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Anne McLaughlin

@admclaughlin.bsky.social

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Librarian, art historian, medievalist, and generally interested in most things, digitisation services manager @TrinCollLibCam.bsky.social (All opinions my own) | formerly @anmcl001 on Twitter…

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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 · 11/09/2026

Honest question: which clock?!?

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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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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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