If you are in Bristol over the next couple of days. Pop into Central Library and catch the Medieval Manuscripts exhibition whilst you can. Ends Friday 19 December!

Here’s something to look forward to! In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition! 🗓️ 4-18 December

It’s Special Collections Sunday this weekend. If you are in Bristol and fancy seeing some cool old books - head to Central Library for a bloomin’ marvellous afternoon. Sunday 22 June 2-4pm.

Creepy or cute??

I’ve been working on the next Special Collections Sunday display. The theme is Animals in old books - and this is by far my favourite animal in a book. Come meet this guy Sunday 2 March anytime between 2-4pm at Bristol Central Library 📚 🦛 🦏 🦒 🐅 🐘 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-co...

Damn! I missed International Zebra Day … a day late but here’s a C19th prancing Zebra.

How well do you know Bristol? Can you help identify these streets? 📷 At Bristol Libraries we are sorting through hundreds of old slides from the Local Studies Collection. They are a great snapshot of the city in 60s, 70s and 80s but many are not labelled! #Bristol

Here’s a blast from the past!

What’s in a name? Tomorrow’s Special Collections Sunday at Bristol Central Library is all about old pubs of Bristol. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm. One of the pubs highlighted is the Fourteen Stars (demolished 1857) - but we aren’t sure how the pub got its name. Can anyone help? …

20 things I liked in 2024 : Hanging out with friends and family 😎 My birthday party 🎉 Whiskey night 🥃 Burns night (not haggis - did not like that) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Making Brucelets ✋ Random dogs 🐕 Agatha Christie audiobooks 📚 Arthur (he liked the haggis) 🐶 Tea and cake on Tuesdays 🍰 Lots of tea 🫖 …

I opted to stay in and bring the pub to me last night. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

We’ll have some interesting old Christmassy themed things on display at Bristol Central Library tomorrow. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm #Bristol #BristolLibraries #SpecialCollectionsSunday

In need of some Christmas gift ideas?

Triptych. Dog stubbornly refusing to go for a walk.

Ok Bert, that’s enough, cut it out! #StormBert

If I could time travel for one day only, I’d go to 18 November 1975, Hammersmith. 🤔 Where would you go?

Bwrw Eira! ❄️

A book shelf on my bookshelf. 🤔

If you are in Bristol on Saturday pop into Central Library. Meet the curator & learn more about the exhibition ‘This Revolution in the Town’: The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840 🗓️ Saturday 28 September 🕰️ Drop in between 10am-2pm. 📚 Books on display in the Bristol Room. tinyurl.com/sst4yvyk

Much to the annoyance of my colleagues I’ve come up with a Book of the Week jingle (to the tune of Blankety Blank) and dance (more of a shuffle) every week whilst putting out Book of the Week … 😊

I’ve just had a nice cuppa sat on the balcony reading all about women’s devotional literary culture in medieval Bristol - by Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy, featuring manuscripts from from Bristol Central Library 😊 📚

There’s a lunchtime lecture at Bristol Central Library tomorrow at 12.30 ‘Mary Anning's astonishing ichthyosaur’ by Deborah Hutchinson. If you are in Bristol Come along! I’m so excited I made a Lego Mary Anning 😊

Here’s an online exhibition on Fairy and Folk Tales for your Sunday evening entertainment. If you like that sort of thing 😊 tinyurl.com/Fairy-and-Folk-Tales

Just in case you need a recipe ‘To perplex a Witch’ From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.

I love this book cover. It’s also lovingly tattered and worn with use. Read and re-read over years no doubt.

‘A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination.’

May I recommend this free online talk, tomorrow Wednesday 11 October 7pm. It’s about this lovely Book of Hours and the woman who owned it, Isabella Ruddock-Clyve. www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-arch...

I’m very sad. With Vauxhall Bridge closing this is my last day commuting to work on the ferry. Bah!

Came across this photo in the library with the caption : ‘The cataloguing department in the 1930’s. Miss Milden and Miss Evans spring into action following the arrival of new books’. It amused me.