Star of Bethlehem in bloom amongst forget-me-nots!

Sir Thomas Bodley’s motto was 'Quarta perennis'.

Which means 'The fourth will last forever' - referring to the Bodleian being the 'fourth' library built in Oxford.

It could arguably be read as...'May the fourth last forever.'

Happy #StarWarsDay !

#MayThe4th

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Wonderful lineup!

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And Eric Cline Eric H. Cline on Linear B!

Ruha Benjamin and Princeton faculty witnesses set the record straight on the peaceful Clio Hall sit-in in solidarity with the 13 arrested participants.

Read their statement now: bit.ly/ptonsolidarity

Effanineffably wonderful thread!

Happy May Morning! The choir is singing the @magdalencollege hymn from the College tower. I’m in the Oxford Botanic Garden @obgha with lots of other people watching and listening

Murmurations in Rome (& Italy more widely) give substantive content to the augury in pagan Roman religion.

Apply!

Applications are now OPEN for the Myrto Georgakopoulou Award!

An international research award established by the BSA to honour Myrto Georgakopoulou (1976-2022).

Deadline: 21st June 2024

Find out more at the link below:

bsa.ac.uk/2024/04/25/the…

As we ventured South last night… it struck me how dark it really is over the South Atlantic Ocean. Even with a bright moon behind us I’d never seen so many stars. I think even from 40,000ft you can also see a bit of the earths curvature. It was truly breathtaking. #nofilter …

So excited to receive my own copy of this today! ⁦Eric H. Cline⁩ ⁦Glynnis Fawkes⁩

What does healing from trauma look like?

I was invited by the Royal College of Physicians, centuries old prestigious organisation of 30 medical specialties, to open their annual conference 'Medicine 24' with a keynote in front of thousands of esteemed attendees, nationally and…

Well done Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 ! Off now to buy a hard copy of today’s Observer The Guardian

A really important piece about finding First Nations children’s graves in Canada — usually victims of the residential school system

A.E. Stallings Alicia E. Stallings, our Professor of Poetry, will be giving her next lecture on 9 May at 5.30pm in Examination Schools. The title of the talk is: 'Pirates, poets, & 'plagiarism': How #Byron translated & was translated by Greek poetry & reality'. english.ox.ac.uk/event/professo…

Wonderful to hear #hoopoes and #nightingales !

If you’re in the area next week, I’ll be speaking about Afropean and some of the resulting ideas that emerged from the book around the notion of the ‘B-Side’, that I’m currently teaching at the University of Bern

Wonderful thread about libraries and one in particular, the House of Wisdom In Baghdad