Fabulous to see ‘The Camera Helps’ our new show @bodleian.ox.ac.uk that marks the arrival of the archive of the late great photographer Paddy Summerfield into the collection. Superbly curated by Alex Schneideman and Patricia Baker-Cassidy. Presented as part of PhotoOxford 2025!

This Friday 10th October 15:30-16:45 in the Weston Library, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese & co-curator Jessica Douthwaite will give a talk on their @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition on John Le Carré visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lecarre #JohnLeCarré #SpySky

If you haven't been to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Tradecraft exhibition yet it is well worth a visit. Splendid to behold! Thanks to Richard Ovenden, co-curators - Federico Varese and Jessica Douthwaite and Mick Herron.

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Read The Independent's review of our new John Le Carre exhibition: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

this looks cool @tepizep.bsky.social @jakichu.bsky.social @docjanicel.bsky.social @hcandler.bsky.social @nancyterhune.bsky.social @11tulips.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! We are the Bodleian Social Science Library (or SSL for short) & are part of @bodleian.ox.ac.uk supporting staff & students in the Social Sciences Division at Oxford Univ. Follow us to learn more about our collections & services & to be kept up to date with all the latest SSL news.

Spooky season is finally here! This Office of the Dead features a scene of the raising of Lazarus with skull-tacular details ☠️ Book of Hours produced in Italy and dated 1507, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 9, fols. 182v-183r

In person & online! A talk about our newly opened exhibition 'John Le Carré: Tradecraft': visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/... Co-curators Jessica Douthwaite & Federico Varese & the Bodleian's Head of Public Engagement will discuss JLC's archive & the development of this exciting exhibition

Are you an incoming Oxford University student? Libraries will play a big part during your time at Oxford, so during 0th week we’re offering 30-minute webinars to introduce you to the Bod and how we can help you. For more information: new.ox.ac.uk/bodleian-lib....

Pinch, punch, it's the first of the month. And here's your medieval Labour of the Month, courtesy of a 13th century psalter:

What an incredible screening and round-table discussion we had in Oxford at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in the UK last week. Our film hero librarians @librarianjones.com and Julie Miller, shared their personal experiences on the frontlines in the US & imparted their wisdom to leading UK librarians.

An exciting evening at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the opening of the new ’John le Carré: Tradecraft‘ exhibition, featuring materials we have loaned from @lincoln.ox.ac.uk! 🕵️📖🎉

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

New books at the Vere Harmsworth!

Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible. Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos

If you’re joining Oxford University this term: congratulations! We’d like you to meet Ant. Ant is the Bodleian’s Associate Director for Academic Library Services, and Keeper of Collections: www.instagram.com/reel/DPCJKLe...

Really good news!

On the blog today - a new book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing which is perfect for any booklover - Looking After Your Books! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/i...

Service update: the Bodleian Old Library and Gladstone Link will close at 6.30pm today because of an emergency lighting failure. The Radcliffe Camera will remain open until 9pm as usual but may only be accessed from Radcliffe Square, not via the Bodleian Old Library. Thank you.

Our database of Queen Victoria's Journals is now back online and available to internet users in the UK: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account....

Are you interested in digital collections, policy management,, outreach & training? Then you could be our next Digital Preservation Officer! Digital Preservation Officer (Maternity Cover). Closes 26 Sept 12:00. Apply: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs.

Yesterday marked the start of the Autumn equinox, but we were busy celebrating #MedievalMonday. We hope this beautiful photo of the Radcliffe Camera, framed by the autumnal leaves of Exeter College gardens makes it up to you.

“When I strapped on my stylish wooden stilts-for-shoes this morning and ate a large breakfast, I may just have forgotten how tricky it would be to get to the privie in haste in the afternoon.”

"I have to copy how many more tomes, did you say?"

"Yeah and there's a reason Mark, Luke, and John already finished their carvings. It's not my fault I have more letters to do"

The rules are RIGHT HERE!

Do YOU suffer from painful halo-induced bags under the eyes? The rocking, comfortably padded MatthewMatic FlexiFootstool™️ can help!

In honor of Sept 23, my caption is: Guys? GUYS? Hey where did everybody go?

Caption this!

So pleased to be able to help, Lucia! We will pass this kind message on to the team who run Scan and Deliver.

Time for another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @debbietheduck.bsky.social on C19 #European #post roads, with an intriguing publishing backstory. Learn more about the "disappearing engraver" at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social @maproomblog.com @mapsmania.bsky.social

📚If you’re about to start at Oxford, we hope to become some of your favourite places 📸😉 The Bod isn’t just one library — it’s over 25, with millions of resources. It’s also a Legal Deposit Library, which means it holds (nearly) every item published in the UK and Ireland. 🤯

📢Booking is now open for two free events! 24 October - The Two Beginnings of Kafka's The Castle with Dirk Oschmann tinyurl.com/3bwuvnjk 7 November - How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science with Aaron Schuster tinyurl.com/4sa3d9n2 ⏰5pm 📍Taylorian, Oxford #franzkafka @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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dunno who needs to see this but medieval necromancy journal

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

Photographs by DPhil Scholar Umair. For more of his work: www.instagram.com/umairatoxford/.

'Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning' excerpt from Rain, by Raymond Carver.

John Leland, antiquary, chaplain & librarian to Henry VIII, pioneer of English local history & bibliography, born #OTD 1502; his records of antiquities & monastic libraries informed Camden’s Britannia. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk | Burgerbibliothek Bern

So enjoyed being in conversation with the great Ian McEwan in the Sheldonian last night for the launch of his 19th novel ‘What we can know’ in which @bodleian.ox.ac.uk features prominently! It is a brilliant book (from @jonathancape.bsky.social) and available from @blackwelloxford.bsky.social!

This video is too long for Bluesky but for those interested in cataloguing, library mistakes, and 14th or 5th century manuscripts: www.instagram.com/p/DJY84fNt2w...

Congratulations to our wonderful friend of the School Lanisha Butterfield who has been awarded 2025 Wainwright Prize Children's Book of the Year: Flower Block 🌻📖🏆👏🎉 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk www.countryfile.com/reviews/book...

Congratulations to our multi-talented Head of Comms and inaugural winner of the Children's Wainwright Prize Book of the Year, Lanisha Butterfield, and illustrator Hoang Giang. Flower Block is “a love letter to [Lanisha's] working-class childhood". Read more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s....

Last few tickets remaining for Blackwells' Ian McEwan event with @richove.bsky.social at the beautiful Sheldonian Theatre this Saturday. All ticket purchases include a copy of McEwan's new book, 'What We Can Know'. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...

The Radcliffe Camera: beautiful since 1737. With thanks to student Shabnam Taghiyeva for the video.

Don't forget: this weekend as part of Oxford Open Doors 2025, the Bodleian Libraries will be opening up some of our spaces and showing off collections not usually accessible to the public. More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...

Time for another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog by @stuartackland.bsky.social, exploring the career of Dutch polymath Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611). Itineraries, the mapping of what became #Indonesia, and even espionage feature prominently. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

Slightly diminish a book The Thief's Safe Bet