Would love to tune in!
Forget Me Not?
We have a run of this annual set of gift books from 1823 to 1846 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social. Several have embossed dedication pages, most of which have been filled in by or for women! Many thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social for this excellent rabbit hole!
#WomensHistory #WHM
Prove this place is good for culture and post a good book cover
What I like to see
It’s too bad Mead didn’t note the devastation of the clearances on the Buccleuch estates - she observes oddly casually that many tenant farmers have family migration histories making them somehow more worldly and open-minded.
there are simply very, very few days where the UK gets to be Better than the usa at anything, let us enjoy this
Maybe that's why they quietly "moved on."
See, I thought it was high comedy (intentional).
Sadly no :(
Absolutely; on BBC live stream.
Did you see the people in the crowd in front of Buckingham Palace brandishing gold 66 party balloons?
Opens popcorn, streams BBC live
We've just published a new special issue of Word & Image which promises to be a major contribution to our understanding the photo book (ed. Alice Morin, Jens Ruchatz, and Vanessa Schwartz).
No-one in rural Scotland uses the front door except for funerals. It has a purely symbolic or decorative function.
There is a certain towering verticality to the frozen lake.
Not planning to leave home for the foreseeable.
Done!
Reposting as an arts administrator but mainly as someone from Lewis who knows the value of An Lanntair to the community. Art is not an ornamental "nice to have." lanntair.com/support-us/
When I've borrowed a book four times from ILL is it time to buy it?
This one does seem more on brand.
R F Kuang’s world building of nineteenth-century Oxford in Babel is overly reliant on scone consumption.
I was just going to describe it as a cross between the Vicar of Dibley and Midsomer Murders.
This must be the most English Christmas story ever: a friend had her plans disrupted because the vicar of St Boniface required her presence at the pop up Christmas choir.
Love it!
Major differences by nation in the UK.
An original Klecksographie by the original mothman, Justinus Kerner.
Any excuse to show her off.
Electronic review systems for journals are broken: I’ve received daily nagging reminders for a week to complete a review due TODAY and this morning at 5 am the machine wrote to me that my review was late . . .
My daughter is a recent Mac grad. I hope yours loves it there too.
