New look for @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogs in future, plus access to archived blogs to come this month

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

Here it is! My second copy of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Ring The Hill, after the first one got eaten by Royal Mail. Looking forward to Everything Will Swallow You arriving this week too

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social (not sure how this even works - just spent half an hour cursing over bsky age verification and found I can't DM you anyway)

Looking forward to attending this next week very much. Great model for a conference - 3 afternoons, remote, and very affordable. Real accessibility boost. I heard there are even some places left!

Inspired by the #RBMS26 conference theme, I decided to invest in advocacy by fighting against the algorithmic internet and returning to blogging, and our old friend Tumblr. I intend to compile the news I share here once a week into a big reading list of links like the days of RSS. 📜

@materialwills.bsky.social Enjoying the talks so much it's hard to concentrate on transcribe simultaneously #transcribathon

Wonderful tales of the unexpected in Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban's creative approaches to wills #transcribathon @materialwills.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social

CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky. Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world. Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community. www.cerl.org Give us a follow!

Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

For more on records of historic persecution of the Quakers, see this Quaker Strongrooms blogpost quakerstrongrooms.org/2012/06/06/q...

Saw part of the Curious Cures exhibition on medicine in the medieval world at the opening last night @theul.bsky.social. Now really looking forward to a proper visit soon www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncu...

'Curious Cures...at Cambridge University Library... [results from] a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments, from compendiums of cures to alchemical texts and guides to healthy living.'

And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcP...

Replica Ben Franklin printing press in action today in St Bartholomew the Great Lady Chapel, Franklins's workplace in the 1720s. Part of the Franklin 300th anniversary commemoration www.greatstbarts.com/benjamin-fra...

Just been on an amazing virtual visit to the library of St Catherine's Monastery Mt Sinai. If you missed it, the recording will be available soon on The Bibliographical Society website bibsoc.org.uk

It's the final week of our #MedievalWomen exhibition and we've been working on restoring our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project online. The first manuscripts are now available! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

Interesting new series of blogs from the Natural History Society of Northumbria on Pitmen Naturalists www.nhsn.org.uk/the-pitmen-n...

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading? For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

Interesting PhD placement opportunity to research provenance of Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection at the British Library blogs.bl.uk/english-and-...

Welcome to the official BlueSky for the Cambridge Doing History in Public Blog - We are a postgraduate run blog attempting to bring accessible and engaging history to the public! You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org

This is an excellent account of the crisis the UK's General Medical Council has engineered, by @doctoroxford.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Good morning. Bib Soc is still quite new to Bluesky. Please do help spread the word that we're here. Thank you! #PromotingBookHistory

Nice @smithsonianmag.bsky.social piece on the just-opened @britishlibrary.bsky.social exhibition on #MedievalWomen: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thes... cc: @womenknowhistory.bsky.social #MedievalSky

This will be amazing

Absolutely gorgeous gilt and blind floral tooling on this stonking late seventeenth-century English binding. Appropriately on Cambridge UL’s copy of the great botanical work, Hortus Eystettensis (1613). CUL Tab.b.51.

Thanks for all the responses to my 'why does bluesky work for you' question, I've found it really exciting to read them all and generally be part of a good conversation on an online platform... some of them are quoted in the post above but I wanted to stress I found them all really useful.

Hello BlueSky people - any suggestions for good eating/drinking places, or any other tips for a wet weekend in Bruges?

Just a holding presence for the moment, but please mark your cards: the VCH in all its infinite variety is now here.

Mapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806: 'A dinner book is a written record of who dined at a given location on a given night, and Lady Holland assiduously kept such books to document forty years of her salon.' The books also acted as a diary, ...' blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/...

Published today: Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy, edited by @tanyakirk.bsky.social and myself, with a preface by @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com. A heavily-illustrated volume of perspectives on Fantasy's histories, mysteries and possibilities: shop.bl.uk/products/rea....