The Lyell Lectures 2026 The 2026 Lyell Lectures, hosted by the Bodleian Libraries and delivered by Professor Mercedes García-Arenal

Roll up, roll up for the 2026 Lyell Lectures! These will be given by Prof Mercedes García-Arenal on 'Muslim Books in Christian Hands: From Iberian Moriscos to Early Modern Europe' @bodleian.ox.ac.uk on 28, 30 April, & 5, 7. 11, May at 5pm. Free, but book! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

Actually this time does not appear to be the result of bot activity, but the storage infrastructure. Should now be resolved ....

Congratulations on your retirement Martha!

Sadly not - but next door in Blackwells ...

‘Amazing’ unseen photos by Cecil Beaton and Lee Miller unearthed The wartime images, processed and printed by the photographers’ assistant Roland Haupt, have been described as an ‘empirical time capsule’

Our newest photographic acquisition highlighted in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...

Thanks Zachary. The @bodleian.ox.ac.uk quartos content (esp from the Malone collection) is being moved onto our digital.bodleian platform. You can find a few of the quartos there now, much much more to come before the summer. Not sure about the content from other libraries on the BL’s platform.

And not just Thames and Hudson. Other refugees included those who founded publishing houses such as Andre Deutsch, Paul Elek, Wiedenfeld and Nicholson and Phaidon.

I review ‘The art of the book’, the new history of @thamesandhudson.bsky.social in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social. It is a superbly illustrated volume - celebrating high quality-book making that brought ideas, art & culture to a wide audience at affordable prices. A gorgeous book!

How Thames & Hudson brought art to the masses | The Observer The Art of the Book reveals how, over 75 years, the publisher has changed the way we think about culture

My review of 'The Art of the Book' which celebrates the 75th anniversary of @thamesandhudson.bsky.social is in @theobserveruk.bsky.social. It is a sumptuous book about the power of books (& the power of reading): & a publishing house as a cultural institution. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Vielen Dank, dass Sie auf Bedrohte Bücher hingewiesen haben – das verdeutlicht die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung der Wissenserhaltung durch Bibliotheken und Archive – sie sind die Infrastruktur der Demokratie!

Why do I love my dog? Because she helps me access my real, primal self A new exhibition at the Bodleian, Oxford, explores our obsession with pets. We don’t know who we are any more, says the curator Charles Foster, who once lived as a badger

Greta piece on our new exhibition @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 'Pets and their people' curated by Prof Charles Foster (@exeter.ox.ac.uk) - astonishing array of materials from across our collections, and some wonderful loans too ... www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

Monkey tennis

Vielen Dank für die Empfehlung von Bedrohte Bücher, herausgegeben von den netten Leuten bei @suhrkamp.de!

Fantastic to be in conversation this evening @ucl.ac.uk at the Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism with Colleen Shogan, former Archivist of the United States on the place of archives in democratic societies.

Pleased to be speaking at the House of Lords yesterday on the theme of Libraries and the growth economy- organised by @librariesconnected.bsky.social @rluk.ac.uk @ebscouk.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social and to catch up with old friend Valerie Vaz MP

Significant energy usage is triggered by these attacks …

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

The State of the United States: Safeguarding Knowledge: When Memory Becomes Political This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

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/...

Soft day, thank God. (Port Meadow)

Thanks for upping this, John. #BurningtheBooks keeps being an authoritarian priority across the globe ...

This is an excellent thread by my colleague @kastrel.bsky.social (in the Health Care Libraries team @bodleian.ox.ac.uk)

Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’ Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK

Free people read freely - unless you live in a council where political interference puts a stop to it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

New discoveries in Oxford's Chinese collections (Mamtimyn Sunuodula) YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann

Learn about some significant new finds in Bodleian Libraries’ Chinese collection including an important missing page from the world’s earliest text of Cantonese opera safely hidden inside a 40-volume imperial dictionary, two leaves of a rare copper plate print album commissioned by Kangxi Emperor.

Blue skies and Bluesky! @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

We basically have the full deck here @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @hsmoxford.bsky.social

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Oh this is very sad news. He was a real hero. -gave evidence in the trials of Milosevic and Mladic at the Hague - he faced the monsters. He showed us how libraries are of crucial importance for their communities - esp when they are deliberately targetted. I celebrated his work in #Burningthebooks

Incredible sunset from my office @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals

Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...