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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity. Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April. Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

2026, as seen in stinking iris, ivy, holly, and pyracantha observed on winter dog walks. I got as far as 202 when the lurgy struck me down; finally I’ve finished the 6: wishing everyone brighter days, peace, and the joy of starting things and the relief of finishing them.

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Reframing King James VI and I: special issue of British Art Studies out now, new scholarship marking the 400th anniversary of the death of King James. Fireside reading treat🎄 👑

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British Art Studies

*British Art Studies* is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Shout-out to @alixebovey.bsky.social wonderful 2020 BBC Radio 4 programme "Knight Fights Giant Snail": #AdoreSnails 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Knight Fights Giant Snail

Dr Alixe Bovey presents a surreal journey through the world of medieval marginalia.

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Geoffrey Luttrell, patron of the Luttrell Psalter, died 650 years ago today - 23 May 1345 also his 69th birthday. Ars longa, vita brevis. (British Library, Add MS 42130). (Speaking of brevis, I’ve posted a much longer blather about this on insta). Happy anniversary, Geoffrey Luttrell.

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Goya’s luminous salmon steaks are completely ravishing - like he painted them for an hour and a half, then ate them. One of the many extraordinary works on loan to @courtauld.bsky.social from the Oskar Reinhart Collection for Goya to Impressionism, opening on Valentine’s Day.

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In Tom Stoppard’s Invention of Love, the young A. E. Housman has a line I can’t get out of my mind since seeing Hampstead Theatre’s production last weekend (so much so that I looked it up):

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

don’t draw medieval art much - unsure why, maybe avoiding work/relaxation cross-contamination. But @tomnickson1981 and @sacharpg’s Medieval Multiplied show @courtauld, which is centred on the most incredible ivory mirror case, made me want to. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/med...

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Delighted to see the unicorn horn, once in the treasury of St-Denis, back on display, in an excellent case and perfect location @museecluny 🤩🦄. #unicorn #unicornhorn #medievalsky

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A year old today: Cosmo has been celebrating all day, primarily through the medium of snacks. 🥰 #korthalsgriffon #longhairpointinggriffon

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

'Some of those affected are understood to be considering legal action, citing a significant impact on their plans to develop. Politicians including shadow education minister Neil O’Brien and former universities minister Lord Johnson of Marylebone have also spoken out against the move.' 1/2

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OfS register pause ‘will make sector financial problems worse’

Regulator accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ and faces potential legal action after temporarily shutting down key processes

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The suspension of Degree Awarding Powers process by OfS is extremely concerning - esp for small institutions that have invested huge amounts of time effort + £££ in starting on the process. Worth reading @wonkhe.bsky.social and Rob Pepper’s com at the end wonkhe.com/blogs/hate-t... #HE #ofs

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Happy December c/o the Sherborne Missal (BL, Add MS 74236, fol. 11v)

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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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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The 891-year-old Smithfield meat market is closing, bringing to an end the medieval triumvirate of church, hospital, and market (the fairground and field with a horse pool and gallows are long gone…). Image: Lobel’s map of London c1520 #medievalsky #medievallondon

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Cosmo is impervious to Bert but highly pervious to treats #stormbert #korthalsgriffon

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Storm Bert is still blowing hard - 40+ mph gusts this morning. Worth consulting windy dot com as well as this Austrian diagram of c1300 before taking my reluctant hound for a walk. #medievalsky

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🍸📚 Reading Elizabeth de Burgh’s 1359 statutes for the foundation of Clare College - established in the wake of the plague, with student numbers down - is rather remarkable given the absolute state of things in 2024. 1/2 #medievalsky

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Bluesky giving me c2011 flashback, when you could have an intense, sprawling convo with mss specialists all over the world about inky cat footprints or the material evidence of spectacle use in manuscripts… ps any tips finding on medieval art and medieval mss convos? #medievalsky #historysky

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Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Is bluesky a light at the end of the tunnel…? Keen to find out…. c/o Hieronymous Bosch’s vision of the afterlife (in the Accademia, Venice)

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