Card from the autumn "suit" of the Astronomia playing card deck, 1829. Featuring 3 other seasonal suits the pack was used to play two games — Conjunction and Combination — which were trumps-based, similar to Whist. More images of the cards here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #autumn

"How do I write a poem about resilience— how many times will I be asked to write a poem, a song, a prayer, a sermon, a land acknowledgment, an obituary— about resilience?" —Danielle Emerson alocasia.org/2025/08/15/d...

Loved doing this recently, looking forward to more opportunities to #commonplace

Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.

As we tunnel into autumn, time to take stock. We have held two lovely workshops this year and talked to over 30 keen commonplacers, which has given us confidence in this method of marshalling fragments of paper in fragments of time. @katecaoimhearthur.bsky.social @lizajthompson.bsky.social

"Commonplacing" at Queen's University Belfast with @leoniehannan.bsky.social. Allowing for more connections and reflection during the the Public Histories Annual Conference! @commonplaces.bsky.social

A plan for knocking your sprawling manuscript into shape - @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social & @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/s... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writingtips #memoir #storytelling #skywriters

We are delighted to announce the shortlisted authors for The Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI) Prize, sponsored by Arts Council England, ALCS, Professional Writing Academy and Drusilla Harvey Memorial Fund 🧵

📢 Independent presses! Amplify your submission calls monthly through our directory. A small admin fee (£3) supports our community hub. Get featured here: thebrokenspine.co.uk...

@imaginebelfast.bsky.social event 'Making Meaning through the Miscellaneous' with @lizajthompson.bsky.social and @leoniehannan.bsky.social is starting in just a few minutes @crescentarts.bsky.social... Can't wait to meet our participants! #ImagineBelfast

Getting prepared for our @imaginebelfast.bsky.social workshop this Sunday at the Crescent Arts with @leoniehannan.bsky.social and @lizajthompson.bsky.social (imaginebelfast.com/event/making...) - get ready for basic books and big ideas! #ImagineBelfast

In celebration of International Women's Day, Imagine! is proud to feature events that highlight women's voices and experiences. Join us from 24-30 March to celebrate and support women's contributions to society. Explore the full festival lineup: IMAGINEBELFAST.COM #ImagineBelfast #IWD2025

Inua Ellams will be appearing as part of this year's Imagine Festival with his solo show Search Party, at the Crescent Arts Centre on Friday 28 March. Don't miss out! Get your tickets at imaginebelfast.com/event/inua-e...

‘Having a linguistic superpower on the doorstep helped to form a uniquely English set of linguistic neuroses, but over the last century the situation has reversed.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Look at what has landed in Belfast - the wait is almost over! This week, we unveil the programme for our 2025 edition - 7 days and over 120 events to help you make sense of a crazy world. #ImagineBelfast

‘It’s in the technology of writing that we’ve preserved our boldest, most original thought, our best jokes and most generous comfort. To fail to do everything we can to help children hear that song is a cruelty.’ Katherine Rundell on children’s literature www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hello Bluesky! 📢The Imagine Festival is BACK! 🎉 Get ready for a week of talks, inspiring performances, and thought-provoking discussions from 24-30 March. Follow us here for the latest updates on our 2025 events. Let's imagine a better future, together! #ImagineBelfast #Imagine25

So, today went well - many small, simply constructed booklets were produced. Next time we'll be hearing from @lizajthompson.bsky.social about different ways of understanding this fragmentary form.

the ideas – so jagged & hard to make out, fall – until it’s just voices, two voices, you’d think you cld see them so sharp is their muttering, so eager their articulation of right of wrong ‘The Falling’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Getting ready to practice our commonplace book-making skills ahead of our #ImagineBelfast festival workshop @ Crescent Arts at the end of March. Check out the programme: imaginebelfast.com/about-the-fe...

We’re prepping our next exhibition about Cornish gardens & gardening - ‘What will summer bring?’. Includes items from the collections, like work by artists inspired by gardens, stories of plant hunters & designs from an early landscape gardener! Opens 25 January! kresenkernow.org/event/what-w...

