Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

It’s back!!!

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

One of the perks of waking up early to open the Library: seeing the Wren drenched in gold. ☀️

Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss. #worldmentalhealthday

Reminded by Giuseppe Rollo’s recent chapter that history is never irrelevant…

While it feels like there’s precious little one can feasibly do, the least I can do is back those who are working to shed a little light on the darkness.

Love love love.

Gothic or not -- it's a lovely little book! Thanks for the great thread Carin!! @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

You may have read it before on this account: #earlymodern Europe was a paper age. Let's focus, once more if you fancy, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper. Another 🧵 for #paperhistory nerds, and enjoying #skystorians 🗃️ (1)

Frost and fog and a frozen fountain!

You can thank me later: 🔗 what-is-dh-the-album.netlify.app/vol-01/digit... & 🔗 youtu.be/N000qglmmY0?... (all credit to Philip Allfrey)! #IIIF #WhoNeedsAJobDescription

🚨 Exciting opportunity alert! 🚨 Trinity College is looking to recruit two enthusiastic Graduate Trainees, one to join our Library team, and one to be part of the Archives team. There is still time to apply before the deadline of Sunday 2nd February. For details: trin.cam.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/

Can’t wait to get my hands on this!! Sounds ace!

LAST CHRISTMAS Ich gave thee my hearte But the verye next daye ther came a wolf, Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost - And the wolf stole my hearte, fled To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars. SEEKE NOW my hearte, Return it within a yeare and a daye: Thys ys thy queste!

Ford Lectures! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne! Bet these'll be great! @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

What’s the best thing about working in a library? When gorgeous photographs from an archeological excavation at Nemi in the mid 1880s find their way onto your desk!

Saddened to see this as someone who walked the Camino as a solo woman at 21 who (very luckily) faced none of these horrors. And very very angered that so many have.

We at the London Palaeography Seminar have a special treat for you on Tuesday 12th Nov at 5:30pm - Tessa Webber speaking on 'Punctuation and the aural dimension of Latin texts in the Middle Ages'. In person in Senate House and hybrid. Do sign up: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/punct...

This is a fascinating study. But when you find a Lidar survey of a region, process it with archaeological techniques, and locate an archaeological site, that’s not “an accident”. That’s “an on purpose”. 🗃️

IF YOU'RE IN GEORGIA, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. THE DEADLINE IS OCT. 7 TO REGISTER. YOU MAY THINK YOU'RE REGISTERED AND FIND YOU ARE NOW "INACTIVE." mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

The complete manuscripts collection of Cambridge Queen’s College is now accessible online! 📚 tinyurl.com/4w4yjtzb Medievalsky

Incredible!! I know what I’m doing this weekend!!

Due to Ash Wednesday, only 47 Manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024... Includes a Eusebian Chronical with Sanvito rubrication, a Polyphonic mass by Allegri, some more 17th C texts and more!

A great summary of last week’s Now You See It, Now you Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age. Definitely worth a read:

The vicious cyberattack on the British Library is a national outrage – posing huge challenges for our national library. I argue in this Opinion piece in the Evening Standars that government should be properly funding their complex recovery programme.

Want to know more about the discoveries relating to Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours, now on display in the Wren? This blog post will tell you everything, from the link with Holbein's portrait to how Raman spectroscopy was used to identify the jewels in the binding. Not to be missed! t.ly/ot3RS

New Royal Historical Society blog post on ‘Web access to British Library databases: workarounds for historians’. If you have any info about other relevant resources, there’s a link to submit suggestions too 🗃️

Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...

British Library news (3): English Short Title Catalogue mirror now updated to include post-1700 records. Let's hope that this augurs the full, official release of the ESTC as #OpenAccess estc.printprobability.org #History 🗃️

The best days always begin with #manuscripts!! Lovely details from @trincolllibcam.bsky.social MS R.14.34🔗: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...

the first ever webcam was put online by the university of cambridge in 1993. it was pointed at coffee pot in a room near the computer lab so workers could check how much coffee was left

‘ ‘Twas the night before Christmas [holidays] and all through the house [Library] not a creature was stirring not even a mouse’ - one more working day until the Wren closes for the last time in 2023!!

Thanks for sharing Stephanie (and thanks to Nikolai Vogler for creating such a useful resource)!!

For #ThrowbackThursday we're throwing things all the way back to this recently re-digitised thirteenth-century #beastiary in the #WrenLibrary collection. Check it out the manuscript here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O..., and this great elephant pursuing a dragon on f. 60r!

We are here! Looking forward to building a new community of followers and interacting with you all. We will be posting digitisation updates, glimpses of life in the #WrenLibrary, our own blog posts - of which we are extremely proud!, news of events, beautiful images, and more. Watch this space!

🎉 The Wren Library (and indeed all of the libraries of Trinity College, Cambridge) are now on Blue Sky. Find us @trincolllibcam.bsky.social 🎉

What a lovely idea!!

Following our launch last night (which included a countdown and a big button) Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University is live! Easily search descriptions of Manuscripts & Archives held at the Bodleian and some Oxford colleges, from across 11 online catalogues! marco.ox.ac.uk