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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Jan Needle’s “Wild Wood” coming true? Can’t read because paywall but hope it’ll be in tomorrow’s print edition.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you care about the British Library, consider applying to join the Board! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9596?n...

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Appointment details – British Library up to x7 Board Members – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And today’s “You really thought it was a good idea to put the stamp there?!” award goes to whoever stamped this broadside (BL 74/1875.d.4(55))

A 17th-century German broadside describing a comet in 1680, with a woodcut illustration which has a library stamp placed in the middle.

Detail of the illustration with the library stamp in the centre of the white space representing the comet’s tail

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why has Eddie gone all folk? He was famously Country & Western (English Midlands style)

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I swear the challenges on Celebrity Traitors get more ridiculous every week,” mused Evadne, removing her monocle to reduce her vision of the tiresome goings-on. #GirlsOwnCC

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great new BL European Studies blog post about the first European printed study of cheese. (Warning: it will make you want to eat cheese!) www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

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In good taste: Europe's first systematic study of cheese

Dive into the gastronomic world of travelling physician Pantaleone da Confienza’s 'Summa lacticiniorum'.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Brits of a certain age, travelling in the German-speaking countries always leads you into a little time warp where C&A still exists. And if you go inside it still looks just like C&A did the last time you went into one in the UK.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rather pleased with this photo that I took opposite St Martin’s church in Basel’s old town. The halo was the only way to get the sun hidden but I didn’t notice the vapour trails until I looked at the picture.

Fountain with a statue of a man in armour with the sun forming a halo around his head and two vapour trails in the sky above

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Went to the Papiermühle Museum in Basel (highly recommended) today and made a little sheet of paper.

Small sheet of handmade paper with a watermark of the emblem of the city Basel

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was just passing by the Renoir Museum and spotted it lying in the garden, ma’am. I thought you might like it for the parlour wall. #GirlsOwnCC

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Next time I’ll send in a poem I wrote when I was 12.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Posts like this are so helpful to me in my work, highlighting books and publishers of interest for the BL's collections which I might otherwise miss!

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Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@susanreed.bsky.social and I are looking for academic co-supervisors for a collaborative PhD project on the German friendship albums (alba amicorum/ Stammbücher) at the British Library. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Details on the website: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Papercut artwork in the friendship album of Georg Eringshausen. Egerton MS 1311, f. 74

Embroidery of sunflowers in the friendship album of Magnus Weickmann. Egerton MS 1451, f. 9.

Friendship album of Christoph Carl Clausner with a painted portrait on the left and German inscription on the right. Egerton MS 1467, f. 1v-2r.

Friendship album of Jobst Wilhelm Munker with inscription in Latin on the left and painting of three men smoking pipes on the right. Egerton MS 1427, ff. 29r-30v.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Watching this as a child I definitely believed that there was a planet called Vulcan, but knew that it wasn’t inhabited by people with pointed ears.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Guernsey is fab, enjoy! If it’s still open, visit Victor Hugo’s house. And if the weather’s good, walk as much as you can of the coast path,

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Morrissey and Ricky Gervais.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Engelbert Humperdinck (the 19th-century composer, not the 20th-century pop singer) wrote some additional bars of Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ to cover a scene change that took longer than expected.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not paint it, just do some rather odd cross-hatching on it.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Depends who they are, how old they are, what their background is, what sort of books they used to love reading. I would recommend Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi unreservedly but know that some people I know might not like it.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’d always heard it as cruck barn, but the ‘crack barn’ posts did make me wonder if Freddie had gone back to his drug dealing ways.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When your body is so weirdly constructed your hours of sleep should be the least of your concerns.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Look here, Vicar, I thought this exorcism was meant to be expelling a demon from Euphemia, not turning her into one #GirlsOwnCC

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Vicar: I hope this won’t actually be the happiest day of your lives. I hope you will have many happier days. Me: Yes because most of the rest of your lives won’t involve extended loo roll metaphors.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At the risk of traumatising you, they were.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I was ringing for a wedding today and the Vicar’s address included an extremely drawn-out analogy between marriage and Andrex toilet paper. They even unrolled a roll of it down the aisle. It was very much straying into (and possibly beyond) Alan Bennett comedy vicar territory.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Having stolen Messi’s legs to scupper Argentina’s chances in the World Cup final, the gang were given away by the fact that Maria’s hat was higher than the wall of their flimsy hideaway #GirlsOwnCC

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ah, what I always think of as the ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ song because I haven’t really followed pop music since about 1986 and only heard of it when people were chanting that.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

IYKYK as the young people say.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You have a very over-exaggerated idea of my linguistic skills! I’m relatively fluent in German, can get by in French, have a reasonable reading knowledge of Spanish and Latin, have forgotten most of my Ancient Greek, and have recently developed a rudimentary grasp of Swedish.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🤣 (You’re talking to the woman who, until spreadsheets did it for me, spent ages at work working out currency conversions incredibly slowly. And don’t get me started on long division.)

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There’s probably finance and therefore maths involved so almost certainly not.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ernest was staring at the wall and desperately waiting for the invention of television so that he could watch the match live from home. If only he had known that it would have been infinitely worse seeing it live than hearing the result by telegraph a bit later.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the other hand, I would be completely rubbish at all the town clerking and venue management.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Me watching Cars years ago with my brother and (for the sake of small obsessed) Nephew. Brother: So this one is the town doctor. Me: But he’s a car! Brother: And she’s a lawyer Me: But she’s a car! The racing car being a car was fine but how are other cars doing actual jobs? It’s mad.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Not sure why there’s a weird question mark after my forename, but I am apparently now certified as carbon literate, so thanks to @carbonliteracy.bsky.social for that.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As a side-note, one of my colleagues wrote to various media outlets to correct them because they described the gift as a manuscript when it is in fact a printed book. Most of them changed it, but Reuters are still hanging in there with 'manuscript'.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Look at this little chap from BL Zweig MS 215. I’d never seen him before but he’s an utter joy.

Drawing of a man whose body is made up of musical instruments

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And here’s a job I didn’t know existed!

Back of a van with a mockup of an English Heritage blue plaque announcing that it belongs to Trevor Ramsay, their official blue plaque installer.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Went to see a blue plaque unveiled today commemorating Stefan Zweig. A very good event followed by a reception at the Austrian Ambassador’s residence and a display of manuscripts from Zweig’s collection at the BL.

A curtain on a wall covering a plaque waiting to be unveiled

A blue plaque on the wall of a building commemorating the fact that Stefan Zweig lived there between 1936 and 1939.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A banned writer. A rebel printer. A fake place of publication. Discover how Pietro Aretino's works continued to circulate despite censorship, and what one remarkable book reveals about queer literary history. Read more here: link.bl.uk/oge

Portrait of Aretino from an Italian edition of the Ragionamenti (Venice, 1539) C.133.d.12.

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Job alert! British Library seeks a Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts DL 12 July tinyurl.com/25fs9kun #medievalMSS

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love it when you post things where I only have the remotest idea what you’re on about. (Yes I know there’s big football going on but still 🤷‍♀️)

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Blue biros are evil. They are also every conference or book fair freebie biro. Why don’t they give out black biros that are actually useful. (But could you write over the blue biro entries in black fibre tip and carry on from there?)

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There’s at least one other wise pea hater on the thread.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Yeah this is the original childhood nightmare music which I now hear as iconic because I’m 58 rather than 8. But it still makes me want to hide behind the sofa a bit.

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