20 Dec 1643: William Dowsing begins his iconoclastic visit of all 16 colleges & 14 parishes of #Cambridge #otd He was thorough! (BM) Getting up on ladders to get at those hard-to-reach images & all. He kept a diary of his exploits, so we know a fair bit about what he hacked out.

And, to end on a high, here’s the way that the Michaelmas Editors of 1949 described themselves in their Christmas issue! Looking forward to continue to work with the archives next term!

[I forget the date on this one, but it’s so striking I couldn’t miss it out]

This satirical advert (a personal favourite), Michaelmas 1970

A Brain!

Trinity, 1996

Hilary Term, 1969

I’ve been volunteering at OSPL as their archive officer this term. They have a great backlog of student journalism at Oxford: here are some of my favourite Isis Mag covers I’ve seen!

Starting off - this seasonably appropriate Christmas Issue from Michaelmas 1948

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

Had a lovely two days. Excellent papers aside, I absolutely loved the programme with all the early modern print references! Thanks for organising such an interesting conference. :)

Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥

Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance.

#EarlyModern #Skystorians

Some hidden music I caught sight of today!

Had a wonderful time at the Print Matters summer school with Thin Ice Press this week! So many exciting conversations with so many interesting people.

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

9 June 1549: #otd The first Book of Common Prayer became compulsory in #England (BM)

Book-spotting in the Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa.

cloisters and catalogues at Lincoln Cathedral