Interested in #books and the history of #printing? Looking for something great to do this week? Explore historical objects –including the oldest letterpress book in #BRLSI collections in an #exhibition curated by #students from #BathSpaUni #MakingYourMark. #Bath #Somerset

🎨👕BRLSI’s Academy of Imagination Becky is thrilled to share the two winning designs of our T-shirt design competition. A huge thank you to all participants! Keep an eye on the Academy of Imagination page for upcoming events! www.brlsi.org/aoi/

AnaÏs Nin ran a treadle-press in the 40s and there's this wonderful quotation of hers I printed recently.

🐴 Black Beauty in Bath 📖 Discover how Anna Sewell’s life in Bath inspired Black Beauty. Join Dr Celia Brayfield to explore the story behind the beloved novel. 🗓 5 Nov 🕢 7:30–9pm📍 BRLSI & Zoom 💷 £3–£6 👉 brlsi.org/whatson/bl...

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social. A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

📜Bath History Festival 2025 comes to BRLSI on Sat 1 Nov! A full day of talks uncovering Bath’s past, from Richard III to the secrets beneath Bath Abbey. ☕Tickets include lunch, tea & coffee. www.brlsi.org/bathhi... #BathHistoryFestival #BathHistory #HistoryTalks

👀 @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @shgregg.bsky.social @bathspauni.bsky.social

Join Dr Tim Moore, @nationaltrust.org.uk curator, to hear the vibrant, often overlooked histories of people of colour in Georgian-era Bath 🎟️ www.brlsi.org/whatson/peop... 💡 Ahead of the talk, read our “Five Questions With…” interview: www.brlsi.org/dr-tim-moore... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeorgianBath

Two BRLSI speakers have been nominated for the Wolfson History Prize! 🏆 📖 Dr Eleanor Barraclough – past talk on hidden lives of Viking Age women 🌍 Kieran Connell – upcoming talk on Britain’s multicultural history #WolfsonPrize #HistoryMatters

📷A dolphin wrapped around an anchor - the logo by #Renaissance scholar #AldusManuitius, #BRLSIarchive. This spirit of invention links Manutius to Gutenberg, whose revolutionary press is explored by Dr Kristian Jensen in Gutenberg & the European Invention of Printing www.brlsi.org/whatso...#Renaissance

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

GOOD NEWS ! "A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions." #baroque #music www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Long way off but hey. Come to @brlsi.bsky.social in November! www.brlsi.org/whatson/cele...

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

“There, Sisyphus toils—straining to zero the inbox, only for Nathan to smite him with that cruelest of follow-ups: ‘Just checking if you saw this?’” — Virgil, Aeneid

Welcome to Day 2 of Swedish Church on a Skateboard! It should arrive at 5pm Swedish time (GMT+2), greeted by a gospel choir. Will be amazing to see how they get it off the skateboard. Live feed here: lkab.com/kalender/kyr...

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.

NEW VIEWPOINT ARTICLE: 'Pageant Stations: Civic Entertainments in The London Journal', by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social, available open access. A little 🧵 on the insights it provides...

I’ve just put my trousers on back to front. Im 62 on Sunday.

I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

BHO is having intermittent downtime at the moment. We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.

Sad news from Pocket, the save-for-later and content discovery app. Pocket will shut down on July 8 2025. Users can keep using the app and browser extensions until then. However, from May 22 it won’t be possible to download the app. Yet another free digital curation apps I have used and loved.

Radio 3 next week: 9.45pm - books during WWII. Brief Encounter and Boots Lending Library, POWs requesting books from the Red Cross based in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, the first bonkbuster, and much more. Great fun to make www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Baskerville 2025 is the 250th anniversary of the death of John Baskerville, Birmingham industrialist, best known for the typeface bearing his name. Unveiling of a Blue Plaque recently took place at The Exchange #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!! datb.cerl.org/estc/

Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an essential force for good. Rare Book School affirms the vital importance of @nehgov.bsky.social in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.

Being on the Executive Council of SHARP has been a real joy. If you're a SHARPist with fiscal experience (do you manage grants? departmental budgets? know what a 501(c)3 is?), then maybe this is a good fit for you!

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Yesterday, we celebrated #IWD2025 by unveiling our plaque to celebrate our Suffragette Tree at @bathspauni.bsky.social which has a QR code which leads to a brilliant article about BSU and Bath’s entwined history of suffrage and championing women www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #skystorians

How do you organise your books? Most book owners... don't Not organised: 45% By size: 19% By genre: 17% Alphabetically, by author: 11% By whether I've read them: 10% By colour: 4% Alphabetically, by title: 2% Other: 6% yougov.co.uk/entertainmen...

Our friends at the Stationers' Company have asked us to help publicise their forthcoming annual lecture on 24 March: 'The Future of Truth: Why we should support Research in the Arts and Humanities' to be given by Dame Judith Macgregor. www.stationers.org/events/detai...

a little rant

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

Burning the Books 2025 style www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

📚 Robert Burns was born #OnThisDay 1759. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1787 Edinburgh First Edition of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" by him. He visited Dunblane same year. This edition has additional 17 poems & 5 new songs, as well as most poems in 1786 Kilmarnock Edition…/👇

So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

John Locke: If you have been very Nice and your parents do not buy you a Nintendo Switch, you have license to replace them with parents who will.

Congratulations!

Fabulous 2-year fellowship at @theul.bsky.social / @theulspeccoll.bsky.social! The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History. Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby

Happy birthday to the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, author of Tale of a Tub, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver’s Travels, and perhaps the greatest satirist who ever lived, born on this day in 1667.

A Brief History of Women Are Too Emotional 🧵

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz 🧵

Can anyone tell us who 'the Ph ---' is/are in Ramsay's ode? #18thcentury #scottishliterature #poetry 🧐

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade: Conference is in November 2025 CfP open until March 2025 museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

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