⭐️We are hiring! ⭐️ Do you have a passion for historic documents? The Whipple Museum is seeking an archivist with experience working with historic documents to catalogue the Museum's archival material to sector standards. Apply below: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47610/

Remarkable to see the manuscript draft of the Arecibo Message, designed by Frank Drake and other astronomers and beamed into space from the Arecibo radio telescope 50 years ago seti.org/seti-institute…

We're delighted to be able to announce our great speaker list for 2024-5 -- bibliographers, artists, textual scholars, book historians, book trade specialists, librarians, rare book cataloguers ... All talks in person and online: please come along! 📚

‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799), who was a Japanese painter of the Maruyama school. Medium: Ink on paper, Edo Period.

More animals from the pages of early-modern Japanese books. Detail from a page of an illustrated edition of 'Essays in Idleness' (Tsurezuregusa). 17th century woodcut with hand colouring.

The latest in a series of investigations of archival sunspot data by Hawaykawa et al.

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

Don't miss this online talk organised by The Linnean Society of London, featuring Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' Mark Watson and Claire Banks: Illustrating Indian Nature | The Work of Buchanan-Hamilton and Haludar - 5 November 2pm GMT - eventbrite.co.uk/e/illustrating…. #botanicalillustration

Come see us on Sept 21, Saturday, all day! It is Open House 2024, we have nature craft activities, a 'Hidden Treasure' trail around Burlington House, and our new exhibition 'From Woodblocks to X-rays'! No need to book. Open House Festival programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/2074

I love this. The⁩ complete reading list for #MurderByTheBook exhibition published ⁦Cambridge University Library⁩ featuring 100 British crime novels selected by ⁦⁦⁦Nicola Upson 🏳️‍🌈⁩. If you need your next summer read… look right here!❤️#LoveLibraries lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/murder…

The British Library Collections Trust is organising a fascinating evening showcasing recent acquisitions by the British Library on 19 September at 7pm: New Treasures of the British Library: a Playlist. Please come and RT: …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/new-trea…

Closing Friday! It's your last chance to see our #FreeExhibition on changing views of nature in the revolutionary age. Visit 10am-5pm Tues-Friday. More at linnean.org/research-colle… The exhibition is a collaboration with Edwin Rose and Staffan Müller-Wille at Cambridge University.

Wow!

It me! Please come. I have at least three good facts about Elizabeth Blackwell and a lovely book to show off. Put me on in the background while you’re doing something else.

Faust I

The #Women #Weaving class on the #Bauhaus stairs, Dessau, 1927.

“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.” Virginia Woolf

📣 Registration is now open for the CILIP Library and Information History Group Conference 2024: Libraries, Archives and Natural History taking place at the The Linnean Society of London on October 4. The conference is being held in association with our journal, #ArchivesofNaturalHistory BOOK 🔗 : eventbrite.com/e/cilip-lihg-c…

This should be interesting! theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Any day now.