A small plea to UCAS: your changes to the personal statement make good sense but can you avoid encouraging bad habits of ugly English? The Americanism 'outside of' has a graceless overload of prepositions: 'beyond' is much simpler, and neater. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Friends, a request. I am writing a short para on left-handed scribes (medieval and early modern) and it strikes me that the later modern period was less enlightened. So, your tales please of relatives or others who were forced out of left-handedness at school. Thank you!

I was very sorry not to be there to congratulate all these MEMS stars and hope they had a great day.

The Tower of Babel as it was envisaged in early fifteenth-century England (National Library of Scotland MS. Adv. 33.3.1, fol. 20v).

One more week to send your abstracts to [email protected]! MEDIUM ÆVUM MEMRN MEMS

Know All.

Just a few days to go - do send your abstract: it would be great to see you in Canterbury.

You ain't going to get in my way (Magdalen Libraries & Archives MS. lat. 54).

I think I might have been an unpleasant surprise to this doorway at St Paul's, Coughton.

Not a bad place to have to visit.

Friends in the UK, help me. How do you justify our still being here when by doing so we are aiding and abetting an enemy of liberal democracy?

Quite agree - each of us individually can have little impact but organisations, companies and institutions can hit harder.

When the moon hits your eye like a big....

Must say The Other Place (where there are no clouds) seems to be getting a lot of newcomers these past few days. And I now post there my manuscript pics. No correlation implied.

Over where the heavens have no clouds, I am sharing photos from this church. You may recognise it - if not, go over there for identification...

Not a bad view from outside this archive.

Just writing the captions for some of the items that Canterbury Cathedral is kindly going to display tomorrow - those coming to Bookscapes Workshops MediumAevum Books across Borders are in for a treat!

Though I am mainly posting in The Other Place, as this Dr Eleanor Baker, who is well-known here, here she is as our first afternoon speaker Bookscapes Workshops Books across Borders funded by CHASE DTP and hosted MEMS, in conjunction with MEDIUM ÆVUM