Our small Library & Collections team is hiring an FT Museum Collections Manager! β¨ It's an incredible collection to work with, especially for someone with an interest in British history and the development of archaeology. Please share with any museum colleagues who might be interested!
#museumjobs
We have an exciting event in Jan for PGRs, ECRs and those starting out in fields involving the past. Join us in considering how the Society could contribute to early career support by enabling the exchange of ideas and peer support in these challenging times. www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
Photo of Professor David Olusoga OBE
Photo of Dr Ross Austin Burns
Weβre delighted to announce that our Honorary Fellows elected by the Fellowship for 2025 are Dr Ross Austin Burns and Professor David Olusoga OBE!
www.sal.org.uk/2025/11/hon-...
Our annual @antiquaries.bsky.social Collections & Research Day in collaboration with SGS is coming up on 1st Dec! π This exciting programme explores interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, covering 300 years of collecting history.
Book by 24th Nov to join us: www.sal.org.uk/event/crd-25/
Our Library & Collections team at @antiquaries.bsky.social has a vacancy for a fixed-term Loans Coordinator - the closing date is Monday!
Further details & how to apply π
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library
A @antiquaries.bsky.social display of early-printed books on witchcraft, death & the occult just wasn't enough for #halloween, so I also dressed up as an early-printed book. π
#antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history
Want to join our lovely team? We're looking for a Loans Coordinator! It's 21 hours per week for a fixed term (7 months) and the candidate will look after our national and international exhibition and research loan requests. Deadline is 10 November. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
πππ»π¦ Spooky shenanigans are happening 11am-3pm this Friday (and that does mean marvellously macabre early-printed books and broadsides!) π¦π»ππ
A unique opportunity to be a paid maker-in-residence this summer alongside our historic collections! π¨πΌππΏ
#art #sculpture #creativearts #decorativearts #makerinresidence #magnacarta #exhibition #museum #library #rarebooks #history #collections
βͺBooking closes 9 June for our conference on the intersections of text, materiality & performance, w/ papers exploring objects, clothing & bodies in performance spaces. www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/ @crems-york.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Still time to apply for the Head of Collections (Library, Archives & Museum) job at @antiquaries.bsky.social. Closes this Sunday night! www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#lisjobs #museumjobs #archivejobs #heritagejobs #library #archive #museum #collections #heritage #rarebooks #specialcollections
ESTC IS BACK! π Now hosted by CERL. A happy day in library land, rejoice! π
#rarebooks #specialcollections #library #estc #bookhistory #broadsides #earlyprint #printedbooks #incunabla
datb.cerl.org/estc/
Brill - should be going up on the CILIP jobs board as well shortly.
@ciliprarebooks.bsky.social one for your followers? π
π’Dream job alert! π¨ You could lead our small & friendly team at the Antics and work with one of β¨the bestβ¨ special collections in the country! Happy to answer informal questions about SAL / the library. Please share amongst your networks of #library, #archives & #heritage professionals! π
Donβt remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but itβs great
Fakes and forgeries out on display today at @antiquaries.bsky.social for our April Fool's themed Open Friday π Including real medieval pilgrim badges and Victorian 'Billy and Charley' forgeries!
#fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries
Some of our @antiquaries.bsky.social treasures out on display for our special "Illuminated" Open Friday today β¨ππ Open until 4pm!
As part of our spring illuminations celebration tomorrow I've also been looking for modern books to show alongside the medieval orginals. These 1860s books on Illuminating are like works of art in their own right, with decorated gold bindings & wood-engraved or chromolithiographed plates.
A page from the Lindsey Psalter showing an illuminated B initial with small scenes of musicians around it.
Join us this Friday to celebrate the arrival of spring weather and longer, lighter days in style. This free drop-in event includes creative demonstrations, a display of illuminated texts from our special collections, musical performances and plenty of shiny surprises.
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
If you're in central London this Friday with time to spare, pop into @antiquaries.bsky.social for a special open day on β¨illuminations!β¨ I've prepared a display of some of our most beautiful manuscripts & printed books for the occasion - it's going to be fabulous! π¨ππ
www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...
You know you're amongst good company when you receive an enquiry from a librarian in Australia, asking about how the binding of one of our 18thC books compares to their copy, and the reply comes back "...of course, yours is a presentation copy (hot dΝaΝmΝnΝ...)" π
#librarylife #rarebooks #bookbinding
Happy birthday to the 3rd revision of Magna Carta, 800 years old today! πππ₯³ (yes, we are having cake to mark the occasion - appropriately distanced, of course!)
#magnacarta #magnacarta800 #magnacarta1225 #specialcollections #archives #manuscripts #medieval #medievalhistory #socantiquaries
From the latest @britishlibrary.bsky.social newsletter... not a manuscript! Of all the places who'd mix those up... π€π
#earlyprint #printed #rarebooks #broadside #print #16thcentury #tudor
Excited to say I'm one of the speakers at this year's Broadsides Day, taking place at Cecil Sharp House on 22nd February. I'll be talking about @antiquaries.bsky.social's collection of 19thC Cork ballads, now catalogued after a mere 150 years. We got round to it eventually! π
#ballads #broadsides
A highly-decorated gold-tooled binding, in brown calf, of a printed book from 1580.
The last leaf of an open book from 1580; the left is printed, with the inscription "Lucy Strong her booke" written on either side of the printer's mark (woodcut). The right side, a blank endpaper, has five coloured drawings of fruits (pears, blackberries, plums or damsons) with leaves attached to the stems.
The title-page of "The treasurie of the French tong: teaching the waye to varie all sortes of verbes" by Claudius Hollyband, printed in London in 1580. The endpaper on the left side has a coloured drawing of what looks like a broom (ie. twigs bundled at one end) pointing upwards.
This week's surprise book find @antiquaries.bsky.social: a lovely gold-tooled copy of a 1580 handbook of French verbs, with these charming 18th-century coloured drawings of fruits (and a broom?). Perhaps those of Lucy Strong, who signed "her booke" at the back.
#herbook #rarebooks #printedbook
How long did it take you part time, dare I ask?
A lot of hard work and dedication, I imagine! π I've seen two really interesting libray-related LAHP PhDs come up recently but I absolutely couldn't hack it working full time. Maybe when I retire π
An aerial view of the round plot of Avebury and its henge.
The #Avebury #henge complex is one of the most impressive in Britain. #Stukeley first visited the site in 1719, his interest aroused by reading John Aubreyβs suggestion that the Ancient Britons were responsible for building the stone circles.
Many congrats Dr Sims! π₯ (I'm in awe of anyone who does a PhD around their job!)
