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The snowdrop is a messenger of the seasons, the darkest moment of winter has passed. It is a messenger of hope. #January1st #NewYearsDay Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Single Snowdrop, 1777 #womensart

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Canberra WE139 in RAF museum. Winner of the 1953 UK-NZ air race. My father was ground crew on this aircraft for the Cocos Islands - NZ leg. It’s taken me a long time to make this pilgrimage, Dad. Thanks to my good friend @adbryanlegacyfan.bsky.social for coming along today.

Breakfast with the Birds, 1934 by Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter, #womensart

“Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” - Frida Kahlo #Womensart

The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping

This is only Monday, by Wednesday, every surface within 100 feet of a butcher's shop in Scotland will be occupied by a steak pie

How I’m walking out of 2025. (It’s been a good Christmas).

#OTD in 1925. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-... Winnie-the-Pooh at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098 #books #literature

December rose.

Christmas card from Eimhir Ni Uadall (Emily Weddall) to Eamon de Valera, December 1916. The card is beautifully drawn and painted, presumably by Ni Uadall. A member of Cumann na mBan, she is buried beside the republican plot at Glasnevin.

Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice #December21st #ArtAdvent

Tolkien's FIRST book – and a bibliographical curiosity to boot. We've just listed a 1922 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's A Middle English Vocabulary (his very first publication), bound with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose. The twist? This copy has a title-page variant…

Hand-coloured mistletoe from a 16th century herbal. Do people still hang it much in their homes over Christmas?

“How many shopping days left till Christmas ?!?” - 1440, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.917, p. 245

Inspired by @annewelsh.bsky.social to tackle some cataloguing backlog this afternoon!

Really looking forward to more from #NAGWebinarWeek tomorrow w/ What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? w/ @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. booking info: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ - free & open to all I feel like it might open a can of shelf un-ready worms!

Tomorrow: NAG Webinar Week - What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Tomorrow: Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press & the University Library working together. Free webinar 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

The Early-Bird window for the MDG Conference 2026 #MetaFutures closes on 14/11/25! Our programme is looking great: bit.ly/47KFNpG We have sessions on #AI and #cataloguing, #training & #management, #collaborative #metadata, #LinkedData #openaccess & #research plus a whole day on #RDA! Don't miss out!

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together. Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November. Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics

Poet Wilfred Owen died #OTD in 1918, a week short of the Armistice: this is the statue of him in his home town, Oswestry. Britten used Owen's poetry in his 1962 War Requiem and the following year Owen's brother Harold sent him a manuscript of Wilfred's "Anthem For Doomed Youth" in appreciation.

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…

I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.

Fall of the Leaf, 1934 By printmaker Sybil Andrews (Canadian (born England) Color linocut on Japanese paper #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Thanks Anne - we are looking forward to co-presenting with MUP on the successful collaboration between the University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press to produce, enhance, and disseminate high-quality book metadata. - nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #metadatamatters #NAGwebinarweek

I am so excited for #NAGwebinarweek 🤩 Two metadata / cataloguing sessions: @emmabooth.bsky.social and Beth Price (@uomlibrary.bsky.social) and @manchesterup.bsky.social on Wed 19th and me on Thursday 20th. FREE and open to all: nag.org.uk/events/ 🙏 to Jennie Hillyard and the Executive Committee🤩

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is: Exhibition catalogues for newbies to art collections and/or cataloguing! Presenters: Amy Staniforth, Yamuna Ravindran & Margaret Robinson. Tuesday 28th October 13:00-14:00. Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #cataloguing #metadata #libraries

Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is "Linked data, Ontologies & Entity reconciliation" with Fran Frenzel, 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1) on Thurs 16/10/25. Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #metadata #linkeddata #cataloguing #training

The first webinar in our Practical Cataloguing series today! MDG Chair Will Peaden will present "Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing" at 13:00 (GMT+1) If you have registered but have not received a link to join the webinar please contact [email protected] We will do some live posts here.

The latest issue of Catalogue & Index is out. Some really great articles by colleagues - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... 🙏 C&I editors Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel for including my checklist for non-Marc cataloguing - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #cataloguing #cataloging #metadata

@georgetakei.bsky.social is the 2025 Honorary Chair of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5–11), joined by youth advocate Iris Mogul. Together they’ll spotlight the harms of censorship. https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/legendary-actorauthoractivist-george-takei-named-honorary-chair-banned-books-week-2025

Frida Kahlo, 1937 by fashion photographer Toni Frissell #womensart

The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world.... #WomensArtHistory

The 'liber divinorum operum' of St Hildegard of Bingen, c1500, in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library. Hildegard was a C12 abbess, mystic and composer whose work has become remarkably popular in recent years. She was canonised in 2012, and today is her feast.

A detail from: “The White Rose and the Red Rose” the 1902 panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. A beautiful print to be enjoyed always: duille.com/whiteroseturin

On this, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, a c1500 woodcut depicting St Bridget of Sweden venerating the crucifixion. Photographed in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library, London.

It was a pleasure to have Prof Karen Snow, Carissa Chew @carissachew.bsky.social, Dr Karen Pierce @darklecat.bsky.social, & Helen Griffiths @helgriff.bsky.social presenting on Cataloguing Ethics as part of a our AGM Event yesterday. Thank you to all the speakers and attendees (online & in-person).

South London's best-loved bookshop was heaving today. Bought some much-needed books, obviously.

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.