A Middlemiss

A graphic featuring an image of Hans Soetart's book, the Scattered Library, and details of the event at the Wiener Library on 11 June at 6:30pm

🗓️ New Academic Book Talk

Hans Soetart's latest work is the first book reporting in detail on what happened in the years 1932–1935 before Jewish sexologist and LGBT-rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld’s death and, especially, during the seven years that followed.

Free tickets: buff.ly/hC9fd0E

23.04.2025 15:58 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

‘In an age of Holocaust denial, this is extraordinary proof’: The one-woman archive of Belsen’s atrocities Marking 80 years since its liberation, a new exhibition presents some remarkable items gathered by a family who survived Bergen-Belsen

"Among the more than 100 artefacts, photos, papers and postcards are items carefully gathered from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany – which was liberated 80 years ago today. Several feature in a new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

15.04.2025 07:01 — 👍 35    🔁 22    💬 6    📌 1

Report on the liberation of Bergen-Belsen This report provides an eyewitness account of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War.

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15.04.2025 15:43 — 👍 0    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Our map collection provided another excellent Little Guy™ yesterday with this lovely tiny fox(?) from TNA CO 700/NEWYORK13A

11.04.2025 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a box full of early modern letter bundles - two letters are lying on the top with the address wrapper showing.

PAST Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records, 19 June 2025 at the UK National Archives – organised by our very own Dr Oliver Finnegan!

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-recor...

Looking for more information about the workshop? See the description in the comments below.

11.04.2025 07:32 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

New MA Scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓
For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX
Apply by 2/5/2025.

02.04.2025 06:12 — 👍 9    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

"I got away."

In March 1943, Regina Barsam avoided the deportation of 50,000 Jews from Lwów to Belzec by escaping with a Polish student's passport, stolen for her by a friend.

Regina's parents and elder brother died in the ghetto #TestifyingToTheTruth buff.ly/OWGIxYq

30.03.2025 08:28 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Child's pencil drawing of a farm at the back of a 1904 book called 'The miner's guide to the Coal Mines Regulation Acts and the law of employers and workmen'. The drawing shows a fenced field with two pigs eating out of TROFFS, two ducks swimming in a pond, two possible horses, what may be a hen house, and an unidentified animal which looks as though it has two antennae. A house is next to the field on the left, it has a door, four windows, and is about half the size of one of the pigs.

Yes, we may be cataloguing Big, Serious Archive Collections about Important Events, but we're also very much enjoying this fab children's drawing of a farm, unexpectedly found in the back of a 1904 book about mining legislation

Personal highlights: TROFF & comparative pig / house scales

21.03.2025 12:10 — 👍 153    🔁 30    💬 7    📌 3

A two page spread from a very large book from the mid 1800s. There are two fabric samples pasted to the pages. The top sample is smaller, while the bottom sample covers the bottom half of both pages. They are both covered in floral patterns. They have very vibrant reds, yellows, blues, and greens. The flowers featured are mostly red.

An illustration of an early car made from metal and purple snowdrops. The car sits upon a dirt country road.

A fabric sample with a pattern of yellow roses and their vines on an aquamarine background. The background looks like brickwork, with each brick outlined in a darker blue. Some bricks are also printed with daisy-like flowers in the same dark blue.

A left page from an early modern copy of Gerard's Herbal. The page shows three illustrations of tulips in different stages of blooming.

It's the first day of spring🌷! Our Curator never misses an opportunity to photograph a flower whilst scoping, so here are a few of our favourites from The National Archives and @britishlibrary.bsky.social

20.03.2025 16:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Celebrated philosopher and champion of the Wiener Library, Alan Montefiore dies at 97 - The Jewish Chronicle An Oxford academic who ensured the survival of the Wiener Library’s priceless collection

Celebrated philosopher and champion of the Wiener Library, Alan Montefiore dies at 97

20.03.2025 12:11 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Vagina Museum hits target in ‘make or break’ crowdfunding campaign - Museums Association Venue raises almost £70,000 after warning of imminent closure

News | @vaginamuseum.bsky.social hits target in ‘make or break’ crowdfunding campaign – venue raises almost £70,000 after warning of imminent closure

17.03.2025 16:37 — 👍 81    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 3

Commission for the trial of Lady Jane Grey [TNA KB 8/23]

Close up of "Edwardus" on a Great Seal [TNA KB 8/23]

Lady Jane Grey's trial occurred so early in Mary I's reign that a Great Seal for Mary hadn't yet been made. As such, the trial records use Edward VI's seal instead. [TNA KB 8/23]

02.03.2025 16:21 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1