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And the way you handle your books is equally crude and immature. (Speaking as a librarian, GOP depictions of book handling are up there with GOP depictions of hands as very wrong.)
Listening to his greatest hits, I suppose.
Robin Stokes presumably. Weird vicar/vet in one person combo.
And all her jokes were really funny ‘uns
Such crushing grief my soul now warps
As I gaze upon her corpse. Although a martyr to her bunions,
She was the best of good companions.
Thank heavens! Little Sebastian will at last be able to ride real ponies again instead of merely playing with toy ones.
P.R. Harris's comprehensive history of the British Museum Library from 1753-1973 has been digitised and is now freely available online - all 883 pages of it! More info and link here: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
But you could bond over your misshapen hands.
Nice one, @nickinmasham.bsky.social
Endpapers of a book decorated with coloured stripes and with the stamp of the bookbinder M. Zoetl of Freystadt
Some 19th-century rainbow endpapers to brighten up a grey day (from 'Die Natur ihre Wunder und Geheimnisse, oder die Bridgewater-Bücher', Stuttgart, 1836-38).
It's a long-running in-joke in Private Eye magazine to refer to the royals by very non-royal sounding names. Charles is 'Brian', the late queen was 'Brenda'.
I’m sure Tony’s birthday comes round more than once a year #TheArchers
Yes, that made me want to scream because Peggy was the Londoner introduced at the beginning of the series as the person who needed to have rural and agricultural life explained to her (in keeping with the educational aspect of the programme), while Doris was Ambridge born & bred as any fule kno.
Ooh, good call!
Well, this is a bit of an anticlimax isn’t it? #TheArchers
I'm co-supervising a PhD placement on 'War Poetry in the Manuscript Collections: Cataloguing, Discovery and Outreach'. Please have a look at the project profiles and share this with any PhD students who may be interested in applying (by 27 February).
I scrolled through hoping someone hadn’t beaten me to it too!
“It must be AI, the postures are strange and the hands are all wrong” said Gertrude with an astonishing lack of self-awareness #GirlsOwnCC
The Diet of Worms (every schoolchild's favourite name for a historical event)
Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at British Library
Find the lost bunting and add it.
He’s also clearly bad at maths because when asked to define himself in 3 words he uses 6 🤷♀️
What infuriates me is that he stands up in front of world leaders, and he lies and lies and lies, and none of them seem to publicly call him out (unless I’ve missed something). Also he confused Greenland & Iceland more than once, & if Biden had done that once, Republicans would’ve been all over it.
Saw the name Pip here and thought for a moment it was a new storyline on #TheArchers that I'd missed.
Suzy Corrigan explores the provenance of Oscar Wilde’s manuscripts in the Eccles Bequest and describes the outputs of a PhD placement at the British Library www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Does he not realise that the Nobel Foundation is based in Sweden, and has nothing to do with the national government of Sweden, let alone the national government of Norway.
Ah, but you’ve got much better at big brothering over the years ❤️
And going back further the man all my history teachers called Cardinal Richloo.
At least we did the Frondes.
