If you've got what it takes to run Chetham's Library and its designated collection of #RareBooks and MSS, apply to be our Librarian. We're looking for someone with qualifications in librarianship, archiving or heritage management.

library.chethams.com/about/job-vaca…

Absolutely delighted to be speaking at this exciting conference in February. Do come and join us! 😁

Free registration for my conference on Revivalism held Welsh School of Architecture on 19 Feb. 2024 & funded by the The British Academy ECRN is now live: tickettailor.com/events/earlyca…. I look forward to welcoming people to #cardiff to think about recreations of the past!

I'm honoured that the The British Academy ECRN has generously supported my conference, Revivalism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, to be held at Welsh School of Architecture on 19 February 2024. Registration for BAECRN members will open shortly via TicketTailor.

Highlights from this week’s #teaching include delivering a second rare books session on overseas #architecture : learning by seeing, doing, and touching! What a wonderful #library , library staff, and #rarebooks collection we have at the Welsh School of Architecture

Tudor, C17, and C18 architecture, latter after designs by John Chute (gent. architect that co-designed Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House & Garden) plus heraldry; perfect collection of periods at the National Trust TheVyne; great context to start my Arts and Humanities Research Council project based at Welsh School of Architecture

Just under two weeks left to submit paper proposals for my #academic #conference on Revivalism held Welsh School of Architecture on 19 Feb. 24. All proposals should be sent to me directly. #CfP attached.

Teaching using rare books in the Welsh School of Architecture collections. Amazing resources at our fingertips! #architecture #classicalarchitecture

Tagging up rare-book teaching material in the Strong Room for my Welsh School of Architecture hands-on session looking at Globalized C19 Modernism on Monday. #architecturalhistory #architecture

Some magical ancient #woodwork , and #funerary monuments, with #heraldry galore, in the #medieval parish church of St John the Baptist, #Cardiff .

I’m delighted to be contributing to this year’s Oxford Bibliographical Society programme of talks.

The Welsh School of Architecture has also retained it's top three spot in the Times & The Sunday Times #GoodUniversityGuide for the second year running 🥳

Gloriously suspended coat of arms, here in Durham.

Ydych chi'n ymuno â ni fel myfyriwr blwyddyn gyntaf y mis hwn?

Dyma rai argymhellion ar gyfer llyfrau yr hoffech eu hystyried wrth ddechrau meddwl am bensaernïaeth.

This evening I gave a lecture on Strawberry Hill’s #Gothic #architecture and #designs at The Georgian Group, Fitzroy Square, London. Wonderful audience with many questions, and genuine encouragement.

Visited St Andrew’s, Dinas Powys, on the way home today (via Llantwit Major); wonderful medieval church, buttressed tower, but sadly locked up. Nevertheless, another local example of architectural heritage inspected and toured.

As part of the campaign to save Liverpool Street Station, we launch a crowdfunding campaign to aid LISSCA’s fight against Network Rail’s heritage-wrecking plans.

Find out more on how this will support the campaign: justgiving.com/campaign/savel…

#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

Anyone who would like to receive information on how to order a copy of the 512 page Proceedings of the 35th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences (which I recently finished editing) please contact me via [email protected] #heraldry

Heralds’ weakness for puns gives an insight into contemporary pronunciation. Thomas Bedford (bear foot). Argent three lions' gambs erased and erect within a bordure engrailed Sable. Crest: A demi lion Sable ducally crowned Or holding an orb Or. #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

Just hit SEND on my article ‘John van Collema: an India goods merchant in London’. If you’re interested in 17th century porcelain, retailing or Anglo-Dutch merchant networks, this is one for you! Coming to RKD Studies in Spring 2024, open access.