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Jason & The Coal Mining Adventure - Exhibition (FREE) - National Mining Museum

also should have mentioned, for anyone in the Midlothian vicinity, the exhibition itself is still open until the 24th of October, Wednesday-Sunday, and is free! (info here: nationalminingmuseum.com/whatson/jaso...)

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thank you!! both were a lot of fun, too :)

among the offerings were, remarkably, novels by Burney, Richardson, Smollett, Hogg, Scott, Radcliffe, and Sterne (I love that volume one--of a 2 vol set--of Tristram Shandy seems now to be missing, presumably read to death long before the library was re-opened as part of the Lead Mining museum.)

more books from the lead mining library--including Ferdinand Count Fathom, The Romance of the forest, Hogg's Works, The Antiquary, "Scrap Book", alongside some histories, travel narratives, and later novels

another shelf with 5 volumes of Burney's Cecelia

a lone volume of Tristram Shandy (alongside other books including swifts essays)

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(actually, volunteering at a mining museum has turned out to be surprisingly in line with my bibliographical interests--see also a recent staff field trip to Wanlockhead--incidentally the site of the second oldest subscription library in Britain (opened 1750s), just down the road from the first!)

a set of shelves from the Wanlockhead Miners' subscription library, showing a portion of the 18th and 19th century books in the collection

a group entering a lead mine, Lochnell Mine, with a sign noting that it was in operation between 1710 and 1880

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a highlight (had to squeak in a reference to 17th century broadside ballads somewhere...)

a spread from the catalogue focusing on JWM's "cloud sheep" inflatable sculptures. the text discusses the connections of the piece to Wakefield folklore (The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield) and the artist's own personal connection to that tradition (he was diagnosed with a life-long disabling condition in a hospital named after the Pinder, which subsequently influenced his artistic practice and commitment to disability activism)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

things have been a bit chaotic lately, and i've been away from social media for a while, but as the clouds are parting a bit, i'm glad to share this catalogue that i recently worked on for a show at the National Mining Museum Scotland -- i think my first ever publication in the form of a book!

cover of a catalogue booklet for "Jason & The Coal Mining Adventure: New Work by Jason Wilsher-Mills, by Ray Lafferty, Carlisle Yingst, & Bruce Sutherland." The background is a series of neon-bright rings around a stylized image of a coal miner with a bright mining lamp on its helmet

back cover of the catalogue: "Published to accompany the exhibition Jason & the Coal Mining Adventure, this catalogue explores the work of Jason Wilsher-Mills MBE. At its heart is Wish You Were Here, a monumental tapestry inspired by the experiences that shaped the artist's childhood in a Yorkshire mining community. Commissioned, together with the accompanying film, through a major Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, and presented at the National Mining Museum Scotland with support from Creative Scotland, this tapestry is shown alongside several of Wilsher-Mills' inflatable sculptures, many created through his longstanding engagement with disability communities. Together, these works explore themes of love, humour, family, resilience, memory, and solidarity. Although they extend far beyond mining history, they remain deeply rooted in the people and stories that shaped the artist's imaginitive world--connections that resonate strongly with Scotlands former coalfield communities." With logos of the NMMS, the National Coal Mining Museum (England) and various funders (Arts council England, Creative Scotland).

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i can collate anything (probably)

Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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We have officially catalogued ourselves in the digital world. 🧐 There's some rare exciting event unfolding next week! Want to join us?

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

if i had a job and/or fewer ongoing projects i would propose it myself, but meanwhile would be happy if someone else ran with it....

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

*(unless you maybe mean different ways of separating them?, in which case I have less strong feelings!)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

do you mean whether to separate them or not?* if so, imo, separated lists are way more useful when I'm browsing books to find useful sources for my own work, since I often look for primary sources separately from secondary. If they're combined, I find pulling out the useful sources a lot harder!

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I would suggest Kagi as a search engine, if you can swing it (it is on a subscription model, not free/ad-supported, which has obvious tradeoffs). Duckduckgo is less AI-ridden than Google, but I've found the actual results to be uneven. Kagi is more like peak google!

