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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't miss out on our event on 18 Nov with Green Lung's lead singer Tom Templar, talking to historian Thomas Williams FSA about his lyrical inspiration and relationship with Britain’s ancient and uncanny past. www.sal.org.uk/events/dark-...

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As Old as the Hills: Britain’s Dark Folklore with Green Lung’s Tom Templar & Thomas Williams FSA - Society of Antiquaries of London

Occult practitioners, haunted barrows, crumbling Victorian cemeteries, bodies hidden in the wych elm, and - of course - the devil himself.

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🚨Vacancy alert! 🚨 We're hiring for Director of Kelmscott Manor, a property which dates to around 1600 with its most famous occupants being William Morris and his family. Closing date for applications is Sunday 5 July 2026! www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our small Library & Collections team is hiring an FT Museum Collections Manager! ✨ It's an incredible collection to work with, especially for someone with an interest in British history and the development of archaeology. Please share with any museum colleagues who might be interested! #museumjobs

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We have an exciting event in Jan for PGRs, ECRs and those starting out in fields involving the past. Join us in considering how the Society could contribute to early career support by enabling the exchange of ideas and peer support in these challenging times. www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...

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Early Career Antiquaries - Society of Antiquaries of London

We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We’re delighted to announce that our Honorary Fellows elected by the Fellowship for 2025 are Dr Ross Austin Burns and Professor David Olusoga OBE! www.sal.org.uk/2025/11/hon-...

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Our annual @antiquaries.bsky.social Collections & Research Day in collaboration with SGS is coming up on 1st Dec! 🎉 This exciting programme explores interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, covering 300 years of collecting history. Book by 24th Nov to join us: www.sal.org.uk/event/crd-25/

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Collections & Research Day, with Spalding Gentlemen's Society - Society of Antiquaries of London

Join the Society of Antiquaries, both online and in-person at Burlington House, to celebrate our archive, library, and museum collections.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Our Library & Collections team at @antiquaries.bsky.social has a vacancy for a fixed-term Loans Coordinator - the closing date is Monday! Further details & how to apply 👇 www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... #museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library

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Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London

Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A @antiquaries.bsky.social display of early-printed books on witchcraft, death & the occult just wasn't enough for #halloween, so I also dressed up as an early-printed book. 💀 #antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Want to join our lovely team? We're looking for a Loans Coordinator! It's 21 hours per week for a fixed term (7 months) and the candidate will look after our national and international exhibition and research loan requests. Deadline is 10 November. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

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Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London

Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

💀🎃👻🦇 Spooky shenanigans are happening 11am-3pm this Friday (and that does mean marvellously macabre early-printed books and broadsides!) 🦇👻🎃💀

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A unique opportunity to be a paid maker-in-residence this summer alongside our historic collections! 🎨🖼🖌🗿 #art #sculpture #creativearts #decorativearts #makerinresidence #magnacarta #exhibition #museum #library #rarebooks #history #collections

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

📢Dream job alert! 🚨 You could lead our small & friendly team at the Antics and work with one of ✨the best✨ special collections in the country! Happy to answer informal questions about SAL / the library. Please share amongst your networks of #library, #archives & #heritage professionals! 👇

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Fakes and forgeries out on display today at @antiquaries.bsky.social for our April Fool's themed Open Friday 🎉 Including real medieval pilgrim badges and Victorian 'Billy and Charley' forgeries! #fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Some of our @antiquaries.bsky.social treasures out on display for our special "Illuminated" Open Friday today ✨💖🌟 Open until 4pm!

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

As part of our spring illuminations celebration tomorrow I've also been looking for modern books to show alongside the medieval orginals. These 1860s books on Illuminating are like works of art in their own right, with decorated gold bindings & wood-engraved or chromolithiographed plates.

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Join us this Friday to celebrate the arrival of spring weather and longer, lighter days in style. This free drop-in event includes creative demonstrations, a display of illuminated texts from our special collections, musical performances and plenty of shiny surprises. www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...

A page from the Lindsey Psalter showing an illuminated B initial with small scenes of musicians around it.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If you're in central London this Friday with time to spare, pop into @antiquaries.bsky.social for a special open day on ✨illuminations!✨ I've prepared a display of some of our most beautiful manuscripts & printed books for the occasion - it's going to be fabulous! 🎨🖌📚 www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...

