The conference - "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" - will be held at St. Hilda's College, 7-9th Sept 2022. The aim this year is to arm delegates with the tools to tell new stories with existing collections, collecting to tell untold stories, & to meet uncomfortable stories head on.

Wow! Many thanks to all for the organising that’s gone on behind these exhibitions.

In the reading room today, a researcher was looking at various engravings of Donati's comet from Memoirs of the RAS articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1862MmRAS.… (and the original metal plates, which we've shared before).

Great thread about a new acquisition of a wonderful set of astronomical cards known as Urania's Mirror at Linda Hall Library

Taking part in this exciting new Artists’ Book Fair this coming weekend in the centre of Bristol. Wonderful group of artists and great books- come and see!

It's HERE!!! Feels somewhat like Christmas morning. Are those who arrived yesterday up yet? Who's in for breakfast? When is everyone arriving? Will it all work as intended? SUCH EXCITEMENT.

Looking forward to this!

Publishing through his imprint Zeth since 1984, Norwegian writer and publisher (and performance, video & installation artist) Kurt Johannessen uses text & image to make books that are minimal, poetic and sometimes funny. Find him at #smallpublishersfair22 bitly.ws/uHvm

It's the second (and last) day of #smallpublishersfair22: 69 UK and international publishers, special exhibition, readings & talks (today's line-up: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/readings-talks…). FREE, all welcome Saturday 29 October (11am-7pm), Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Happy New Year! If you're a person who loves bookshops, please RT this & help us spread the word about London Bookshop Crawl 2023, February 17th-19th. Explore the bookshops of London! bookshopcrawl.co.uk #LondonBookshopCrawl #bookshopcrawl

I was having a chat with RAS Journals earlier about #BlackHoleWeek Here's the first drawing of a black hole by Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1979 images.cnrs.fr/photo/19990001… This is from an article in A&A journal available on SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1979A%26A.…

Book launch: Letterpress printing: past present and future, Thursday 23 June. Many chapters, one is mine :) cphc.org.uk/events/2023/6/…

.Eye magazine 104 features a 14 page article about Matrix / The Whittington Press. I’m honoured (and very surprised) to be included within it. Thank you.

The RAS bicentenary patchwork quilt is on display at The Royal Society for the Stitching the Stars workshop led by Annie H tomorrow evening - all are welcome to add beads to the RAS Solar System quilt! royalsociety.org/science-events… #SummerScience

Beautiful exhibition and great conversations with some of the artists.

79 days to go to win scrollprize.org. So many pre AD 79 possibilities: Livy's lost histories or missing plays by Aristophanes, Ovid's Medea, Suetonius on famous whores or how to swear in Greek, or even Claudius on playing dice. Or things we've never even heard of...

It’s going to be a great weekend, such a variety of artists books in one place.