‘Locke’s show arrives at a cultural moment very different from 1985 or 2011. Where Paolozzi and Perry celebrated magic and the mystical, Locke seeks to demystify.’ Esther Chadwick on a response to empire at the British Museum: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC 📷 @romtoronto.bsky.social 🏺

Love stitch repairs in manuscripts. This is one of ours from the 1560s, although not nearly as impressive as @uoyborthwick.bsky.social

When I say I remember nothing I mean what being nothing is: within density, without form. My mind has de-scripted what happened. I was forced off the road. It is unwritten down. ‘Outside the Work’, a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just like its subject, the Morgan Library's exhibition on Belle da Costa Greene is fascinating, beautiful, and complexly tinted with both pain and hope. Highly recommend! www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...

Our story of the week is Cold Weather Protocol, by Erin Striff. @erinstriff.bsky.social forgelitmag.com/2024/12/16/c...

#UCDAdventCalendar2024 Theme: manuscript, text, typography 16. UCD Special Collections A dazzling cover page from an edition of 'A Celtic Christmas' (1902).

He may be better known as a pioneering surgeon but James Syme also had an excellent eye for Dutch tiles! Our fireplace tiles originally adorned the fireplace of Syme's consulting room in his Minto House surgical hospital in Edinburgh, which he opened in 1829 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #WarmFire.

We have an unusual fireplace for a #WarmFire on the first-floor drawing room at #RedHouse #Bexleyheath, the home of designer and artist William Morris. The Latin inscribed above it translates as ‘Art is forever, life is short’. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

'Kitty, take these three books to the library, get Mr Brown to change them - tell him I'm fond of the ROMANTIC' A charming C19th little pencil sketch of a library-loving lady and her little cat by a #WarmFire, found in a Victorian scrapbook. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A view of the world from #Stirling c 1800 From our #Chapbooks collection (Res M 970.M2)

Lovely to see material from our collections on display at London Transport Museum's 'How to Make A Poster' Exhibition. Left: 'Hand In Your Greetings' draft artwork & final poster by FHK Henrion Right: 'Buy Stamps in Books' by HA Rothholz More about the exhibition: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/visit/museum...

Just happened upon this Bread Symphony project: www.katyarozanova.com/sound-object... Which reminds me of Sophia Roosth's "Screaming Yeast": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

We also offer this fireplace along with 17th century ceiling at Hall Place #Bexley. At the time of the 1662 Hearth Tax #HallPlace had no fewer than 29 hearths! #WarmFire #ArchiveAdventCalendar

New exhibition in Anarcha's Gallery! "Ode to Gy(n)a" is a mural project created in collaboration with Skaped. It is a bold and thought-provoking exploration of bodily autonomy, identity, and collective empowerment. Free admission, plan your visit now: www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/visit

In 1911 the Hamlet Lane School, now known as Glebe Junior School, in South Normanton, celebrated Christmas with plum puddings made by staff and pupils, bringing some #ChristmasSparkle to the school. #EYAFestive #ArchiveAdventCalendar

For our Books of the Year series, Moniza Alvi recommends The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish, published by Bloodaxe.

For his Books of the Year recommendation, Philip Gross has chosen Henrietta's Library of the Whole Wide World by Lydia Harris, published by Blue Diode.

We’re looking forward to celebrating our prize winners on Thursday!

Temporary staff including students busy at work in #Bexleyheath Sorting Office in 1953. #ChristmasCards #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Who doesn't enjoy a good Victorian pun? We certainly do 😄 Can you work it out? If not, the explanation is in the alt text. #ChristmasCards #EYAFestive #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Looking forward to the next editions of Poetry News and The Poetry Review? Follow the link for an exciting preview of what's to come this winter👀: bit.ly/3D055Vc

Please join us on Thursday, December 12, at 4pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Jonathan Diaz and Allison Krupp, with judges Paisley Rekdal and Kelly Link. Zoom address in post below. 1/2

How’s that holiday shopping going, #Americanists? #JournalPanorama is here to help on the penultimate day of our #AHAATakeover. Let #BookReviews be your guide, beginning with Embroidering the Landscape by Andrea Pappas (Lund Humphries), reviewed by Elizabeth Bacon Eager. bit.ly/4gll3b2 1/4

Up next in the Books of the Year series is a recommendation from Young Critic Sylvie Jane Lewis: ways to say we're not alone by Simon Alderwick, published by Broken Sleep Books.

From HMML's recent digitization projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this is the first manuscript to be cataloged and made live in HMML Reading Room (FMSB 00002): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/... Collection of Franjevačke Klasične Gimnazije, Visoko, Profesorska Knjižnica: hmml.org/collections/...