We had an amazing @amarc.bsky.social visit today to the Royal Library and College of St George at Windsor Castle for tours and displays of archives, mss and artworks, including the Sobieski Hours and drawings by Da Vinci! 🏰🎉

Booking is still open for our Summer event and AGM on 15 July. Schedule below! #BookHistory #ManuscriptMonday #MedievalSky📜

Next AMARC meeting in Windsor, don't forget to sign up Two positions for board membership will be filled: Web editor and Newsletter editor Interested? Check how to apply from our latest newsletter that just arrived to the mailbox closest to you!

🚨Newsletter online🚨 While we’re putting the finishing touches on our next edition, you can catch up on the latest updates in Issue 83 of the AMARC Newsletter. 📬 Read it here: amarcsite.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Booking for the AMARC 2025 Summer Meeting and AGM is now open! 📍Royal Library and Royal Archives at Windsor Castle and St George’s Chapel Archives and Chapter Library 📅 15 July ⏰ 11.00-15.30 See our website for booking info: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

For our current exhibition #UnfoldingTime, we refolded one of our almanacs back into its original medieval ‘bat book’ form. 🦇📖📜 Curious about these fascinating folded books? Watch our new video to learn more about them and the refolding process. 🎥 youtu.be/zZ68dfK5hug #MedievalSky #BookHistory

Register now for this free event @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! 📆Friday 21 March 🕓11am-5pm visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/... For those of you who can't make it to Oxford, the event will also be live streamed. #MedievalSky 📜📖

Register now for this free event @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! 📆Friday 21 March 🕓11am-5pm visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/... For those of you who can't make it to Oxford, the event will also be live streamed. #MedievalSky 📜📖

Registration is open for the Byvanck symposium, hosted by the RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: Medieval miniatures from Byvanck to the RKD 📜 📆 18 March 2025 💻 Hybrid Admission is free, but registration is required. www.rkd.nl/en/current/e... #MedievalSky

It's out! Issue 83 of the AMARC Newsletter is out in the wild, so members, check your post. AMARC members are sent the latest newsletter biannually, with individual membership costing just £10/year amarcsite.wordpress.com/how-to-join 📜📰 #BookHistory #Manuscripts

Now that our next Newsletter is almost ready, we've uploaded our latest issue for everyone to see! Find issue 82 of the AMARC Newsletter here: amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-... 📜🗞️📰📚

There's still time to apply for an AMARC grant. Deadline = this Friday 📜

🚨AMARC GRANT DEADLINE🚨 Just over 2 weeks left to apply for an AMARC grant (deadline 1 November). We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives 📜📚 amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/

Thanks to all those who submitted. Our next newsletter is in the making! 📜📰

Members! You have 2 weeks left to submit your manuscript announcements to our newsletter editors. 📅Deadline 1 October For inspiration on the kinds of news we usually include, take a look at our website, and our past newsletters📜 amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletter/

🚨Exhibition alert🚨 'Her Booke' at Lambeth Palace Library highlights material owned, written, commissioned, and translated by women during the long early modern period 📜📖 This free exhibition will be on display until 21 November www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/...

🚨EXHIBITION ALERT🚨 'Part of the Furniture: The Library of John Bedford' at Leeds University Library until 21 Dec. The exhibition charts the evolution of furniture design over the centuries and the journey from drawing board, to workshop, to home. library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event... 📜

Each of our newsletters includes a list of new accessions - manuscripts acquired by our institutional members 📜📖 Take a look at one of our most recent newsletters to find out more. amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-...

🚨Exhibition alert🚨 'Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480 to 1630' at the National Library of Scotland shines a light on the many intellectual, political, commercial and artistic links between Scotland and other European countries during that period. www.nls.uk/whats-on/ren... 📜

The 'Murder by the Book' exhibition at @theul.bsky.social is in its final month 📚🗡️ Visit before it closes on 24 August www.lib.cam.ac.uk/murderbytheb... 📜

Curious about the types of projects we fund? Check out our 'Past grants' page on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/past-grants/ Next grant deadline 📅 1 November 📜

Just a couple of days left to register for Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World 📜 📍Cork, Ireland 📅27–28 August 2024 Register by 31 July papertrailsiceland.wixsite.com/papertrails/...

A reminder that recordings of two of our past online events are available on the AMARC website 🎥🎥🎥 See our past meetings page for more! amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/pas...

