A family has handed over a 13th century book to the National Library of Norway. Conservator Chiara Palandri says its pages were made of calfskin parchment and that the cover appears to be hairy sealskin. The strap to hold the book together is thought to have been made from reindeer hide.
Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social kicked off with a conversation with @rmbryant.bsky.social and Gina Brooks!
The conversation is now available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake4...
#envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty
this is a stunning book
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Many thanks to @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and @saraspike.bsky.social for all the support and dialogue around this!
Student made soaps from the Caribou Club course last week 🧼🫧
Call for Contributions – The Oar: New Brunswick’s Popular History Magazine - @theoarnb.bsky.social
The Editorial Committee invites proposals for contributions that document aspects of New Brunswick’s past, broadly defined.
niche-canada.org/2025/08/28/c...
#cdnhist #newbrunswick
Beautiful days on the land at the Caribou Club this week for Kikkuwosson/Wksitqamu, 3 days of land based art and teachings
Our first Call for Papers is live! If you are interested in writing the history of New Brunswick, engaging with popular audiences, and supporting small museums, then we would love to hear from you! Proposals for submissions are due 30 September 2025. See below for details:
And bring a thermos of hot tea!
my first flax flower 💠
I imagine those switchbacks through the mountains are especially thrilling when winter driving. Like slalom skiing without knees
What had you here for a year? I was trying to imagine living here but expect the summer experience is not representative. We've had a lovely visit though and I wish we had another few days. We spent most of this trip on the other side of the island
We also popped by Wildfire Pottery in North Shore and she had a wonderful and carefully curated selection of used books
Ed's looked great too! I had all the kids with me so couldn't look as closely there as I'd have liked. With those two shops and the comics shop in between it seemed like a great area for books.
It didn't work out for me today, so still need to track this title down, but there are some lovely shops here, and I bought a few others 🫠 A great Charlotte St shop called On the Same Page had Oil People in the centre of their window display!
It better be! 😎 To honor your journey with Oil People, I'm going to try and find a copy of Perfection in Sydney NS today
That's exactly what it is-- enjoyable as something that can be read in an evening but didn't make me want to go read something else by him
This looks great. I'll pick up a copy. I'm just starting David Huebert's Oil People today so no thoughts on it yet. I finished Matt Haig's The Humans last night which was short&sad
Hello Bluesky! We're an interdisciplinary project on the teaching of palaeography and codicology, and we're now branching out to include early printed books. Check out our website for lots of learning resources: teachingthecodex.com
What novel?
I love this essay about the historical ecology of a land haunted by caribou, and the restoration of a Wolastoqey birch bark basket by Elder Gina Brooks and @rmbryant.bsky.social
"although Wolastokuk no longer holds caribou, it continues to hold caribou food" #envhist #envhum #cdnhist
Today Gina Brooks and @rmbryant.bsky.social share "'the stories come alive in it': Renewing lakotowakən in the Waponahki homelands"
niche-canada.org/2025/06/30/t...
#envhum #indigenous #art
Full story on the CBC NB website this morning. "We want to make sure that the people are aware that we're collaborating together to make sure that this land is truly assessed for its value to the people, not value to industry." -Gina Brooks
!!!! "The advancing scholarship of Indigenous book history, then, might reposition the paratext as a dynamic literary space that extends well beyond the life and agency of the author..."
Talking treaty in the old growth forest in Lorneville tomorrow as NB continues to mull over the EIA for this industrial park expansion
At Point Pleasant Park this summer 🌞
Spring reading about what trees are doing even while we don't know how to see them--and the things that are happening to trees (in our name) while we aren't seeing 💙📚
Who were those authors? I find that I have favourite books moreso than favourite authors
they meant to text me