Fakes, Forgeries and Stolen Books This course is designed to equip students with a skillset to identify fakes, and provide a historical overview of their production from the early modern period to the present day.

A great course with spaces still available during week two of #LRBS26, designed to equip students with the necessary skillset to identify fakes

Get your tickets by 31st May 2026 👉️ buff.ly/ijaSo3a

#rarebooks #LRBS26

History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections.

Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

Thank you to @thefnl.bsky.social for this fantastic book: The Essayes, or Morall and militarie discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne, … new done into English by John Florio, 1603. Donated from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the Nations’ Libraries.

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Late Medieval Seminar

The @ihr.bsky.social Late Medieval Seminar series for autumn 2025 is now published. Themes from ladies in waiting to the custom house, and a roundtable on editing sources. All seminars are hybrid (or fully online), also, I'm now one of the convenors! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Poster giving details for this year's Plume Lecture to be given by Dr Sophie Butler from UEA on Saturday 27 September at the URC, Maldon, 7pm. Title: Unfinished Histories.

We're looking forward to hosting Dr Sophie Butler for this year's Plume Lecture on Saturday 27th September. Join us if you can!

Title page of James Howell, A German Diet, London 1653

Title page of Robert Wittie, Scarbrough Spaw, London 1660

Title page of John Nalson, A True Copy of ... the Tryal of K. Charles I, London 1684.

Thank you so much to @thefnl.bsky.social for funding the purchase of these three books as replacements for those missing from Plume's collection!

Stig Abell, Journalist and Times Radio Presenter with Library staff

On 8 June we put on a special exhibition about "Crime" (inc religious crime, witchcraft, financial crime, high treason, impeachment, etc) for visitors to The Essex Book Festival's series of talks at Maldon Town Hall. Many visitors, inc @thestigabell & Seona Ford, Former Chair, Essex Book Festival.

Thomas Plume's Library hosts “Bookscapes” event for graduate students Thomas Plume's Library hosted PhD candidates for research on early modern books, exploring diverse topics and experiencing various libraries in Essex.

Local news story on our Essex Libraries Bookscapes Event: maldon.nub.news/news/local-n...

Yes - we can see it now! Thank you :-)

Ownership signature on title page.

Today's palaeography challenge: what is the name of the previous owner? James [?]. The book is De Baeza Ponferradiensis, Soc. Jesu Theol. Commentariorum Agoricorum, Lyon 1635.

Coloured in title page of Hugo Herman's Pia Desideria.

Title page of Hugo Herman's Pia Desideria (Antwerp 1632). All the plates in this book are coloured in. If you would like to study any of Thomas Plume's books, please email us to book an appointment. Contact details and catalogue available on our website www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk.

View from roof of St Peter's Tower towards the estuary

View from the roof of St Peter's Tower showing the roof of the Plume Building and the High Street side of the garden/graveyard.

Panorama view from the roof of St Peter's tower, showing a couple of sections of the roof turrets and the roof of the Plume building below.

Views from the top of St Peter's Tower (part of the Plume Building) taken by a colleague at Maldon Town Council who went up there yesterday to check the structure.

Thomas Plume's Library is now a member of the Association of Independent Museums aim-museums.co.uk

Presented for your consideration: A hybrid book! A manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers (written in Germany at the end of the 15th c.) bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest (printed in Augsburg in 1519). (Ms. Codex 1604)

🔗: bit.ly/3Xd1Voy

Full page woodcut: The description of Doct. Cranmer, how he was plucked downe from the stage by Friers and Papistes for the true confession of his faith.

Title page

A Preface to the Reader.

The Friends of Thomas Plume's Library have recently funded the purchase of another of our missing books: Thomas Cranmer's An Answer ... Unto a craftie and sophisticall cauillation, London: Printed by John Daye... 1580.

In sunny Colchester for the latest @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop (run out of @memsunikent.bsky.social) to see some of the delights in @universityofessex.bsky.social Special Collections.

Day 2 of the @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes and we are in the historic town of Maldon to see Thomas Plume's Library under the expert guidance of Dr Helen Kemp.

Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.

Bookscapes, which is run by @memsunikent.bsky.social (and funded by CHASE), is organising its next workshop: a two-day visit to historic collections in Essex. Do drop a line to Bookscapes (or DM me) if you want to join us:
blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...