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Illuminated: Open Friday at the Society - Society of Antiquaries of London

Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

You know you're amongst good company when you receive an enquiry from a librarian in Australia, asking about how the binding of one of our 18thC books compares to their copy, and the reply comes back "...of course, yours is a presentation copy (hot d͟a͟m͟n͟...)" 😅 #librarylife #rarebooks #bookbinding

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy birthday to the 3rd revision of Magna Carta, 800 years old today! 🎉🎂🥳 (yes, we are having cake to mark the occasion - appropriately distanced, of course!) #magnacarta #magnacarta800 #magnacarta1225 #specialcollections #archives #manuscripts #medieval #medievalhistory #socantiquaries

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

From the latest @britishlibrary.bsky.social newsletter... not a manuscript! Of all the places who'd mix those up... 🤐😅 #earlyprint #printed #rarebooks #broadside #print #16thcentury #tudor

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Excited to say I'm one of the speakers at this year's Broadsides Day, taking place at Cecil Sharp House on 22nd February. I'll be talking about @antiquaries.bsky.social's collection of 19thC Cork ballads, now catalogued after a mere 150 years. We got round to it eventually! 🙌 #ballads #broadsides

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Broadside Day 2025

VWML in partnership with the Traditional Song Forum

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This week's surprise book find @antiquaries.bsky.social: a lovely gold-tooled copy of a 1580 handbook of French verbs, with these charming 18th-century coloured drawings of fruits (and a broom?). Perhaps those of Lucy Strong, who signed "her booke" at the back. #herbook #rarebooks #printedbook

A highly-decorated gold-tooled binding, in brown calf, of a printed book from 1580.

The last leaf of an open book from 1580; the left is printed, with the inscription "Lucy Strong her booke" written on either side of the printer's mark (woodcut). The right side, a blank endpaper, has five coloured drawings of fruits (pears, blackberries, plums or damsons) with leaves attached to the stems.

The title-page of "The treasurie of the French tong: teaching the waye to varie all sortes of verbes" by Claudius Hollyband, printed in London in 1580. The endpaper on the left side has a coloured drawing of what looks like a broom (ie. twigs bundled at one end) pointing upwards.

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The #Avebury #henge complex is one of the most impressive in Britain. #Stukeley first visited the site in 1719, his interest aroused by reading John Aubrey’s suggestion that the Ancient Britons were responsible for building the stone circles.

An aerial view of the round plot of Avebury and its henge.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Great (paid!) opportunity for a graduate looking to get a foothold in #librarianship or #archives. And what an amazing collection to work with... #library #archive #libraries #traineeship #rarebooks #specialcollections

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Great @efdss.bsky.social lecture tonight by Dr Peter Harrop on "prog folk" and different ways of thinking about modern folklore(sque) customs, art, radicalism, inclusivity vs. first wave of folk revival... a lot to digest and ponder!

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A few nice 17th-century bindings on printed books one of my volunteers is working on, adding Albert Way FSA's ownership provenance to our library catalogue. Always a good surprise to find a contemporary binding (especially armorial) when pulling a rather dismal burgundy box off the shelf!

Three large late-16th/17th century printed books, bound in brown leather. Two have armorial stamps of their 17th-century owners; one is in gold.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A glorious day at Whittlesea Straw Bear festival yesterday, full of morris, merriment and music in the winter sun 🌾❄️ And, of course, rather a lot of real ale!

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Sleeping Village Reviews @sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Revisiting this debut album from East London's Cruel Mother. Folky proto-doom with a heavy emphasis on balladry, rough around the edges in all the right places. Cruel Mother - Cut Down From The Earth

Album cover for Cut Down For the Earth by Cruel Mother. A woodcut print style drawing of robed figure with a scythe standing above a pile of bodies.

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some fabulous things in the Medieval Women @britishlibrary.bsky.social exhibition. One to revisit again, I think. I feel vindicated in my dislike for ice skating, now knowing its patron saint Lidwina of Schiedam (1380-1433) is also the patron of chronic pain!

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Love this printer's device of Joanne's Oporinus, Basel (1559 ed. of Bale's Illustruim Maioris Britannaie Scriptorum). The Greek poet Arion stands on an dolphin whilst playing a lira de braccio, a sort of large proto-violin with extra drone strings. The dolphin looks distinctly unimpressed...

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I turned up a second set of these ballads a few weeks' ago by chance, which are now added to @antiquaries.bsky.social library catalogue with Roud numbers, and will be appearing in the @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Roud index in due course 🎉 #irishfolk #tradfolk #ballads #broadsides #cork

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There's a vacancy at @antiquaries.bsky.social for a permanent p/t Governance & Grants officer - come work in beautiful Burlington House with our wonderful library! www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... #heritagejobs #artsjobs #antiquaries

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Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London

Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

All day today we're running our Collections & Research Day, join us online and learn all about us and what we've got! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7t...

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A late-1600s Burying-in-Woollen affidavit... the only one I've seen on vellum! It looks like parts have been scraped - possibly reused? Given its pretty dishevelled state, maybe it was pinned up somewhere. All very intriguing. Love those crude skull and shroud woodcuts! ☠️🍬

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Becky L @bekkhilde.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Now I have an account on a non-Muskian platform, I can get back on sharing Cool Things from the collections 🙌 🎉 Last week I found this 49cm tall engraving of a monument for Henry, Prince of Wales, d.1612, by Richard Haydock. As far as I can tell it's unique - haven't found any other references!

A large Jacobean engraving depicting a memorial column for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died in 1612. The engraving is signed by self-taught engraver Richard Haydock.

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