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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If you are in Bristol over the next couple of days. Pop into Central Library and catch the Medieval Manuscripts exhibition whilst you can. Ends Friday 19 December!

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Here’s something to look forward to! In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition! 🗓️ 4-18 December

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It’s Special Collections Sunday this weekend. If you are in Bristol and fancy seeing some cool old books - head to Central Library for a bloomin’ marvellous afternoon. Sunday 22 June 2-4pm.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’ve been working on the next Special Collections Sunday display. The theme is Animals in old books - and this is by far my favourite animal in a book. Come meet this guy Sunday 2 March anytime between 2-4pm at Bristol Central Library 📚 🦛 🦏 🦒 🐅 🐘 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-co...

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Damn! I missed International Zebra Day … a day late but here’s a C19th prancing Zebra.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

How well do you know Bristol? Can you help identify these streets? 📷 At Bristol Libraries we are sorting through hundreds of old slides from the Local Studies Collection. They are a great snapshot of the city in 60s, 70s and 80s but many are not labelled! #Bristol

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Here’s a blast from the past!

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

What’s in a name? Tomorrow’s Special Collections Sunday at Bristol Central Library is all about old pubs of Bristol. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm. One of the pubs highlighted is the Fourteen Stars (demolished 1857) - but we aren’t sure how the pub got its name. Can anyone help? …

Engraving of an old building. Fourteen Stars pub.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

20 things I liked in 2024 : Hanging out with friends and family 😎 My birthday party 🎉 Whiskey night 🥃 Burns night (not haggis - did not like that) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Making Brucelets ✋ Random dogs 🐕 Agatha Christie audiobooks 📚 Arthur (he liked the haggis) 🐶 Tea and cake on Tuesdays 🍰 Lots of tea 🫖 …

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I opted to stay in and bring the pub to me last night. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

We’ll have some interesting old Christmassy themed things on display at Bristol Central Library tomorrow. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm #Bristol #BristolLibraries #SpecialCollectionsSunday

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

In need of some Christmas gift ideas?

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Triptych. Dog stubbornly refusing to go for a walk.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If I could time travel for one day only, I’d go to 18 November 1975, Hammersmith. 🤔 Where would you go?

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A book shelf on my bookshelf. 🤔

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

If you are in Bristol on Saturday pop into Central Library. Meet the curator & learn more about the exhibition ‘This Revolution in the Town’: The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840 🗓️ Saturday 28 September 🕰️ Drop in between 10am-2pm. 📚 Books on display in the Bristol Room. tinyurl.com/sst4yvyk

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'This Revolution in the Town': The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840

Meet the curator. Explore the history of the Bristol Library Society, its readers and the books they borrowed.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Much to the annoyance of my colleagues I’ve come up with a Book of the Week jingle (to the tune of Blankety Blank) and dance (more of a shuffle) every week whilst putting out Book of the Week … 😊

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

I’ve just had a nice cuppa sat on the balcony reading all about women’s devotional literary culture in medieval Bristol - by Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy, featuring manuscripts from from Bristol Central Library 😊 📚

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‘A lodging most meetest . . . chosen for a poor widow . . . in my old days’: Glimpsing Women’s Devotional Literary Culture in Bristol through its Late-Medieval Manuscripts | Women's Literary Culture ...

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

There’s a lunchtime lecture at Bristol Central Library tomorrow at 12.30 ‘Mary Anning's astonishing ichthyosaur’ by Deborah Hutchinson. If you are in Bristol Come along! I’m so excited I made a Lego Mary Anning 😊

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Just in case you need a recipe ‘To perplex a Witch’ From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I love this book cover. It’s also lovingly tattered and worn with use. Read and re-read over years no doubt.

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

‘A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination.’

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

May I recommend this free online talk, tomorrow Wednesday 11 October 7pm. It’s about this lovely Book of Hours and the woman who owned it, Isabella Ruddock-Clyve. www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-arch...

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I’m very sad. With Vauxhall Bridge closing this is my last day commuting to work on the ferry. Bah!

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Came across this photo in the library with the caption : ‘The cataloguing department in the 1930’s. Miss Milden and Miss Evans spring into action following the arrival of new books’. It amused me.

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