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! 🎨🎶

A fun visit today to the site of Clonmacnoise monastery with its surviving round tower and decorated high crosses! 🎨

I noticed in a Poirot episode (Dead Man’s Mirror) last night about a modern art collector, his house has a wine window hatch made from Duncan Grant’s 1911 painting Bathing! I think Grant would approve 😂🎨🍷

We had an amazing @amarc.bsky.social visit today to the Royal Library and College of St George at Windsor Castle for tours and displays of archives, mss and artworks, including the Sobieski Hours and drawings by Da Vinci! 🏰🎉

Had a great week showing @rarebookschool.bsky.social students around @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social as part of their Oxford summer schools! 🤗📖

Books, Beer, and Murder! Excited to give this upcoming talk on scribal shenanigans in Medieval Oxford on 14 August in the incredible @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Painted Room, check out the OPT’s event page to join the fun! 📜🍺🗡️🎉 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/event/books-...

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...

Escaped the heat today with a brilliant research trip to @worcestercathedral.bsky.social library! 📜🎉

Happy Midsummer’s Day! Here’s a great scene two noblewomen performing a robardel pastoral dance with musicians and a cheering crowd, from a 14th-cent copy of Jacques Bretel’s Le Tournoi de Chauvency now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 308, f. 123r 🌸🎶

Our curators have described this item as ‘one of the most lavishly illuminated Western Medieval manuscripts to survive’. See it with your own eyes as part of our exhibition, Treasured. Alternatively, explore this MS – and many others – in full, on Digital Bodleian. Shelfmark: Ms. Bodl. 264.

Rock on! For #ManiculeMonday here’s a handy example of a reader highlighting text passages that I spotted in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Laud Misc. 651 📜🤘

Ladies who medieval! A great girls’ day out yesterday to see ‘Medieval Relics’ curated by artist Venetia Higgins and the @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social Siena exhibition! 🎨🎉

A fun #churchcrawling day in the sun from Islip to Noke, then to Beckley in time for Voice Trio’s ‘Medieval Women in Song’ concert for the Oxford Festival of the Arts and performed under the amazing Doom painting! ☀️🎨🎶

A fun @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social research day with this Italian medical manuscript (MS. e. Mus. 19), featuring scenes of surgery, implements, and body diagrams + some ominous page staining from a user! 📜🩻🩺

An amazing talk tonight by Prof Aden Kumler on dimensional realism in medieval manuscripts for Oxford History of Art! 📜🎨🎉

Welcome to the archives.

It’s #InternationalArchivesDay! As @lincoln.ox.ac.uk College Archivist, I get to look after a wide range of records, objects and artworks dating from the Middle Ages to the present day! 📜🎨🎉 Archive catalogue: lincoln.ox.ac.uk/discover/lin... Artwork listing: artuk.org/discover/art...

A rainy morning didn’t stop our fantastic history tour of Eynsham village and its lost medieval abbey with archaeologist Steve Parrinder! 🎉

The amazing @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Treasured exhibition has everything, from incredible manuscripts to sweet personal keepsakes! And a fantastic opening night with a talk by Stephen Fry! 📜🎉

My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material. Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!

So much fun to team up with @lincoln.ox.ac.uk Head Gardener, Mike Hawkins for a special ‘Unlocking the Gardens’ event with tours and an archive display for students, staff, and Fellows! 📜🌺☀️

A fun medieval movie night at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk this evening with Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword! ⚔️🍿🎉

In case of interest, colleagues in the fantastic @ox.ac.uk Dept for Continuing Education are advertising a FT permanent post in the art of the Global South in early modern/modern art and material culture! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

Happy LGBT+ Pride Month from this fun image of goddess Minerva under a rainbow from a 15th-century Middle English anthology of poetry, she is serving knight realness like Chappell Roan! ⚔️🌈 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Rawl. B. 214, f. 199r

A great morning yesterday at the Oxford Summer VIIIs to cheer on @lincoln.ox.ac.uk! Here’s a fun scene of medieval rowing in the margin of @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Bodl. 264, f. 89r 🚣☀️

Got to see @hlaehnemann.bsky.social’s incredible Dance of Death mural today designed by Asbirdman Murals, and it looks extra spooky in my black and white film pics! ☠️🎨📸 #medievalsky

Happy Ascension Day! Had a blast celebrating the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk tradition of ‘pennies from Heaven’ + we got to enjoy amazing views from the College tower! ☀️🎉