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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The surprise of the day! When a beautiful incunable lands on your desk to answer an enquiry only to introduce you not to Sallust, but to John Harris, self-described as a ‘Writer of fac-similes to supply deficiency’s to Caxton and other Early Printers &c’. 🤩

Vindelinus de Spira’s original colophon!

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When you decide to open the oddly-shaped box a colleague dropped at your desk last night….🤩

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

One of the perks of waking up early to open the Library: seeing the Wren drenched in gold. ☀️

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss. #worldmentalhealthday

The Bridge of Sighs with blue sky and autumnal trees reflected in the river.

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Reminded by Giuseppe Rollo’s recent chapter that history is never irrelevant…

Screenshot of a paragraph in ‘Navigating the History of ‘Translation-Adaptation’: The Case of La Sorella by Gianbattista Della Portaand Adelphe by Samuel Brooke’.

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

While it feels like there’s precious little one can feasibly do, the least I can do is back those who are working to shed a little light on the darkness.

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Gothic or not -- it's a lovely little book! Thanks for the great thread Carin!! @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

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Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

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The James Ford Lectures in British History

French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 - Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

You may have read it before on this account: #earlymodern Europe was a paper age. Let's focus, once more if you fancy, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper. Another 🧵 for #paperhistory nerds, and enjoying #skystorians 🗃️ (1)

The painting "Lawyer's Cabinet" by Dirk van Delen, dated 1642. You see an interior of a contemporary (Dutch) lawyer's office with lots of books, and papers. The details are described in this thread. A source for the digitized painting is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Dirck_van_Delen_-_The_Lawyer%27s_Cabinet.jpg

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Frost and fog and a frozen fountain!

The fountain in the centre of great court, Trinity College, Cambridge

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

You can thank me later: 🔗 what-is-dh-the-album.netlify.app/vol-01/digit... & 🔗 youtu.be/N000qglmmY0?... (all credit to Philip Allfrey)! #IIIF #WhoNeedsAJobDescription

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Dua Lipa - Levitating (Official Animated Music Video)

YouTube video by Dua Lipa

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🚨 Exciting opportunity alert! 🚨 Trinity College is looking to recruit two enthusiastic Graduate Trainees, one to join our Library team, and one to be part of the Archives team. There is still time to apply before the deadline of Sunday 2nd February. For details: trin.cam.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Can’t wait to get my hands on this!! Sounds ace!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

LAST CHRISTMAS Ich gave thee my hearte But the verye next daye ther came a wolf, Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost - And the wolf stole my hearte, fled To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars. SEEKE NOW my hearte, Return it within a yeare and a daye: Thys ys thy queste!

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ford Lectures! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne! Bet these'll be great! @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What’s the best thing about working in a library? When gorgeous photographs from an archeological excavation at Nemi in the mid 1880s find their way onto your desk!

A selection of black and white photographs documenting archeological finds

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Saddened to see this as someone who walked the Camino as a solo woman at 21 who (very luckily) faced none of these horrors. And very very angered that so many have.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

We at the London Palaeography Seminar have a special treat for you on Tuesday 12th Nov at 5:30pm - Tessa Webber speaking on 'Punctuation and the aural dimension of Latin texts in the Middle Ages'. In person in Senate House and hybrid. Do sign up: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/punct...

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

This is a fascinating study. But when you find a Lidar survey of a region, process it with archaeological techniques, and locate an archaeological site, that’s not “an accident”. That’s “an on purpose”. 🗃️

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Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

IF YOU'RE IN GEORGIA, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. THE DEADLINE IS OCT. 7 TO REGISTER. YOU MAY THINK YOU'RE REGISTERED AND FIND YOU ARE NOW "INACTIVE." mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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Elections Portal

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Delphine Demelas @delphinedemelas.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

The complete manuscripts collection of Cambridge Queen’s College is now accessible online! 📚 tinyurl.com/4w4yjtzb Medievalsky

Augustini Soliloquia, Cambridge, Queen’s College, ms 25

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Incredible!! I know what I’m doing this weekend!!

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Due to Ash Wednesday, only 47 Manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024... Includes a Eusebian Chronical with Sanvito rubrication, a Polyphonic mass by Allegri, some more 17th C texts and more!

A page of humanist script with white vine borders on three sides. A large capitol E starts the main text, under several lines of title. Ott.lat.743 f.1r

A page of greek minuscule in 2 columns with occasional red capitols in the gutter. Vat.gr.1991 f.3r

A page of a polyphonic Kyrie Eleison. Three large Ks are on the left, each starting 2 staves of mensural music Capp.sist.53 f.3v

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

A great summary of last week’s Now You See It, Now you Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age. Definitely worth a read:

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

The vicious cyberattack on the British Library is a national outrage – posing huge challenges for our national library. I argue in this Opinion piece in the Evening Standars that government should be properly funding their complex recovery programme.

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The British Library hack is a national outrage – the Government must pay to save it

It is a national outrage that the British Library has been unable to fulfil its function over the past three months following a savage cyberattack – and that its functioning is likely to be severely...

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Want to know more about the discoveries relating to Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours, now on display in the Wren? This blog post will tell you everything, from the link with Holbein's portrait to how Raman spectroscopy was used to identify the jewels in the binding. Not to be missed! t.ly/ot3RS

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

New Royal Historical Society blog post on ‘Web access to British Library databases: workarounds for historians’. If you have any info about other relevant resources, there’s a link to submit suggestions too 🗃️

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WEB ACCESS TO BRITISH LIBRARY DATABASES: WORKAROUNDS for historians | Historical Transactions

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Italian History

Contribute expertise in Italian Renaissance history and broader European/transnational contexts to our dynamic academic environment!

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

British Library news (3): English Short Title Catalogue mirror now updated to include post-1700 records. Let's hope that this augurs the full, official release of the ESTC as #OpenAccess estc.printprobability.org #History 🗃️

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

The best days always begin with #manuscripts!! Lovely details from @trincolllibcam.bsky.social MS R.14.34🔗: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13/11/2023

the first ever webcam was put online by the university of cambridge in 1993. it was pointed at coffee pot in a room near the computer lab so workers could check how much coffee was left

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

‘ ‘Twas the night before Christmas [holidays] and all through the house [Library] not a creature was stirring not even a mouse’ - one more working day until the Wren closes for the last time in 2023!!

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Thanks for sharing Stephanie (and thanks to Nikolai Vogler for creating such a useful resource)!!

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

For #ThrowbackThursday we're throwing things all the way back to this recently re-digitised thirteenth-century #beastiary in the #WrenLibrary collection. Check it out the manuscript here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O..., and this great elephant pursuing a dragon on f. 60r!

Image of an elephant and a green dragon. Trinity College, Cambridge MS O.2.14, f. 60r

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

We are here! Looking forward to building a new community of followers and interacting with you all. We will be posting digitisation updates, glimpses of life in the #WrenLibrary, our own blog posts - of which we are extremely proud!, news of events, beautiful images, and more. Watch this space!

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Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

🎉 The Wren Library (and indeed all of the libraries of Trinity College, Cambridge) are now on Blue Sky. Find us @trincolllibcam.bsky.social 🎉

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 27/10/2023

Following our launch last night (which included a countdown and a big button) Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University is live! Easily search descriptions of Manuscripts & Archives held at the Bodleian and some Oxford colleges, from across 11 online catalogues! marco.ox.ac.uk

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