David Macfarlane
@dmaccam.bsky.social
Digital Humanities consultant; letterpress printer; software engineer; problem solver; new Cantabrigian.
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In this edition of Meet the Fellows, we get to know @simon-beattie.bsky.social, an antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, and composer. www.sal.org.uk/2025/07/meet...
July 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In this edition of Meet the Fellows, we get to know @simon-beattie.bsky.social, an antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, and composer. www.sal.org.uk/2025/07/meet...
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Our lecture from May is now online:
Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcN...
Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcN...
Bibliographical Soc - Entitled: The Choice, Purpose & Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings
YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society
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June 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Our lecture from May is now online:
Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcN...
Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcN...
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For this month’s Council’s Choice, Daryl Green highlights the German-language wiki Buntpapier, assembled and hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a subset of their larger “ProvenienzWiki”:
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Council’s Choice for July 2025 - Bibliographical Society
Buntpapier: Beschreibung, Terminologie, Abbildungen [Coloured paper: description, terminology, illustrations] https://provenienz.gbv.de/Portal:Buntpapier Decorative papers used in the book trade is an...
bibsoc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For this month’s Council’s Choice, Daryl Green highlights the German-language wiki Buntpapier, assembled and hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a subset of their larger “ProvenienzWiki”:
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
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For this month's Council's Choice, Lucy Evans highlights an online exhibition about Operation Tiger, when London's famous Gay's the Word bookshop was raided and over 140 titles seized in April 1984: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Council’s Choice for February 2025 - Bibliographical Society
Seized Books! An online exhibition. I am delighted to recommend the Seized Books online exhibition, even if it may seem a shameless opportunity to promote my own institution, Senate House Library. Sen...
bibsoc.org.uk
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
For this month's Council's Choice, Lucy Evans highlights an online exhibition about Operation Tiger, when London's famous Gay's the Word bookshop was raided and over 140 titles seized in April 1984: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
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Our friends at the Trigge Library in Grantham are hosting the following: landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/2679...
Trigge Library Symposium - Carnival of the Animals
Join us for a day learning more about the Francis Trigge Library.
Refreshments available from 9:...
landing.churchdesk.com
June 5, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Our friends at the Trigge Library in Grantham are hosting the following: landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/2679...
@ryancordell.bsky.social
From one letterpress printer to another (via ChatGPT 4)
— looking forward to your lecture this evening.
From one letterpress printer to another (via ChatGPT 4)
— looking forward to your lecture this evening.
May 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
@ryancordell.bsky.social
From one letterpress printer to another (via ChatGPT 4)
— looking forward to your lecture this evening.
From one letterpress printer to another (via ChatGPT 4)
— looking forward to your lecture this evening.
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For this month Council’s Choice, David Macfarlane looks at HistoryofInformation.com:
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
March 18, 2024 at 9:40 AM
For this month Council’s Choice, David Macfarlane looks at HistoryofInformation.com:
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
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“Time to see whether Bluesky can prove out a vision for what Twitter might have become: a decentralized service that anyone could build on, over time creating a more open and democratic network.” 🫡
Now that Bluesky is open to the public, I hope developers and publishers give it a second look. It has a lot of good ideas about the future of social networking: www.platformer.news/bluesky-publ...
February 7, 2024 at 3:10 AM
“Time to see whether Bluesky can prove out a vision for what Twitter might have become: a decentralized service that anyone could build on, over time creating a more open and democratic network.” 🫡
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A wonderful evening with @aglmasters.bsky.social to hear the Academy of Ancient Music play Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.
January 24, 2024 at 11:00 PM
A wonderful evening with @aglmasters.bsky.social to hear the Academy of Ancient Music play Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.
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The Society’s third meeting of the 2023/2024 season will take place next Tuesday, 16 January 2024, at 5.30 pm, at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE, and online via Zoom. Rémi Jimenes will speak about 'Claude Garamont, royal typefounder?'.
January 12, 2024 at 9:32 AM
The Society’s third meeting of the 2023/2024 season will take place next Tuesday, 16 January 2024, at 5.30 pm, at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE, and online via Zoom. Rémi Jimenes will speak about 'Claude Garamont, royal typefounder?'.
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A reminder that the deadline for applications for grants is approaching: 19 January. Every year, the Society makes a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research (for example, book history, textual transmission, publishing, printing, binding, book-ownership, book-collecting).
January 3, 2024 at 11:24 AM
A reminder that the deadline for applications for grants is approaching: 19 January. Every year, the Society makes a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research (for example, book history, textual transmission, publishing, printing, binding, book-ownership, book-collecting).
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EFF has long advocated for affordable, accessible, future-proof internet access for all. Lawmakers recognized the significance of this vision during the pandemic. But, their dedication has wavered. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
December 29, 2023 at 8:16 PM
EFF has long advocated for affordable, accessible, future-proof internet access for all. Lawmakers recognized the significance of this vision during the pandemic. But, their dedication has wavered. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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It's been exactly a year since the very first post on Bluesky was created!
We just published a new blog post with some updates:
We just published a new blog post with some updates:
Toward Federation and an Open Network
One year ago, the first post on Bluesky was created. Now, we're working toward federation and a truly open network.
blueskyweb.xyz
November 16, 2023 at 5:14 PM
It's been exactly a year since the very first post on Bluesky was created!
We just published a new blog post with some updates:
We just published a new blog post with some updates:
While working today, I listened to Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" - surely one of the most remarkable piano recordings ever made.
Over an hour of purely improvised music that is so exciting, so beautiful, so enthralling - it sounds new every time you listen to it.
Wonderful. Give it a listen.
Over an hour of purely improvised music that is so exciting, so beautiful, so enthralling - it sounds new every time you listen to it.
Wonderful. Give it a listen.
September 28, 2023 at 3:31 PM
While working today, I listened to Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" - surely one of the most remarkable piano recordings ever made.
Over an hour of purely improvised music that is so exciting, so beautiful, so enthralling - it sounds new every time you listen to it.
Wonderful. Give it a listen.
Over an hour of purely improvised music that is so exciting, so beautiful, so enthralling - it sounds new every time you listen to it.
Wonderful. Give it a listen.
An interesting discovery resource, gotriple.eu, focusses on social sciences and humanities (SSH).
It's good for the European perspective.
It's good for the European perspective.
September 22, 2023 at 2:01 PM
An interesting discovery resource, gotriple.eu, focusses on social sciences and humanities (SSH).
It's good for the European perspective.
It's good for the European perspective.
The SAL also has a new membership category - "Affiliates" - if you want to be part of a great organisation but you don't have the chops yet to be a "Fellow".
I agree that the library is an exemplary resource, and their Librarian is excellent (Becky Loughead).
I agree that the library is an exemplary resource, and their Librarian is excellent (Becky Loughead).
I was previously employed in the Bodleian, and that would have been my first choice. However, I was later employed at the Society of Antiquaries in Piccadilly, so I shall nominate their library, which I think is similarly unique
September 21, 2023 at 8:20 PM
The SAL also has a new membership category - "Affiliates" - if you want to be part of a great organisation but you don't have the chops yet to be a "Fellow".
I agree that the library is an exemplary resource, and their Librarian is excellent (Becky Loughead).
I agree that the library is an exemplary resource, and their Librarian is excellent (Becky Loughead).
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Coming to a library near you lol xxx❤️
September 6, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Coming to a library near you lol xxx❤️