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The Alpine Club Library - devoted to mountains, mountaineering and the history of both. Part of @alpineclub.bsky.social Open to visitors & club members on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
Finally we have books that should be put away! Happy #worldbookday to you all!
And there's the exhibition research books ... one of these is for a future AC exhibition and one is for an exhibition we might be loaning items to ...
Next up - the book thats always on her desk because she needed it two minutes ago and never puts it back ...
It's #worldbookday and we couldn't really choose between pur books because we love them all. So this a thread about the books on our librarian's desk.
And we begin with - these all need cataloguing ...
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'Art that explores home' for Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at National Portrait Gallery 🏡@artukdotorg.bsky.social
We're sharing Rest after Toyle by Henry Willink - which perfectly captures the sense of home and community that mountaineers find on the mountains.
Paper cleaning tiny books! There's a box of these and they all have some staining from soot and a few need their fold out pages refolded so they don't overhang the edge.
Loved giving a talk at @alpineclub.bsky.social @alpineclublib.bsky.social last night on the history of the UIAA and also of its connection with the League of Nations. t.co/dJdcDhrY4l
Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday
On our birthday we have reach a huge one million artworks on Art UK!
Discover more and celebrate with us 👉 https://artuk.org/
🧑🎨 Peggy Angus (1904–1993) © estate of Peggy Angus. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. 📷 City of London Corporation
Have also now enabled the setting that stops us posting without alt-text!
So yesterday we spent some time in the basement identifying items to add to @artukdotorg.bsky.social (Our office manager has big plans!)
We figured we'd share these beauties as a taster! #mountaineering #cartoons #sketches
Reposted with alt text - @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is land and sea for Of Land and Sea at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social
We're sharing the Mer de Glace by Jean Dubois (1789–1849) - Mer de Glace translates to Sea of Ice (so it counts!) So detailed you can even see parties on the ice below.
Today is very exciting as we welcome back two paintings from restoration! Seracs has had its old varnish removed and has turned out to be blue - not green! While Himalayas from Almora has had anti reflective glass fitted and a stain from its old wood boards removed #artrestoration #mountains
These botanical illustrations are beautiful 😍 From Alberti von Haller Icones plantarum Helvetiae, 1795 #botany
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme for @artukdotorg.bsky.social is strange and subtle for Gwen John: Strange Beauties at National Museum Cardiff 🖌️
We might have ignored the theme- but Gwen John's work reminded us of these watercolours by F E Blackstone. Subtle if not strange!
Getting items out for a visit from @trincolllibcam.bsky.social peeps and loving this diary of John Auldjo in which he's not only sketched Mt Blanc but listed how few people had climbed it before him. It'd be a much long list nowadays!
Well done to all the recipients! Can't wait to see what's uncovered!
Off to ask our librarian why we don't have a delicious salami collection
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social
#OnlineArtExchange theme is #WinterSports!
We were a bit spoilt for choice but we've gone with this watercolour by Samivel. We love the use of blue and how clearly it conveys both the cold and the time it takes to climb a peak.
Yes it's signed by him. Lots of writing looks a bit like this from this period
बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”
An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition, Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s @adambutterworth.bsky.social
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'From the suburbs of London to the slopes of St Moritz'. @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Martin Polley will be speaking at this Olympic Studies Research Centre (University of East London (UEL)) online webinar on 18th February. Register at - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-the-s... #sportshistory
Our librarian is still moving everything - which has turned up these maps covered in japanese silk. The photo does not convey how nice they are to handle!
Another decorative cloth cover - this one has an equally pretty spine
Moving books in the library and found this beautiful cloth cover
This week’s #OnlineArtExchange from @artukdotorg.bsky.social is ‘light and dark’ 🌗
We've chosen a personal favourite - Between the Lights by Henry Willink
Our librarian is making phase boxes. Obviously other organisations pictures of doing this look very neat and orderly - but we prefer to keep it real
We're extremely excited to be working with @londonmountainfestival.com to bring you two exciting mountain film screenings at our HQ in #Shoreditch: Scottish mountaineering history in Kevin Woods' '3,000 Feet' and a dive into mountain photography in 'A Thousand Words' ➡️ tinyurl.com/yx4kk5fv
No - it's by Arthur Girdlestone (not a Dickensian villain despite the name!)
Scanning a letter for an email request and found this drawing of a carriage and a horse's behind. Makes a change from the usual sketches of mountains!
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is motherhood for Anna Ancher: Painting Light at
@dulwichgallery.bsky.social 🖌️
We've chosen Everest from the Rongbuk, 1924 by TH Somervell. Everest is known as Qomolangma in Tibetan which translates as Holy Mother.