Our Summer meeting has come to an end. A huge thanks to our [email protected], @drdavidrundle.bsky.social, Sheila Sweetinburgh & David Shaw- and to the Canterbury team for hosting us. Keep your eyes open for details of our next meeting 👀 amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

Today is the last day to book onto our Summer meeting at Canterbury Cathedral! See below for booking details 👇

🚨2 days left 🚨 to book onto our Summer meeting at Canterbury Cathedral ⛪📜

🚨Digital MSS Project🚨 The Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) has launched ARCA: a directory of manuscripts, incunabula and antiquarian books kept in libraries around the world Explore the database here: arca.irht.cnrs.fr

We still have some spaces left on our 24 June meeting at Canterbury Cathedral - an event that is open to everyone! See below for more info 👇📜

🚨CFP deadline on 15 June🚨 The New England Medieval Consortium 2024 will take place at Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, on 9 November, with the theme: Books and Transgressions 📚 For more information on how to submit, see: newenglandmedieval.org/upcoming/ 📜

The next Edward Worth Library seminar will take place on 4 July: Giles Mandelbrote (@warburginstitute.bsky.social) 'Exploring the London Book Trade in the Seventeenth Century' 📜 For how to book and a list of the rest of their 2024 lectures, see: edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-eve...

A database of Polish medieval manuscripts - including MSS in Polish repositories, of Polish origin/provenance, lost manuscripts, and fragments - has now launched! Take a look 👀 manuscripta.pl 📜

Booking for the AMARC Summer Meeting and AGM is now open! 📍 Canterbury Cathedral 📅 24 June ⏰ 10.45-16.00 See our website for booking info: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for... 📜

Did you miss our April event on Community Engagement and Special Collections? 📜 The full recording is now online: 📽️ amarcsite.wordpress.com/community-en... Thanks again to our excellent speakers @deegonz92.bsky.social, Mia Ridge, Michelle Castelletti, and Helen Cook

hi @vfo.bsky.social - would you be happy to add us as a GLAMS contributor please?

Our April 2024 newsletter is out in the wild! AMARC members receive printed copies of our biannual newsletter 📰 Interested in joining? Take a look at our website to find out how: amarcsite.wordpress.com/how-to-join/

We're counting down the hours until our Spring online meeting, today at 2pm, where we'll ask a very important question: How can archive and manuscript professionals connect local communities with special collections?

Our Spring 2024 newsletter is in the makings, which means our Autumn 2023 issue is now free for everyone to download! Find all of our past newsletters on the AMARC website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-...

Just one week left until our online Spring meeting Booking details below 👇

A selection of items relating to Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) has been made available online by the National Library of Scotland. See them online at digital.nls.uk/sir-walter-s... 👇

@amarc.bsky.social spring meeting 26 April 2pm BST Community Engagement and Special Collections: How can archive and manuscript professionals connect local communities with special collections? Online and open to all. Book here: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for.... 📜

There's still time to sign up to our online meeting later this month. See below for details 👇

🚨AMARC GRANT DEADLINE🚨 We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives. 📅Deadline: 1 April Read more on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/

Booking is open for our online Spring meeting: Community Engagement and Special Collections 26 April, 14.00-16.30, online See our website for more details: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

🚨EXHIBITION ALERT🚨 'Fantasy: Realms of Imagination' at the British Library is open until 25 Feb - that's just 2 weeks left! youtu.be/4MyOs1t7RnQ?...

Event: The cyber incident at the British Library has called into question our reliance on online systems to consult medieval manuscripts. Join this conversation on the current situation, and on rethinking practices 🕔 5-6.30pm 💻 Wed 7 Feb Online (free) visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/feb24/...

Catch the last 2 weeks of 'Spitting Image: A Controversial History' at Cambridge University Library 📅Closing February 17 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/spittingimage

Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants offer funding for travel and other practical costs, to help curators and archivists undertake collections and exhibition research projects in the UK or internationally. www.artfund.org/professional/get-funding/programmes/jonathan-ruffer-curatorial-grants

🚨Exhibition alert🚨 'Pembrokeshire: Then and Now' displays items from the National Library of Wales' collections at the Riverside cultural centre, Haverfordwest, focussing on the history, legends and art of Pembrokeshire, and currently including manuscript items! www.library.wales/visit/nlw-ev...

The exhibition 'Alphabets Alive!' @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social closes this Sunday. Get there while you still can! 📅Closing 21 January visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/alphab...

Two lectures remain in the 'Handle with Care' short lecture series at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg 📅16 + 30 January 🕑14.15-15.00 CET Book via the link below 👇 www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register/...