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Guyda Armstrong
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Books, things, languages, analogue, digital, sound. Shoegazer.
Come and see our legendary Head of Imaging Jamie introduce an eighth wonder of the world this Friday lunchtime @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !!
This Friday 11th July from 12pm I will be introducing a newly produced full size reproduction of the stunning world map from 1546 we have been busy with at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Come explore the world seen through the eyes of a French renaissance king!
July 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is unlocking - Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library are delighted to announce that from spring 2025 the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library will publish Open Access. This ...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
IGGY POP!!!
May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Watching this on SNUB TV at my friend's house when I should have been at orchestra practice literally changed the course of my life. Thanks, guys!
May 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Amazing, and AMAZINGLY LOUD Dinosaur Jr gig at the Albert Hall last night; as it should be done.
May 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
We are very happy to announce the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page', at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 29-30 May 2025.

For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM
May 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
A conference presenting the brilliant work of many people over many years.. most immediately myself, colleagues at @oxford-vgg.bsky.social, @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and elsewhere. Come for the computer vision stay for the incunables, or vice versa
It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
WE ARE LEEDS WE ARE LEEDS! (very impressed to see this, as a Leeds graduate lcsleeds.bluesky.social; I hope everyone else follows).
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Incredible intensive language course learning to read, speak, and transcribe two indigenous languages at the Newberry Library in Summer 2025; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
The Newberry Library is hosting a 1-week Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat this summer (Jul 21–Aug 01, 2025). Applications due March 15: www.newberry.org/calendar/cen...
Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat
Learn to read, speak, and transcribe two Indigenous languages: Nahuatl and Nawat.
www.newberry.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
12 new postdoc opportunities in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just visited the JRRIL Imaging Team, now properly installed in their fantastic new imaging suite! With all the curtained cubicles and trollies it is basically GOTH CASUALTY (HT Jamie).
January 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our fantastic Envisioning Dante postdoc Dr Rebecca Bowen is giving a paper in London (and to remote viewers) 16th Jan 2025! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Seminar alert: Rebecca Bowen will speak on 'Figures of Love: Imagining Amore in the Early Italian Tradition', 16 Jan, in person IHR London and also via Zoom, register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/figur.... All welcome! Please share.
Figures of Love: Imagining Amore in the Early Italian Tradition
www.history.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
IMMENSE show last night at the Academy; like gigs used to be!
112 dB at soundcheck. We’re here, Manchester.
January 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Valley is currently flooding so the AIRCOOLED/RRRAPID-KOOL show is cancelled, and will be rescheduled. Please don't travel in, and stay safe.
CANCELLED: We've had to cancel tonight's AIRCOOLED show due to flooding in Hebden Bridge. We'll be contacting all ticket holders and will be rescheduling the show for Jan/Feb. Please don't travel into Hebden if you can avoid it. Thank you.
November 23, 2024 at 2:55 PM
New RRRapid-Kool single on Bandcamp; get yrrr old-timey garrrage rrrock w/ handclaps here! Also playing @thetradesclub.bsky.social with Aircooled this Saturday! Tix: thetradesclub.com/events/airco...
Can you believe it? We've got even morrre new music forrr you! Check out ourrr Bandcamp!!
rrrapidkool.bandcamp.com/album/summer...
Summer Hit, by RRRapid-Kool
2 track album
rrrapidkool.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Me and the Raphaels in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
November 18, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Our excellent seminar room for the workshop last week, the Alte Kapelle at the University of Vienna. The frescos were greatly appreciated.
November 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
More travel geometries: Munich airport, which I now know very well, having missed my connection home twice in a week.
November 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Absolutely stoked that Envisioning Dante is going back to Chicago for the RSA conference! Me and Giles Bergel @chapbookpro.bsky.social will take you through our geometrical reasonings in one of our two sessions; bring a pen (rulers optional).
November 1, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Went to see Annwn at Castell Caernarfon last night: lasers, heavy drones, 3D spatial soundscapes, 3 Gruff Rhys sets! The live lunar eclipse felt almost superfluous.
October 29, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Yesterday I got to go up the scaffolding to look at the Masaccio Crocifisso restoration; a next-level, whole-life-span experience, would definitely recommend.
October 6, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Seems like a good time to spark this one up, I guess.
September 19, 2023 at 8:40 PM