A splendid weekend in France.

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project? 3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills. #Medieval #Manuscript

And now Cap Gris-Nez.

At Cap Blanc-Nez, surveying the Channel in glittering sunshine.

Friday night dancing #Fridaynight BL Royal MS 20 A XVII, f. 9r

Dark, damp, but decidedly festive 🎄 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk and @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social looking beautiful in the rain this evening. #UniversityOfOxford #OxfordGLAM

"Her writing about Jewish identity influenced later Jewish thought leaders, while many of her poems are easily read as alluding to a same-sex attraction painfully frustrated by the current social mores, and foreseeing a future where such love was permissible." She committed suicide at 27.

Amy Levy - a Victorian 'girl of genius', who speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library. Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.

Autumn days in Cambridge 🍂 @theul.bsky.social @clarecollege @corpuscambridge.bsky.social looking splendid on a crisp cold day. #CambridgeUniversityLibraries

atel, adj: dire, terrible. (AH-tell / ˈa-tɛl) Image: Bestiary from a didactic miscellany; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 67v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2

We had an early morning visitor in London.

Walking to work.

Do you know the new Clerk of the Parliaments, @dustshoveller.bsky.social?

The red of these anemones has really cheered me up on this miserable day in Dublin! From Hieronymus Bock's 16th century herbal, hand-coloured by an early reader.

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 12th century, Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.4.26, f. 7v

“The Trumpington Cross” Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD The burial of a female teenager. 1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011. Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge #FindsFriday #medieval #archaeology

Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Je suis à la recherche d'iconographie médiévale de souricières ou tapettes à souris. Je suis certaine d'en avoir déjà vu, et je ne remets pas la main dessus ... une idée @lamusee.bsky.social Je travaille sur l'entretien du linge, si, si il y a un lien !

This looks good @dustshoveller.bsky.social

At Beverley railway station, a remarkable survivor from the golden age of the North Eastern Railway still greets travellers, a tiled map set into the wall beside the train shed exit. Made between 1900 and 1910 by Craven Dunnill & Co. of Jackfield in Shropshire, it is

The University Type-Writing Office - such a remarkable story.

The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️

📣 Object now to stop the demolition of Clive Lodge, one of the earliest homes in this leafy part of Ealing! 🧵 Object here to planning application Ref: 253085FUL bit.ly/3Lo8EZH

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark! Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️ tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3

North Wing shadows, @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography

In partnership with the Heritage Council, the #ChesterBeatty is pleased to offer a 12-month internship in book and paper conservation: ow.ly/LJNb50XlIKo #ConservationInternship #BookandPaperConservation #DublinJobs

Today I visited the Museo di Capodimonte in #Naples, which has a stunning collection of Italian paintings.

This (incomplete) silver penannular brooch with ball terminals and pin head was probably made in Britain or Ireland, but found in Råsta, Sweden. Compare this with the thistle-type variant in the Scotto-Scandinavian Skaill Hoard of AD 960-80. My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet & James Graham-Campbell

Here November is the time for building up the fire and smithying. #MedievalCalendar BL Cotton MS Julius A VI; A calendar, computistical texts and tables; 1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century; England SE (?Canterbury); f.8r

@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!

The Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new e-resource: Benjamin Wardhaugh, 'Ancient Greek Mathematics in print, 1475–1703'. This can be downloaded as a PDF file from bibsoc.org.uk/ancient-gree...

Not a bad gate, as abbey gates go.

Funding available for 2 PhDs on the Inventing Futures project at Durham Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. One focuses on early modern gendered violence, the other on utopia. It's a fantastic project with a fabulous team behind it! Come and join! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD428/f...

The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Watch this excellent video of the conservation of a letter by Sir Joseph Banks, 1773. NMCT gave a grant to @josephbankssociety.bsky.social to make this possible; Yeaseul Jung was the conservator (and filmmaker). vimeo.com/1129479950?f...

Christopher de Hamel, expert in medieval manuscripts, gave a 'magnificent' lecture this week on the 13th-century Sarum Master Bible. The packed lecture was at @salisburycathedral.bsky.social, to which FNL donated the Bible last year. The Bible is on display in the Cathedral until 2nd November.

October was a busy time in the medieval agricultural calendar. It was the season to sow new crops, an essential job to ensure a plentiful harvest in the following year. Image: 14th-century East Anglian Book of Hours (CUL MS Dd.4.17). See it in the #CambridgeDigitalLibrary: https://loom.ly/IxlTgO8

🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history! Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community. Deadline: 16 January 2026 womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse... #WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

oh, the Remembering the Reformation team had some lush images, including of slashed books: exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/reformation/.... They should be Cambridge UL objects mostly, so approachable?

In Edinburgh briefly, and a quick pause at sunset to admire the seventeenth-century Tron Kirk, a handsome building.

Just a reminder to register for the CERL Seminar 2025 - “Engaging with Founding Collections in the 21st Century” - on 21 Oct at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free to attend (registration required): [email protected] #bookhistory

If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇

Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Chinese Virginia creeper being spectacularly autumnal at 10 Brookside, Cambridge, former home of Francis Jenkinson (1853-1923), Librarian @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography

Goodness, what an amazing café! Pre-dinner and snack in Lisbon.

In Lisbon, and it’s just as splendidly cranky as I remembered. And glorious sunshine, too.