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Come say hello! We have tiny canvases and pots to paint your nature-themed patterns on 🥰 We’re here until 4pm ✨🎨

Absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for the W&A Working Class Writers Prize! Exceedingly grateful to Writers & Artists for the opportunity! ✨ writersandartists.co.uk/advice/shortli…

Christmas as #AnneBoleyn saw it. Illuminations of The Nativity as seen in Anne’s two Books of Hours, housed at her home of @HeverCastle. Merry Christmas, all 🎄

Honoured to be runner-up in this year's W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize! Huge congrats to winner James Connolly, fellow runner-up Rachel Anderson and everyone shortlisted and longlisted. The whole experience has been a lovely early Christmas present and I'm excited for 2025!

Every time Wallace & Gromit is on I think about baby Gromit and I want to cry

A big congratulations to Durham University's historian of medicine and society Rachel Anderson on the publication of 'The Lancaster Plague Petitions' in the recent most recent issue of American Historical Review! IMEMS Durham British Society for the History of Science #hstm academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

The poem 'The Temple of Fame' written by 18th century poet Alexander Pope, includes a handwritten poem addressing Martha Blount. We don't know if their relationship was romantic but the inscription is intimate. Find this & more in the Provenance exhib, L2 Philip Robinson Library

Who remembers playing sports at Close House as a Newcastle University Student? For #ThrowbackThursday here are 4 freshly digitised images of Close House in the 1960s. Close House was ownded by the University until 2004. Ref. NUA/40279 and NUA/42497.

#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience We have a mystery in the archives?Who is this female mathematician who has a mention in the history of the Turbinia Discovery Museum?This letter addressed to her father does not personally mention her name. Read more blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/2016/…

📢 My article on parents' letters to/about ill children is out in an exciting special issue, 'Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', ed. Emily Rhodes & Alice Whitehead. It's full of fantastic contributions to the history of parenting! 👇 tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/30/1

Delighted to announce that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections! ✨ A big thank you goes to my lovely examiners Jonathan Healey and Amanda Herbert for being so kind and giving such thoughtful feedback! Time for cake! 🍰

It’s officially publication day for “Edinburgh’s Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660” ! Can’t wait to receive author copies 🎉 You can order your copy here: routledge.com/Edinburghs-Unr… Routledge Books

Brilliant work! Here's several items we've received back from conservation to help preserve them for future generations, including Vesalius' Fabric of the Human Body (1555) - like brand new!

Can you help? One of our Bequest students is working with our Civil War Tracts (early published items relating to the English Civil War). She's came across the note at the bottom of page, we think it might be a date (21 Sept 1646), but is it? Ref. Bradshaw 942.062 LET

#ArchiveFoodAndDrink In need of some inspiration for Easter bakes? Flick through Jane Loraine's 17th century recipe book which contains approx. 620 culinary & medicinal recipes, including spice-cake, curd loaf & cheesecakes collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collec… #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Explore plans from the Sir Terry Farrell Archive in this digital exhibition 'Making a Museum' which looks into the Great North Museum: Hancock 's building design speccollstories.ncl.ac.uk/the-making-of-… #archivebuildings @archive30 ARA Scotland

New on CollectionsCaptured is Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets, with the author's own hand coloured copy of illustrated ballads with press cutting, reviews & correspondence inserted collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collec…

NHSN have since departed Twitter, but sharing this lovely event here on the off chance any writer friends would be interested! Stephanie is fabulous and I will be on hand to provide tea and cakes! Please do feel free to share! Register here: bit.ly/nhsnflashficti… ✨