Marja Kingma
@marjakingma.bsky.social
EU-Dutch librarian living in UK. Art, animals (bears, cats, ferrets, owls) books, crafts, nature, politics, sports. Opinions my own. 🇪🇺🌳🇳🇱 🇬🇧🇺🇦
An interesting two days lie ahead, with a varied programme on curating collections in libraries, museums, archives during conflict and crises. A good turn out of @britishlibrary colleagues and colleagues from other heritage institutions.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
An interesting two days lie ahead, with a varied programme on curating collections in libraries, museums, archives during conflict and crises. A good turn out of @britishlibrary colleagues and colleagues from other heritage institutions.
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela. ( The Guardian) The orange will not be pleased. Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado.
If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!
I’m so looking forward to today’s event: ‘Connecting histories, connecting heritage’ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.
October 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I’m so looking forward to today’s event: ‘Connecting histories, connecting heritage’ with 16-17th C Antwerp as case study. Lead by Christine Anderson (UCL) at Flanders House.
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And early modern women artists are well represented in a 4th exhibition, coming up at the end of October!
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond - www.hydecollection.org
www.hydecollection.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And early modern women artists are well represented in a 4th exhibition, coming up at the end of October!
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
The Hyde Collection
www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/a...
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BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
BREAKING: Jane Goodall, a scientist and global activist who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said reut.rs/3IPKG8E
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FINAL CALL! ⏰
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB
Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
FINAL CALL! ⏰
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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Best political history lessons in the world. I cannot recommend these guys high enough. Thank you guys for all your hard work.
🚨 Season 8 -The Story of Socialism- premiere now available exclusively for Patreon supporters 🚨 The new season from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social kicks off with the development of socialist ideas after the French Revolution. Public release 24/09
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September 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Best political history lessons in the world. I cannot recommend these guys high enough. Thank you guys for all your hard work.
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
Get yourselves a copy.
"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
September 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Get yourselves a copy.
What craftsmanship. Held in National Gallery of Art D.C.
It's World Coconut Day! A fabulous coconut cup with gilt silver mounts, Netherlandish, c. 1540:
September 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What craftsmanship. Held in National Gallery of Art D.C.
Totally agree.
"What a wonderful collection - surprising, smart and rich ... These essays are the product of a unique and admirable mind and I loved them." - Nick Hornby
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
September 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Totally agree.
A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker
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August 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker
A painter ahead of his time.
The Laughing Cavalier, Dutch Baroque masterpiece painted in 1624, by Frans Hals, influential portrait artist whose loose brushstrokes & lively spontaneity inspired Manet, Whistler and Van Gogh; died in Haarlem #OTD 1666.
The Wallace Collection London
The Wallace Collection London
August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A painter ahead of his time.
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Immigrant advocate groups in Los Angeles gathered at MacArthur Park calling for a 24-hour community stoppage protesting against continued ICE raids.
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Immigrant advocate groups in Los Angeles gathered at MacArthur Park calling for a 24-hour community stoppage protesting against continued ICE raids.
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles
Happy International Cat Day Sybil!
August 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Happy International Cat Day Sybil!
My latest piece for the European Studies Blog inspired by the exhibition Unearthed : the Power of Gardening, last day tomorrow Sunday 10th. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
Tulips: Dutch, Turkish, or Flemish?
This weekend is your last chance to see our exhibition ‘Unearthed: the Power of Gardening’. On our homepage there is an image of someone looking at a display about tulips. Display case on the tulip at...
blogs.bl.uk
August 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
My latest piece for the European Studies Blog inspired by the exhibition Unearthed : the Power of Gardening, last day tomorrow Sunday 10th. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
Colleague Helena Byrne’s blog for the UK Web Archive What to nominate for womens rugby world cup 2025 bit.ly/UKWABlog202508
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
What to nominate for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025
By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives England are the hosts for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025. The group stages will take place in Brighton & Hove, Exeter, Bristol, Northampton, Manchester, York...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Colleague Helena Byrne’s blog for the UK Web Archive What to nominate for womens rugby world cup 2025 bit.ly/UKWABlog202508
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
Send in your suggestions for women’s rugby websites, please.
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking Fludd made me laugh out loud many times, and impressed me with its sharp observations, as you would expect from Hilary Mantel. A perfect holiday read.
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking Fludd made me laugh out loud many times, and impressed me with its sharp observations, as you would expect from Hilary Mantel. A perfect holiday read.
Beautiful!
The model book of calligraphy 1561-1596, illustrated with exquisite miniatures by influential Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, court painter to Emperor Rudolf II; admired for his detailed studies of natural history, he died in Vienna #OTD 1601.
Getty Museum
Getty Museum
July 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Beautiful!
Congratulations, Luke, can’t wait to read it.
This has just appeared on Amazon. Published 1 September by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...
July 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Congratulations, Luke, can’t wait to read it.
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How many more warnings do we need? Extreme weather - heatwaves, flooding - is the new normal. And yet some still stick their heads in the sand. We need politicians with the courage to act. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Met Office: Extreme weather the UK's new normal
The UK has a notably different climate compared with just a few decades ago, the Met Office says.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
How many more warnings do we need? Extreme weather - heatwaves, flooding - is the new normal. And yet some still stick their heads in the sand. We need politicians with the courage to act. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking at The Duke of York pub in York, following a very successful hunt for second hand books at The Minstergate Bookshop, a true book lovers’ paradise.
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking at The Duke of York pub in York, following a very successful hunt for second hand books at The Minstergate Bookshop, a true book lovers’ paradise.
Another stellar acquisition from colleagues.
We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life.
Items include…
Items include…
June 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Another stellar acquisition from colleagues.
blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af... Textile wraps to protect manuscripts are also part of our Southeast Asian Collections. A few are on display @britishlibrary.bsky.social St Pancras London on the third floor near the Asian and African Reading Room. Free to visit.
New display of manuscript textiles from Southeast Asia
Across Southeast Asia, textiles were used to adorn, protect and to add merit and value to written works. These textiles are works of art in themselves, featuring intricate patterns and in some cases i...
blogs.bl.uk
May 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af... Textile wraps to protect manuscripts are also part of our Southeast Asian Collections. A few are on display @britishlibrary.bsky.social St Pancras London on the third floor near the Asian and African Reading Room. Free to visit.