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

does this mean we can start making more real bibliographies and reference sources again? (and by "making" i mean have them actually valued as a kind of research)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

i have been read by OUP online's recommendation algorithm

"Recommended

Sad Historian
Carolyn Steedman, The American Historical Review, 2023"

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

thank you both, i appreciate it very much

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

oh no.... i was so excited about it, but am just a hair over the limit :(

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

(*most of the rest is in a storage unit in north carolina, alas)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

(finally trying to get the Defoe part* of my pre 1970 paperback collection into a catalogued shape, and so also looking at what I don't currently have....)

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

ah - so it looks like it might depend on what version of word you're using.... if your version allows it, it should be under "preferences" or "options", then on the "general" tab, there would be a check box for "enable modern comments", which you would want to toggle off

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

there's a way to set the default setting back to "old style" comments (though sadly no footnote comments)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"the only other way to make a request is via email; we typically ask that you email from your university account, as our spam filters often filter out things not from university accounts. also, we immediately shut off your university email account the day you left."

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"you'll lose access after 90 days, but also we won't post your tax documents until long after that, have fun!"

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

love that my former employer locks me out of the computer systems that allow access to necessary tax documents

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

i’ve been meaning to go back and spend more time with it (eg, sort out the workflow of Lyell making edits and then it being marked up, which I assume is what’s happening here), so if more from it might be useful as an example let me know :) happy to share images

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I‘m asking someone not on bluesky who may know (or at least know of some good places to look) tbd - but in the meantime, I do know of this pretty extensive example (Lyell’s Geography, copies at Edinburgh U) if that’s of any use

extensively marked up copy of a page from Lyell’s principles of geology

title page of Principles with corrections

errata page of Principles, with the errata struck through

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Reposted by Carlisle Yingst

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

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oh that's a good point! thank you

(and Fredson Bowers was later on the steering committee, apparently off and on, for a stretch in the 1950s, alongside Frye, Wimsatt, etc.)

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(I've been thinking, since #QueerBib26, about the institutional relations between Bibliography and Theory - as part of that, am v. interested in the fact that Greg's "What is Bibliography?" was presented at an early Eng Institute meeting!)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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(has also been a good opportunity for me to [try to 😵‍💫] learn about how steam engines actually work)

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

exciting things afoot at the National Mining Museum of Scotland - stay tuned for some more materials about this 1890s steam winding engine that I've been transcribing and hoping to start getting online next week www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/windingeng...

steam driven winding engine at the National Mining Museum of Scotland/Lady Victoria Colliery, built 1894 by Grant, Ritchie & Co., Kilmarnock. The image shows the central drum with a cylinder on each side. It is painted green with a yellow flag featuring a red lion on it; below the flag is a banner that reads "Lady Victoria"

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

also, switching to @kagi for most things has been the best investment

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“There used to be a professional layer between most people and raw information. Librarians, researchers, editors, fact-checkers: people whose…job was to understand how information was organized, who produced it, what motivated them, and where the gaps were“ - my ideal job if it still existed 😭

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

(to be clear 'used to' means when i was 10-12 years old, but i'd like to pretend that cow wrangling is like riding a bike)

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

a cow, probably (I used to raise them)

very excited to read this - speaking of so much to learn so little time!

i didn't get to really talk about these, but i'm fascinated by them:

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and lets not even talk about adam matthews databases 😵‍💫

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I think it all comes from the complicated way Zoom sets up 'Webinars' vs 'Meetings'

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from the presenter end: the chat was set up, for presenters, to only send messages to the hosts and other presenters; but presenters also couldn't post directly in the Q&A (could only post answers, not questions)! I know they sorted it so that presenters could send chat messages to all participants

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its gearing up to be an exciting conversation! but if you can't make it, please feel free be in touch for the pre-circulated paper if you don't have it :)

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hahaha, thank you - i was worried it was going to be too niche, but i'm glad it found its audience