I really hope youβll win, being a Green Party member myself. However, it seems very easy to put voters off. When canvassing, please close doors behind you.
(Quiet Riot Podcast).
I really hope youβll win, being a Green Party member myself. However, it seems very easy to put voters off. When canvassing, please close doors behind you.
(Quiet Riot Podcast).
Our St. Pancras site will be closed on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March for essential maintenance work.
We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.
There are further details on our website for affected Readers and bookers here link.bl.uk/5ym
You werenβt late for Tongue out Tuesday- you have just invented Whiskers Wednesdays!
A white background with an orange ring and the green IIPC log sitting on the right side of the ring. In the the centre of the ring in green text reads - IIPC Collaborative Collections #IIPC-CDG
IIPC CDG won the Celebrating Digital Innovation in Sporting Heritage Award 2025 for their preservation of Olympic & Paralympic Games. @sportingheritage.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vyu
#WebArchiving #SportingHeritage #IIPC-CDG #Olympics #Paralympics
Happy birthday, Alex! π₯³ Invitation still stands.
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom release a joint statement:
Arme Simon, Branca, Marcus en Lea.
Congratulations Sarina!
Happy 250th Birthday #JaneAusten !! Love my beautiful Folio Society edition.
There can never be enough photos of Robins. Keep them coming, please!
Thank you, Alex, that would be lovely.
Secret Maps is open:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fridayβ― 09.30β ββ 18.00
Tuesday β―09.30 βββ 20.00
My email address is marja.kingma@bl.uk. Let me know when is good for you.
Yes, I do. I am curator for Dutch Language Collections.
I had another look at the mirror today and it is not shiny, but dull. The photo caught the reflection of the lights in the space. You best come the BL and see for yourself. π
Iβm almost sorry I already have a copy! It is such a beautiful book with lovely little details. π¦
Johan Cruijff said : βIf you canβt win you have to make sure you donβt lose.β (Ajaxmuseum.nl)
Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, the Green Party's message couldn't be clearer: cut bills, tax billionaires.
We live in a massively unequal society - it's time to change that. Tax wealth fairly, reduce the strain on ordinary families, and invest in publicΒ services.
Is it? #TortieTuesday
Happy birthday Anne Louise! MY your day be filled with lots of foxes, wolves, cake and books.
Thanks Alex; interesting nuance. I hope the label is correct.
If youβre wondering what an obsidian mirror looks like come to the Secret Maps exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social. The British Museum kindly lend this beautiful specimen. Apologies for the bad image-reflections! π
Love the podcast- the best philosophy lesson one can imagine.
Go on- check it out. Wonderful resources- all of them.
Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
An interesting two days lie ahead, with a varied programme on curating collections in libraries, museums, archives during conflict and crises. A good turn out of @britishlibrary colleagues and colleagues from other heritage institutions.
Awful thing to happen. I hope she will recover well. Animals are so resilient, and cats especially so. Good luck!
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: MarΓa Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.
If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodleyβs Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
Iβm so looking forward to todayβs event: βConnecting histories, connecting heritageβ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.
And early modern women artists are well represented in a 4th exhibition, coming up at the end of October!
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E
London Liverpool Street to Harwich International to take the ferry to NL.