This was an excellent event from @peoplespapers.bsky.social and @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social on the Black Radical Press in England in the 1970s - including activists and archivists both. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9E...
I've loved my time with #ArchivesWM! We're a friendly, supportive group and are looking forward to welcoming some new trustees later this year.
A nice surprise for my birthday week: my first ‘proper’ academic publication, for UCL Press / Paper Trails. I hope you enjoy it!
ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...
Not only do I approve of British animals on banknotes, I think we should replace every statue in the land with representations of wise badgers, angry sticklebacks, amusing frogs etc, it would be LOVELY.
Right, we are in this weekend and you have just inspired a plan to buy a bottle of champagne 😆
#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.
Delighted to be in conversation with Colleen Shogan, former Archivist of the United States, for this event @ucl.ac.uk this coming Thursday evening. Some places still left! www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
We are out out at friends - gin and snacks #ConfinedCocktails
A hand holding a copy of University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus, by the Survey of London
Fresh from The Survey of London and @uclpress.bsky.social - This beautiful monograph of University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus. A rich history of UCL's main campus. #ucl200
Interior page of a dance card from the Gaster Collection showing the dances and space for someone to write in agreed dance partners.
Recently we hosted an event celebrating the rich world of Jewish dancing cards round 1900. If you'd like to read more about Jewish dancing cards in our collection, Dr Sonia Gollance has written about their history
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Call for applications!
We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL!
£5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff!
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Glad you bought the wine and memorialise any time you like. We are planning a trip to Lidl for my dad's birthday (please don't ask), which is wierdly appropriate, given his garage resembled the middle isle..
I am very selfless
It was very tiring watching people run in drizzle.
Sunday martinis #ConfinedCocktails. Restorative foe the Barman, supportive for me.
Mmm, crumble...
Cheers #ConfinedCocktails. I have a solo Margarita, as the Barman is doing a half marathon tomorrow and his body is a temple (until tomorrow night).
New to Bishopsgate Institute? We’d love to welcome you through our doors.
Using our archives is straightforward. Register, settle into the Rear Library, and our team will guide you to the material you want to see.
Curious? Plan your visit and start exploring.
I also had the Hostess badge, which involved making a cup of tea for a random person. The Homemaker was crossed keys, I think, and possibly required ironing and hoovering (neither of which I do now)
It's a lot better than the Homemaker badge that I was forced to get and fiercly resented. Even in the 1980s it felt anachronistic!
Even my biscuits are on brand.
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
I think it's UK film, which should be fun (and yes, mad, obv).
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.
Teen taxi tonight #ConfinedCocktails so here is my Gimlet from last night at the German Gymnasium. Child 1 is back for the weekend and the three teens I currently have in the house have just eaten an impressive 32 meatballs between them...
Our friends at UCL are hosting an event examining how archives, libraries, and museums underpin a functioning democracy: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
I don't see the problem here?
I was lucky enough to be taught by Michael in his last year before retirement, what a lovely man he was.
