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UCL Art Librarian

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Located at UCL Main Library and UCL Special Collections. History & theory of fine art, film, sound, artists' magazines, artists' books, alternative presses, word/image.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/08/2026
‘Part of the pleasure of the books is that they present us with a less ethereal version of Woolf than we usually encounter. More granite, less rainbow.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the books that Virginia Woolf made at the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press
‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s...
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The call for applications for the UCL Small Press in Residence 2026 is now open. The residency is hosted by @uclspeccoll.bsky.social in collaboration with the @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social and @uclpublishing.bsky.social Please share: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Call for Small Press in Residence 2026 | UCL UCL Special Collections
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The call for applications for the UCL Small Press in Residence 2026 is now open. The residency is hosted by @uclspeccoll.bsky.social in collaboration with the @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social and @uclpublishing.bsky.social Please share: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A new publication celebrating 200 years of UCL is freely available via UCL press. See pages 74-75 for the Small Press Collections. uclpress.co.uk/book/ucl-at-...
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UCL at 200
A commemorative volume marking UCL’s 200th anniversary, exploring two centuries of openness, discovery and global impact. Featuring insights from over 100 contributors, it reflects on UCL’s progressiv...
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Due to illness we have unfortunately had to cancel this event. We hope to reschedule for Spring 2026.
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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In 2025 UCL Special Collections celebrates 60 years of collecting small press. This year also marks 50 years of publishing by Coracle Press @coracle.bsky.social Join us for a birthday bash! 12 November 17:00 - 20:00 Free & open to all / booking essential. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...
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We continue to wave a small handkerchief at the world: Coracle Press @ 50
Join us to celebrate 50 years of Coracle Press!
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Happy National Poetry Day! For more information on the @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Poetry Store visit www.ucl.ac.uk/library/spec...
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This year's exhibition at Small Publishers Fair (24 & 25 October) draws on several decades of work by artist and writer Erica Van Horn, who has been a participant at the Fair since the beginning. Details of the exhibition can be found here: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/exhibition-2...
Illustration from a post card announcing an installation of books by Erica Van Horn at Franklin Furnace, NYC in 1986
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We're really excited to be working with Monitor Books as our inaugural @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Small Press in Residence! www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...
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2025 Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections
Monitor Books is the 2025 UCL Small Press in Residence. They are developing a publishing project that engages with our collections and will feed into our small press 60th anniversary celebrations
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon. Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/
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UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science @ucllccos.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.
A display case in Senate House containing items from UCL Special Collections.Coins and print materials in a display case.A variety of print materials in a display case at Senate House Library.
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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
During July and August, ‘spineless’ items from our Small Press Collections are on display ‪@senatehouselib.bsky.social‬ and can be seen as part of the wider Spineless Wonders exhibition there. Free & open to all! Many thanks to our friends at Senate House for having us! Image by Christos Fotelis
A selection of small, ephemeral items by Beau Geste Press, displayed in an exhibition case against a blue background. Items include two matchboxes and a selection pf paper ephemera made of both white and purple paper.
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A small exhibition of material from the @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Small Press Collections is on at @senatehouselib.bsky.social until 31/8, complementary to their excellent Spineless Wonders. If you can't make it to SHL, here's a online guide to all the exhibits: sway.cloud.microsoft/tWg56jeuiFaQ...
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Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL
The 1960s was a period of unprecedented access to affordable printing technologies for writers, artists, and activists; commercial offset printing had become more economically viable and workplace tec
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Our amazing Cavan McCarthy / Tlaloc archive in @uclspeccoll.bsky.social has been catalogued by our brilliant Archives and Records Management placement student. All the deets here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Cavan McCarthy Archive | UCL UCL Special Collections
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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
THIS THIS THIS!
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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Interested in artists' magazines, experimental poetry journals and countercultural press? This one-day course on 23rd May explores some of UCLs most out-there periodicals. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...
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Magazines, Art and Experiment
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Its #nationalpoetrymonth , so download free PDFs of everything i've written: derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/ (or please do support the publishers & buy a book: derekbeaulieu.ca/buy-my-work/ )
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Kaja Marczewska @kajamarczewska.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Call for a Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Very good contextual piece on DSH.
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
10 days to go until the first Spineless Wonders event at Aberystwyth School of Art! 14 Mar: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection & Off The Shelf–Performing The Collection 15 Mar: Workshop, creative writing & making Info & booking 🔗👇 shorturl.at/By0c7
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Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art
Spineless Wonders Exhibition of Small Press Publications, Words and Images: Re:Collection: Out of the Collection: School of Art, (SOA) Aberystwyth University, also runs 10 March–6 May 2025 (check Abe...
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception 6-7 March, UCL Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We had such a great day at our @uclspeccoll.bsky.social event last week celebrating 60 years of small press and mimeography at UCL. Thanks to everyone who came along and got stuck in. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...
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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni... #London #RareBooks #Archives
Open Morning. March 7th, 10 - 12pm. UCL Bloomsbury, South Junction reading Room, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT. At top of graphic is the cover of a suffragette publication featuring a purple and green logo and an angel blowing a trumpet while holding a banner which reads "freedom"
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
download PDFs of Poor.Old.Tired.Horse (1962-68), one of the most important visual poetry magazines internationally. (courtesy @ubuweb.bsky.social : www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old....)
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The next Spineless Wonders event takes place on Friday 14th March. 'Conversing, traversing, translating the collection' - online via Zoom, 2pm–4:30pm. Exhibition, readings, and performances in person at Aberystwyth School of Art. Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events...
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Slade School of Fine Art - Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art
Free, book via Eventbrite.
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Join us for a free day of mimeo printing, talks, and performance in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...
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The revolution will be stencilled! Mimeography and Small Press at UCL
Join us for a day of mimeo printing and talks in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL.
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If you're interested in dsh we have many fabulous examples in the UCL Small Press Collections: library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/art/special-... UCL Special Collections are open to all.
concrete poetry by dshconcrete poetry by dshconcrete poetry publication by dsh
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Sounds Clips @soundsclips.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
An article on Fanzines by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, January 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Last session of the year for History of Art BA Prints & Printmaking module. Any excuse to get the record player out! #flexidisc #aspen #velvetunderground
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It was brilliant to meet up with Women's Wrongs, UCL's intersectional feminist zine soc, last week to look at recent small press publications. You can read their zine at womenswrongs.cheesegratermagazine.org
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/11/2024
Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world
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Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world
An aspiring young artist’s journey makes for a critique of the art world, in novel form The White Pube, the collaborative identity of critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, have always pushed hard at the idea of art criticism. The name is a…
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Looking forward to this exhibition of experimental visual poetry at the Estorick, starting in Jan. Exhibits taken from the Fondazione Bonotto collection of Fluxus, concrete, visual, sound poetry. www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/...
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Breaking Lines: The World Wide Poetry Network, 1900 - 2000 - Works from the Bonotto Collection - Estorick Collection
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