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I implore all cis people to read this.

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Semi-regular reminder that if you have published on one of the Bodleian's medieval manuscripts, we'd love to know about it via this form forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... Items will be added to our Zotero bibliography, which is linked to our online manuscript catalogue.

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How fitting that my episode on Tyndale with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social arrives on #internationaltranslationday Tyndale's English New Testament was the first to translate from Greek into English, and his Pentateuch the first from Hebrew into English. Listen to learn more about Tyndale's life...

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Episode 362 - William Tyndale & the English Bible with Dr Harry Spillane

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As ever on point @rschon.bsky.social! Reading abt next steps for rare materials digitization +access I'm feeling *so* good abt @jcblibrary.bsky.social's work. nb when I call cataloging ->digitzation workflow* my main achievment & they think I'm kidding. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/29/a...

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Are libraries prepared for the second digital transformation of distinctive collections?

Academic and research libraries, as well as public libraries, historical societies, and other organizations, hold extensive collections of rare and unique materials, such as archival and manuscript co...

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why you don't just dig things up. Look at the amazing info we've got now: We know how it was all placed in ground & we have all of it, none damaged & conservation possible both as excavated & after. We can also look at the soil, for organics, pollen etc. #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow: “To be a librarian is to dance along the cracks of the institution, engaged in a thousand small teaching acts.” Good thing this is OA or I’ll soon be in violation of copyright.

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #TengriSky A crucial addition to your teaching files: Traveling to the “Tartars”: Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245–1248, Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Alfred J. Andrea. Supersedes Dawson's 1955 Mission to Asia. hackettpublishing.com/traveling-to... 🗃️

Cover of Alfred J. Andrea, trans., Traveling to the 'Tartars': Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245-1248, published by Hackett (2026)

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This was less than three years ago. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2394267...

An article from The Herald titled “Celtic Studies students make the happiest graduates”, dated 23rd November 2023. The header image is a picture of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.

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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Heartbreaking to see this at my alma mater.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For the morning crowd, this gift link should work.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 15/09/2026

This is the first time a CFP has made me smile in a long time. Funding for "funding to support Pockets of Joy (PoJs)—micro-communities created by students, for students, and for no other purpose than to be together and find joy in the process of collaborative, creative inquiry." #DHmakes

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Pockets of Joy – Stanford Arts

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 09/09/2026

From 11-13 September, the Bodleian will open up spaces and show off collections not usually accessible to the public, for #OxfordOpenDoors 2026! Enjoy tours, storytelling, a Victorian printing press, and MUCH more. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oxfor… We can't wait to see you!

An open gateway at the Bodleian Library with a silhouette walking through it

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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tonight the truly brilliant folks in the Baskerville Small Performances project are introducing the new Baskerville Punch font, based on the imaging, RTI, and archaeometallurgic research carried out over the past two years in this project. The type designers are Riccardo Olocco and Michele Patane.

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

16 October 2026, 11.00 - 15.00. Location: Lasting Impressions Gallery. (Free, drop in.) Visitors to the Museum will have the opportunity to enter this collection space, speak with the Library and Archives team, and view a selection of material from across the collections. #NaturalHistoryMuseum

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The following information has been added to the image 'Library and Archives Open Day 16 October 2026 11.00 - 15.00.'

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries

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Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...

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Dr Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m pleased to share that records for parish churches and chapels are now available on Medieval Libraries of Great Britain - mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk #provenance #manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excellent to see this ground-breaking work published. Congrats to @gingerhowley.bsky.social and team. Medieval MSS as sources for genomic discoveries.

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Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Delighted to share that recordings from the Hereford Gospels online symposium are now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Head over to get your fix of 8th/9th century manuscript mysteries!

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Hereford Gospels Symposium 2026 - YouTube

The Hereford Gospels Symposium took place online on Friday 26 June 2026. Organised by the library and archive team at Hereford Cathedral, the day of learning...

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Everything Cory Doctorow invariably makes you go "HUH!" There's every chance someone who reads this will invent something that changes the world

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Manuscript Hunters! My new project, HANDMADE, on Neil Ker & his international network of scholars is running at CESTA. Since June, three fab undergrads have used AI to list, describe, & transcribe 10,000 letters and postcards from 1933-1982. We now have an incredible resource for further analyses.

A large poster showing text and visualizations emerging from the Manuscript Hunters project on Neil Ker.

The key research questions for the Neil Ker correspondence project.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.

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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge @hpscambridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Our new exhibition 'A Most Valuable Library' is now open to the public. It tells the origin of the Whipple Library, Museum, and HPS Department through archive documents and Robert Whipple's books. The exhibition is on Level 1 of the Whipple Library, viewable from 9:15 AM to 5 PM, Monday to Friday.

A poster for an exhibition, with a collage of written and typed archival documents. Text reads: A Most Valuable Library. The Origins of the Whipple Library and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 17 August to 19 December. Whipple Library exhibition cases on Level 1.

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The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Collection Encounters are an opportunity for visitors to engage with items not normally on display. Our latest blog by Dr Josephine Tierney reflects on a conversation she had with visitors that opened the door for new research opportunities. Read the full blog here: ow.ly/Xll050ZxCMz

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wow, had never heard of this trailblazing woman…

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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/08/2026

If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details

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Genny G @cobralingus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'Fess up, how many of you were also Charlotte?

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This should be self evident but clearly isn’t. From @lewisgoodall.com

The problem is not that higher education has failed as an engine of social mobility. It is that, for too long, it has been treated as the only engine. The curriculum is not the problem which is driving our NEET malaise; the weakness of local economies is. Any Labour administration should therefore tread very carefully before dismantling any part of the comprehensive educational settlement created by the Labour governments of the 1960s. Burnham's proposals also misunderstand the multi-layered nature of the modern university, which in many cases is as likely to offer vocational courses as strictly academic ones.
In any case, let's stop the obsession with STEM subjects and
"practical" training. There is already too much snobbery in the assumption that working-class students are somehow less interested in the arts and humanities. And we've never needed those graduates more. In an age in which we are already outsourcing so much of our critical thinking to machines, and in which none of us can be entirely sure of the truth of what we see, where the world's complexity is ever deepening, subjects like philosophy, history, political science, linguistics, classics and literature have rarely been more important.
I'm sure our English graduate prime minister might agree.

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The Heraldry Society @theheraldrysociety.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A notice from The Heraldry Society concerning William Cowley the UK's last commercial parchment and vellum maker.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

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