Fantastic talk online: Leah Price, speaker for the upcoming 2025 #LyellLectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, gives a sneak preview into Victorian books and their servants. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectures : youtu.be/dty5Qj0Gaeo

Had an amazing day presenting on @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and @lincoln.ox.ac.uk pecia manuscripts at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social Material Matters conference exploring reuse in pre-modern texts, images, and carriers! 📜🎉

Fantastic presentation for #InternationalWomensDay #iwd by Péter Tóth, Curator of Greek Manuscripts, during the Friday coffee mornings, showing seven women of antiquity through papyrus documents @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social youtu.be/ynHDUk2Is5A

Professorship for 'Historische Hilfswissenschaften' (basically: bibliography) advertised @univie.ac.at berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

Hugely exciting to be able to advertise the Professorship in Latin Palaeography at the History Faculty @ox.ac.uk in conjunction with @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, and to join the world's largest community of medievalists @oxmedstud.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/27/j... #medieval #palaeography

Catch a new exhibition in the Voltaire Room tomorrow, with tour from curator Benjamin Micallef. "Representation, and Displacement, in the Avant-Garde" features artists' books from the Taylor and Art Library collections. On display for a limited time, make sure to stop by!

It's a new day at the Taylorian, and a new social media platform 🦋 What to expect? The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian! Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞

Printed Heritage Collections @britishlibrary.bsky.social & Digital Research team are co-supervising a placement on Computational analysis of early printed book descriptions. For humanities people who want to learn about digital research tools. Deadline this Friday! www.bl.uk/more/researc...

Hey just in the spirit of trying everything: as a middle-aged queer who already gets hassled in public loos, returning to the US is looking increasingly scary. I CAN apply to stay in the UK, but need work at a liveable wage. Can teach nearly anything. Research CV as long as my arm. I just need work.

Huge fun yesterday at the Weston Library Coffee Morning @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social with Niko Kontovas lively presentation of #queerlove in #Persian & other #Asian #manuscripts - incl. reading 4 languages & his own rhymed translations! youtu.be/jcyAQhqUBuY - a feast to listen to!

Hallo zusammen! 👋👋 The Associate of German Studies is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates on all things German Studies in the UK, Ireland and beyond. Looking forward to building a vibrant community together here! #GermanStudies #BlueSkyLaunch

This might be of interest for the newly established @ags-gbi.bsky.social account for the Association of German Studies (AGS) in the UK - the first European bestseller, originally written in German, then translated via Latin in many European lanuages

Fantastic Weston Library Coffee Morning @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social with Alyssa Steiner @britishlibrary.bsky.social presenting Ship of Fools, the #earlymodern #bestselling printing sensation, from around Europe #Narrenschiff youtu.be/rwQ69h29lTQ

Essential reading for early medievalists: Julia Smith's new study of the field's history, and perspectives on its future. doi.org/10.1017/ean....

A magical @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Coffee Morning today on early modern alchemy! 📜🎉

Our edition of 'Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen' is now #openaccess available on google books thx to @emmahuber.bsky.social: books.google.co.uk/books?id=oIx... @oxfordgerman.bsky.social #Reformation #pamphlets #Christian #freedom

Exciting addition to the playlist of manuscript presentations from @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social: Dr Péter Tóth, Curator of #Greek #Manuscripts, presents #NewTestament #apocrypha #papyrus #parchment #fragments #codices youtu.be/_tat1NzWXIo

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social What a captivating microcosm this BODcast on the #ARCHiOX Project is! History of science, book history, art history, reflection on the past and future of historical collections, not to mention the digital magic. Highly recommended podcasts.ox.ac.uk/archiox-seei...

History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series 🗓️ Wednesdays 2-3:30pm 🗺️ @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Weston Library

Welcome to 2025 and to a brand new 📯Medieval Booklet📯 ! Hilary is stronger than ever with almost 50 (!!) pages of medieval conferences, lectures, seminars, reading groups, events, and opportunities, ready to view at users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/me.... Which means it's time for... a Big Booklet Thread!

We're sharing some of Bodleian Graduate Trainee, Emma's snapshots from her four months on the job so far! Please check ALT text for more info and follow the link tinyurl.com/9ve2uzk to apply for 2025/26 Graduate Trainee places before 12pm GMT tomorrow.

More of our Bodleian Graduate Trainee's pics from her four months on the job so far. Please check ALT text for full info and follow the link tinyurl.com/9ve2uzk to apply for 2025/26 Graduate Trainee places *before 12pm* GMT tomorrow. Repost to spread the word!

Fascinating detective work by Colin Harris and Andy Wheale @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social identifying the WW1 pilots in a private photographic album of the John Johnson collection youtu.be/IGPpWaoeohk

Now online: Fantastic talk by @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Curator of Chinese manuscripts youtu.be/q7Kkij8fFgs

For @openbookpublish.bsky.social - thx for making the book #openaccess available www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Fascinating talk by Prof. Evanghelia Stead for @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social coffee morning about Aubrey Beardsley & repurposed gargoyles youtu.be/I3k8asSOc-4?...

"Ecologists have reoriented their field as a 'crisis discipline', a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same."

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Are you a BIPOC scholar working on Book History? SHARP is offering 5 Research Development Grants for BIPOC Scholars. Deadline: 2 December 24. I was a recipient & it helped me a lot towards making my DB of literacy traces on marriage licenses. #SHARP #BookHistory #BIPOC sharpweb.org/grants-prize...

Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...

#medievalsky #medieval

Engrossing review in the current issue of the LRB by Tony Grafton of my Oxford colleague Martín McLaughlin’s new book on Alberti (Princeton UP)

Revisiting TORCH recorded Books at Lunchtime. Beautiful presentation by Katherine Sutherland on why modern manuscripts matter. Great for @bkhistox.bsky.social & even #medievalsky @oxmedstud.bsky.social youtu.be/thDS14YXYQc?...

For @bkhistox.bsky.social

My favourite hashtag #notalion coming to bluesky!

A shout out Oxford History of the Book because they asked us very nicely and post very useful blogs

Had a really great time yesterday at the Oxford Digital Festival, representing the Taylor Institution's information skills project, Taylor Editions: editions.mml.ox.ac.uk. I learnt about a huge number of different initiatives. Look out for the event write up and recordings of the main talks!

Are you a graduate student, or do you know a grad student, working on the fragment and histories of colonialism? Please consider submitting an abstract to or circulating the CFP for the Roskil Symposium run by the MA candidates in my department! www.umass.edu/art-history/...

There is a paper story in this painting from 1672: welcome to the shortest thread for #paperhistory in one post only (more in the alt-text) 1 - a paper letter (being moved) 2 - used paper sheets (messy)) 3 - a document bag! (fun) 4 - stored paper sheets (waiting) 5 - waste paper (lying around)

Come on! An ace depiction of a jousting tournament watched over by a woman holding a crown for the victor, it’s serving medieval Challengers 🛡️🎾 From the Romance of Alexander, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Bodl. 264, f. 67r

PSA: Dr Ray's account is one of the best to follow for library lovers and history buffs alike! Alison works in the Bodleian archives with medieval manuscripts every day. She's one of those delightfully curious clever people who is also very funny - and it shows in her posts.

This is an astonishing object, evidence for early ninth century Mercian interests, ambitions and connections. It's been suggested it was placed on an image screen; there's really nothing else like it. It's known as the 'Lechmere stone' & is in private ownership. Images from @AS_Corpus. #medievalsky

It was a brilliant presentation about Rockall Isle! youtu.be/YprOPTWjZ0c

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