📖 Interested in rare books? This course will give you a personal toolkit to identify and interpret the various kinds of provenance evidence found in books before 1900.
Get your tickets by 31st May 2026: buff.ly/gbcDAU9
#rarebooks #LRBS26
The hardcover of my edited collection, Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception, is 60% off on the @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social website. So, if you wanted to read some fascinating studies of how the early English past was reinvented in a Norman world...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/pre-con...
Week 2 of our Latin Palaeography course @imems.bsky.social started today…Caroline Minuscule galore!
While teaching, an apocalyptic storm arrived out of nowhere. I’m worried we might have summoned it… #latinpalaeographyworries #readinglatin
Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work
View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
We kick off our 2-week Latin Palaeography course today @imems.bsky.social. Meeting a new cohort is always a highlight✨
Learn to read the scripts of Medieval Iberia with our newest short course, Reading Medieval Spanish Manuscripts. 📖
Book now: imemsdurhamlearn.com/reading-medi...
💻8 weeks of online access
⏱️Entirely flexible to your schedule
💬Optional Q&A sessions with your tutor
I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Reposting for the weekend crowd #BookHistory #Manuscripts
It’s here! My latest short course for IMEMS, an introduction to the key scripts used in Medieval Iberia 📜
Still receiving applications! 📜📜
Want to dip your toes in any of these fascinating topics? Join one of our online short* courses!
*an awful lot of manuscripts still feature.
A detail from the Chronicle of Battle Abbey, showing a historiated initial enclosing a portrait of William the Conqueror, sitting enthroned, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, with a dog at his feet. The initial is formed from a winged creature.
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027.
Learn more and apply through the link below!
www.bl.uk/services/res...
The final conclusion of catching up with a mentor this evening was that perhaps I should make peace with possibly having to abandon academia again… oof indeed (and they’re right)
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
There are 6 spaces remaining for a fascinating looking workshop on Arabic calligraphy on 24 March at KCL.
'Get ready to dive into the world of creativity by learning the expressive capacities of Arabic letters with Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani.' (from the booking site) libcal.kcl.ac.uk/event/4503803
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Incunable covered in a spectacular leaf from a late Spanish MS, possibly a chronicle (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, 8° Inc 2775.20)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000144080...
Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!
You can see me there looking intently at all your applications!
Join us and learn Latin or Early Modern English Palaeography. There will be many manuscripts, many videos, and many live sessions.
Book now!
#medievalsky #palaeography #manuscripts #online #course
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Bursaries for London Rare Book School courses including this one are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social! 📖
The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
It's the @rarebookschool.bsky.social-to-@digitalscriptorium.bsky.social pipeline! Learn how to identify and catalogue fragments in your collection by taking a class at Rare Book School and then join the Digital Scriptorium consortium to make them discoverable!
rarebookschool.org/impact-story...
One of Those Days™️. Currently screaming in job market…
The hand is not exceptional, but have a look at the layout of this glossed Bible. Some early-modern binder must have liked it, too! (Paderborn, Universitätsbibliothek, Th 45a)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:h...
A drawing of male head wearing a hat with an arm and hand pointing at written text.
Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#marginaliamonday
#medievalsky
Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day.
They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach!
I can help. Let’s chat.
Discover 17th-century codes with our new online course, 'Working with Early Modern Letters'! 🤫✒️ tinyurl.com/5d9r8rcp
✔️A week's worth of content for just £100
✔️Optional Q&A sessions with an expert
✔️Learn at your own pace
Pictured: John Pell's 17th-century equivalent of an Enigma machine.
🎺 We're opening applications for the last term of our biweekly seminar series!!! 🎺
Submit your abstract/proposal of no more than 250 words to our email, memsa.committee@durham.ac.uk, by Sunday 15th March. Check the post for further details!
We can't wait to have you join us next term!