Thank you for coming! It was wonderful to get the chance to introduce your students to parts of our collection — We love showing off our rare books & archives!
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Thank you for coming! It was wonderful to get the chance to introduce your students to parts of our collection — We love showing off our rare books & archives!
Photo of a long gallery library with ornate black and gold shelves from the nineteenth century, housing predominantly eighteenth century books.
Another memoir from my trip to the VEC in Rome last month — the beautiful Third Library.
A book in the process of being taken off the shelf — the archivist’s hand is visible. The book is one of a set which all have paper covers printed with a design that resembles small flying insects or perhaps birds in red and green ink. The paper itself is a creamy colour, and the spines visible on the other books in the set have darkened.
Beautiful paper-covered book spotted on my recent trip to the VEC in Rome. 😍😍😍
Stand by for more pics of lovely books from my trip to Rome!
1788 Spanish recipes from Manuela Gonzalez: miel rosada, buñuelos de viento, pan rey, distilled cider. The Pan Rey recipe looks like a recipe for Rosca de Reyes, Three Kings Day cake.
If you have ever wondered why archival photography is 'expensive' please know that to capture 3 images has taken nearly 2 hours.
This is so true!
📣 One week until the deadline for this FULLY FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY 📣
Don't miss this exciting opportunity to pursue a collaborative doctoral award working with the IES & British Jesuit Archives with the excellent @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social, @lucyvinten.bsky.social, & @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
A reminder about this fantastic fully funded PhD opportunity with the IES and the British Jesuit Archives!
Deadline is at the end of this month so don't delay!
Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern
Alert: great opportunity if you are interested in doing a PhD around early book. Salaried (!) Marie Curie Doctoral Research position advertised by the U of Bristol within the exciting “Remediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” project (@rebpaf.bsky.social).
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And it’s fully funded! Feel free to reach out to me and @lucyvinten.bsky.social to discuss the project and the application process #bookhistory #libraries #phd
Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It's great to see how many archives/libraries are partnering with Universities on Collaborative Doctoral Awards, they're a brilliant way to open up archive/library collections to wider audiences
This opportunity with the British Jesuit Archives and @ies-sas.bsky.social looks especially interesting
Come and have a treat with us at the British Jesuit Archive!
—Fully funded PhD opportunity. #BookHistory
Thank you, and I hope it will be a treat for whoever gets appointed to do this PhD! I’m certainly a little envious of them.
Interested in doing a PhD in #BookHistory? There’s a fully funded opportunity to work with the Jesuit rare book collection in collaboration with @ies-sas.bsky.social
Supervised by @Michaelwdurrant.bsky.social, @laurajcleaver.bsky.social and me!
A storage box containing 48 small relics in individual compartments. The relics are jewel-like, with glass fronts.
Some of the recently repackaged relics in the British Jesuit Archive looking like Christmas baubles when you get them out of the attic each year.
Please add me! Thank you!
Rear cover of a small, thick leather bound book. It has a large stamp in the centre, stamps in the corners and elsewhere. Remains of clasps can be seen, and an be amateur repair with sticky tape.
Front cover of a small, thick leather bound book. It has a large stamp in the centre, stamps in the corners and elsewhere. Remains of clasps can be seen, and an amateur repair with sticky tape. The fore edge is gilded.
A beautiful, battered little book from 1606, mended multiple times. #RecentlyCatalogued at the British Jesuit Archive
A dark brown cat asleep in the centre of a very long flagstone and tiled corridor.
Pushkin, the St Beuno’s cat finds the warmest flagstones. Everyone (including a lady in a wheelchair) negotiates round him.
The interior of Caernarfon Castle taken through a hole in the wall. The grass is particularly bright green in the sunlight
Beaumaris Castle reflected in its moat. The water is very still, the sky overcast
Conwy castle on the banks of the River Conwy.
I visited all three castles in the one day!
Photo of the interior of Caernarfon Castle
Photo of Caernarfon castle with a dramatic sky
Photo of Beaumaris Castle reflected in its moat
Photo of the exterior of Conwy castle.
I managed all three!!
Photo of a bay of bookshelves containing older books.
Photo of a large room with a beamed ceiling and a fireplace. On either side of the fireplace are bays of bookshelves containing old books, mainly bound in leather.
Photo of a worktop with 4 old books in the process of being taped up with unbleached linen tape
I’ve just spent the last few days helping preserve the rare books at St Beuno’s in North Wales. Tomorrow is a day off so plan to visit castles — I’m thinking Caernarfon, Beaumaris or Conwy but doubt I can manage all 3. Which to choose?