Good luck

Tacitus, Opera, [Milan: Antonius Zarotus, c.1487] The Queen's College sel.a.293 #incunable

With former stamp inked out -- cross and sheafs?

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20. p.s. Just b/c it's cool: Here's the diary entry for September 18, 1787, for James McHenry, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Maryland: Note that he underlined, when he wrote it, the last part of 'A republic replied the Doctor, if you can keep it.'

Digitising the Victoria County History for British History Online is a massive project. So we’re really excited to advertise this internship. It will be a wonderful opportunity for someone to be part of the team & gain practical experience of the processes involved in a big #digitalhumanities project

Transatlantic spelling compromise

If you can be in Oxford on 20 June, please do come along. Thanks to Bodleian Libraries for this honour, and to Wadham College and Queen's College Library whose books I will be discussing

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More Germania: Rome: Johannes Schurener, [c.1473]. The Queen's College sel.a.74 #incunable

(Rhodes dates to c. 1478)

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Come work with me! 🧐PhD project in partnership with Bodleian Libraries Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800 #PhDlife coventry.ac.uk/research/resea…

She's back (after some conservation)!

It’s that time of year again

Success is leaving people wanting more. The sad closure of the what works wellbeing centre leaves a gap that will be keenly felt. Its final report is in link. Congrats to Nancy Hey and her great team for leaving such a valuable legacy
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‘accidents happen, sometimes even to whales’

Typical Clarke & Bedford binding for Tacitus, Germania, [Nuremberg: Freidrich Creussner, c. 1473-4]. The Queen's College sel.a.291 #Incunable

And what a typeface (1:110G)

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no. 3

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Yah, it’s #ThesisFair2024 Day!

2nd year UG Oxford History UGs, come along to find sources & inspiration for your thesis. Over 50 academics, archivists & librarians from @OxfordHistory, Bodleian Libraries, colleges libraries & more will be there to help you.😃
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You Groovy Lovely People! We are lucky enough to nearly have a full run of the legendary OZ Magazine Bishopsgate Institute but are missing issues 1, 14, 22 and 26-27. Can you help?? We would dig you forever, you cool cats!

Intended for Jamaica Exhibition opens on the 10 May to 24 Aug details here links in bio.

The new work is responding to archives in the Boulton & Watt Collection relating to the sale of steam engines to sugar plantations in Jamaica
#sugarlandjamaica
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We’ve now restarted the transfer of collection items between our two sites, which means researchers in St Pancras can order items from Boston Spa, and vice versa.

You still need to visit in person and complete paper forms to order collection items at the moment, but this means…