tell the history of publishing as well as the history of natural history. We love these three Pelican books, held in our Zoology Library, Penguin books’ second imprint after their main series first launched in 1937.

Animal camouflage (1946)

BBD&PA - British Book Awards
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Three independent publishers getting book design just right - Monocle These bookmakers have caught our eye with their distinctive designs and unique offerings hidden between covers.

Monocle on 3 independent publishers with distinctive cover designs

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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...