OVID's METAMORPHOSES 1717 DRYDEN CONGREVE ROWE GAY POPE GARTH 1st ENGRAVINGS #books #antiquarian #firstedition #Ovid #Metamorphoses #Dryden #Congreve #engravings #17thcentury #bookauction bit.ly/42k7Fjc

FINE BINDING 1892 TENNYSON 1st FORESTERS : ROBIN HOOD & MAID MARIAN Gilt #books #antiquarian #finebinding #firstedition #Tennyson #play #theatre #RobinHood #bookauction bit.ly/44xgmIe

“London is a World by it self. We daily discover in it more New Countries, and Surprising Singularities, than in all of the Universe besides” Tom Brown, London Amusements, 1700 1st #books #18thcentury #London #tour #fashion #follies #satire #bookauction bit.ly/4itTUTM

MEDICINA STATICA 1737 SANTORIO KEIL QUINCY DISEASE FEVERS MEDICINE #book #auction #18thcentury #medicine #histmed #disease #fever #bookauction bit.ly/441JFmf

Some of the rare & antiquarian books we have for auction this week. #antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #religion #philosophy #maps #law #topography #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompedl…

Rare ROMANE HISTORIE 1659 LIVY Florus ROME Freinshemius PHILEMON HOLLAND #books #antiquarian #17thcentury #history #rarebooks #Rome #Roman #Livy #Florus #English #bookauction bit.ly/3RW6DDU

ARTHUR HILDERSAM 1629 LECTURES FOURTH OF JOHN Gospel PURITAN 1st Provenance: Henry Hastings, Royalist soldier, member The Sealed Knot #rarebooks #17thcentury #religion #gospels #puritan #firstedition #Christian The Sealed Knot #lectures #bookauction bit.ly/4jiAa6K

DISSERTATION on BATH WATERS 1707 OLIVER 1st SPRINGS HEALTH DISEASE MEDICINE #books #antiquarian #history #18thcentury #Bath #Somerset #health #medicine #spa #histmed #springs #disease #sleep #bookauction bit.ly/3YEs4gw

IT’S AUCTION DAY! Antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time) #antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompedl…

IT’S AUCTION DAY! Antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time) #antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompedl…

Pierre Ionica, Dante's Hell Under Mont Saint Michel

'View of Westminster from across the River Thames at Dusk' by Nathan Theodore Fielding (1747-c.1814) (Private collection)

Doggy #doodle at the back of a Latin vocabulary from 1566.

Check out the latest blog in our series, Adam Bridgen on 'Thomas Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)', now live on the MMoR website here bit.ly/3YRjQle #earlymodern #histmed King's History

Tickets are on sale now for our spring online lecture series, starting in May. Four top historians over successive weeks on aspects of the 1600s, this time covering subjects from radical republicans, religious groups and the outbreak of the civil war... cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromwel…

Have you ever been told a story in an English pub? If so, please consider filling in this survey by one of my Folklore Studies MA students, who's seeking to understand the role of English pub culture in contemporary storytelling: forms.office.com/e/8tX4g94L6u

🔊 LISTEN: As ever, our choristers in Magdalen College Choir sang Hymnus Eucharisticus from Magdalen Tower this morning to herald the start of May Day🎶👇 We hope everyone enjoyed the celebrations!🎉

Our new exhibit is now open!

Delighted that my book "Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736-1951" (1999) is getting a makeover this autumn after 26 years! Liking the new cover. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192660/