A fun #churchcrawl to Glendalough, Co Wicklow today! 🍁

In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books. 📬 Sign up for our newsletter at mailchi.mp/historytoday... and we’ll send you the article on Thursday.

Excited to start today in my new role as Collections and Archives Manager at @rialibrary.bsky.social! Looking forward to working with my colleagues and fun projects! 🤗📖🎉

Only on display for two hours per week, it was amazing to see Frederic William Burton‘s painting ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ in person today @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social! 🎨❤️

Thank you so much to my friends and colleagues who came to my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Spooktacular leaving do today and let me match my costume to a medieval bestiary! 📜🐈‍⬛❤️🎉

Thank you @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for a lovely last day in the archives and fantastic guest night with the gang! 😍🎉

Had so much fun with Laure Miolo last week sharing amazing @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts with MSt students as an introduction to the history of the book and palaeography! A blog with videos is now up on their highlights: medieval.ox.ac.uk/between-bats...

A spooky church crawl today to see the amazing transi tomb of Alice Chaucer at St Mary the Virgin Church, Ewelme! ☠️🎃🍁

So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉

Trick or Treat! To mark my last week in Oxford, all Bod-card holding friends and colleagues are invited to a manuscript spooktacular that I’m hosting on Thursday, 30 October at 3pm in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visiting Scholars’ Centre! 🎃👻📜✨

You can ring my bell! Had a great evening bell-ringing with the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers 🔔🎉 Ape ringing bells from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 118, f. 35v

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

A Neo-Gothic dream come true to visit Strawberry Hill House & Gardens today! 🏰🎉

Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.) lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...

Hole-y Books! A fantastic @bodleian.ox.ac.uk lecture and workshop yesterday on early medieval Insular and Continental parchment by Jiří Vnouček for the ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne’ project! 📜🎉

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Got some fun Oxford rooftop snaps on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 400 film! 📸

Enjoyed a fun autumnal day out to @nationaltrust.org.uk Chastleton House and Gardens! 🏰🍁

Spooky season is finally here! This Office of the Dead features a scene of the raising of Lazarus with skull-tacular details ☠️ Book of Hours produced in Italy and dated 1507, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 9, fols. 182v-183r

This week we’re celebrating 50 years of the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk Library! Had lots of fun sharing our historic collections with the College community and we had All Saints Church Tower-themed cupcakes! 📖🎉

An exciting evening at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the opening of the new ’John le Carré: Tradecraft‘ exhibition, featuring materials we have loaned from @lincoln.ox.ac.uk! 🕵️📖🎉

A fun church crawl to Winchester Cathedral today, my highlight was seeing the Winchester Bible under a medieval wall painting of a scribe at work! 😍📜

And lo! An Apocalypse tattoo just dropped, inspired by the imagery of @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 180 and @labnf.bsky.social MS. Fr. 13096! 😇😈

Amazing day raising the roof of the @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social Radcliffe Camera and a fantastic Coffee Morning with John Johnson Curator Jo Maddocks creating a ‘Come Dine with Me’ game around historic menus in the collection! 🎉

A fun evening at Christ Church College and Cathedral, where I gave a talk for the wonderful incumbents’ conference on Oxford medieval scribes! 📜🎉

Go dome or go home! A fantastic @lincoln.ox.ac.uk away day to @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social led by Architectural History Fellow Mark Kirby and the collections team today 🎉

Lomochrome Purple film is tricky to scan, but here are some fun pics taken at @nationaltrust.org.uk Avebury yesterday on my Yashica A medium format camera! The first one is a 3-in-1 layered image 📸🪨

A fun autumnal walk around @nationaltrust.org.uk Avebury and the stones today! 🪨🍂

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

A final morning well spent in Chantilly at the historic Potagers des Princes with all the fun critters! 🪿🌸🐰

An amazing second day at the Très Riches Heures exhibition with a fun tour of the Château de Chantilly! 📜🏰

Fun first morning of a medieval group jolly to the incredible Très Riches Heures and library of the Duc de Berry exhibition at Chantilly! 📜🎉

My first attempt at lipsynching for @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social and now everyone on TikTok thinks I’m the library’s resident witch! 😂📜🪄

This morning we're tittering at your replies to Alison and her necromancer's journal. Yep, this is a spell book, which you can see more of on Digital Bodleian and soon on our social channels: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/3d22...

Sneak peak at exciting upcoming @bodleian.ox.ac.uk content, I always have a blast with our magic social media team! 📜🪄

Dog Days! Fantastic illustrations of the Canis Major constellation appear in these two @bodleian.ox.ac.uk medieval astronomical texts to celebrate #InternationalDogDay! 🐶⭐️

A magical church crawl down the Thames Path to the @visitchurches.bsky.social Church of St John the Baptist, Inglesham with medieval art galore! 🔔🎨

An amazing visit today to @antiquaries.bsky.social Kelmscott Manor, the country house of William Morris and his family! 🎨

Life of a Showgirl! The dance of Salome with swords, from a 12th-century copy of St Anselm’s meditations, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Auct. D. 2. 6, f. 166v 🧡⚔️

Funny Face! Church crawling around Christ Church Cathedral to spot the great carvings in the cloisters and on St Frideswide’s shrine 🤗

Had a great evening chatting about medieval Oxford scribes, books and murder in the amazing @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Painted Room! 📜🍺🎉

A great evening of spooky summer fun with a concert themed on early modern witchcraft by Charivari Agréable in Exeter College Chapel! 👻🎶

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour. #MedievalMonday. 1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554 2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304. 3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764. 4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

Got some fun results yesterday in the university darkroom, and my first time developing 120mm film! 📸

Had a fantastic day exploring @lincoln.ox.ac.uk’s secret spaces today with my fun colleagues for an upcoming project, including the bell tower, a medieval vault, and early modern wall paintings! 🔔🎨

New issue of Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55231 @projectmuse.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social #openaccess @sophiekelly59.bsky.social @themedievaldrk.bsky.social @ana0dias.bsky.social @madpoli.bsky.social

Had a fantastic manuscript girls’ day out to @nmireland.bsky.social’s ‘Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe’ exhibition with curator Matt Seaver! 📜🎉

A rainy but great day out exploring Clonfert Cathedral and Clontuskert Abbey, both with amazing medieval stonework including mermaids! 🧜‍♀️🎨

A brilliant weekend at the Galway International Arts Festival with fun exhibitions as well as great gigs by Sophie Ellis Bexter and the Mary Wallopers! 🎨🎶