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Senate House Library
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One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
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📢 Newly opened at Senate House Library: a fascinating series of paranormal correspondence from researcher, anthropologist, and magician Eric Dingwall — sealed for 35 years and now available for study.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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📚✨ After 18 years, Senate House Library has welcomed home several rare books stolen from the Durning-Lawrence collection in 2008. Thanks to alert collectors, international cooperation, and some detective work, these volumes—scarred but still whole—are back where they belong.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🎙️ Senate House Unbound: A Poetics Research Centre Takeover brought together artists and poets from the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre for an evening of live experimentation with text, sound, and space — celebrating our Spineless Wonders exhibition.
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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🚆 On the Right Track: Exploring Senate House Library’s Railway Collections for Research
Join us as we celebrate 200 years of the modern railway with a deep dive into SHL’s unique railway archives.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕑 2:00–3:30 pm | 💻 via Zoom
🔗 Sign up: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Thank you to the wonderful ‘Spineless Wonders Exhibition’ curators at @senatehouselib.bsky.social for guiding the MA poets through the political and material histories of printed pamphlets 🧡
Group of people in a circle around a display cabinet containing a mixture of printed pamphlets in multiple colours Group of people surrounding a glass case also containing books and printed matter. There is another glass case in the foreground with five pamphlets in green and brown and a blue concertina book
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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📚✨ Senate House Unbound: A Poetics Research Centre Takeover
Tomorrow, explore Senate House Library like never before!

Join the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre for an evening of live poetry, art, and sound inspired by the Spineless Wonders exhibition.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for History Day 2025! 🎉

We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!

@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

#HistDay25
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Still thinking about yesterday

#HistDay25 #HistoryDay #SenateHouseLibrary
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Visit our #HistDay25 stand at @senatehouselib.bsky.social today! Come for the ladybird book, stay for the pick n mic sweets.
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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islauter.bsky.social
Always a great day to promote our collections and engage with researchers and other organisations 🤓 #HistDay25
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Today, our Graduate Trainees have been representing Kew Library & Archives for #HistDay25 at Senate House Library. It's been a great way to share highlights from our collections with potential students and researchers as well as discover more about other libraries and archives! #KewLA
A selection of copied Library, Illustrations and Archives material dipslayed across a table with a black tablecloth. There are two upright perspex holders with advertisements for the current exhibitions at Kew "Flora Indica" and "Persia Reimagined". Botanical illustrations on the table are of a carnivorous plant, painted by Marianne North, and fly agaric mushrooms, drawn by Elsie Wakefield. Other items on the table are copies of a handwritten letter, a copy of Curtis' Botanical Magazine, a Rocque map of Kew Gardens, a colour chart by Burchell, as well as stacks of postcards and badges for visitors to take.
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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History Day 2025 is well underway and there’s almost too much to take in!

(Fans of Bruce Springsteen have have just the thing for you 👀)
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We look forward to meeting all those attending #HistDay25 today: bit.ly/4nvfl9v We're one of 70 exhibitors making this an ideal opportunity to discover new resources and archives to support your research.

Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social & @senatehouselib.bsky.social for making this possible #Skystorians
Image of table at History Day with Royal Historical Society items.
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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We are all set up for History Day 25!

You can pick up a FREE BOOK from our stand if you sign up to our monthly history email update.

We are on the ground floor - stand B11.

Come and say hello!

@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social #HistDay25
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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🎉 And it’s History Day!

👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈

@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

#HistDay25
A photograph of a member of the Archives Centre team sat behind a table with research guides, leaflets, and copies of items in our collections. A photograph of facsimiles of relating to queer history. Research guides, postcards, badges and leaflets on a table
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Come visit @edwardscrivens.bsky.social and I @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social #HistoryDay to find out about @theees.bsky.social and the queer history of British Egyptology today!
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Today we're celebrating History Day in Senate House w/ @senatehouselib.bsky.social & @ihr.bsky.social!

For #HistDay25 we're also celebrating 25 titles in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series (with the 25th #OpenAccess title publishing tomorrow!).

Explore the series:
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November 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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We’ll be attending #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November at @senatehouselib.bsky.social.

Come visit us to find out more about Amelia B Edwards and what our collections reveal about the early days of British Egyptology.

ℹ️https://buff.ly/OIC0ba8
@ihr.bsky.social #LGBTQ #History #QueerHistory
November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Want to see something spooky for Halloween?

Here’s…a hand in a box 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Archives Portal Europe and @ArchivesHUb will join #HistDay25 at @senatehouselib.bsky.social on 4 Nov, 11am–4pm UK. In London? Come by! Or explore our Queer History & Heritage Trail with docs from our archives: each QR code links to the original! www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/ape-at-...
APE at HistoryDay 2025: LGBT+ history
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October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
1 week to go until History Day - don't forget to sign up! Read about why History Day is such a fantastic event in this blog by Claire Langhamer: buff.ly/ySfBuWR

#HistDay25 @senatehouselib.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Experience poetry like never before.

📅 11 Nov | 🕔 5–7 pm | 📍 Senate House Library

An evening of live performance + experimental poetics celebrating Spineless Wonders.

🎟️ Free – register now!

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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
senatehouselib.bsky.social
On this day in 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer — often called the father of English poetry — passed away.

Exactly 250 years ago (not on this day!), Thomas Tyrwhitt published his landmark edition of Chaucer’s works, earning him the title “the founder of modern Chaucer editing.”
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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A big thank you to everyone who attended our curator-led tour of Spineless Wonders yesterday. Both in person and online. Spineless Wonders is still running until 29 November so there’s still plenty of time to see it!
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I'm always looking for portals into the past... Here's A Telescopic View of the Great Exhibition of 1851, currently in the excellent #SpinelessWonders exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social. Surprisingly immersive - I could hear the bustle of the crowds! #portal #TimeTravel #history #Victorian
Front of the Telescopic View depicting a man drawing a curtain aside. There is a round hole to look through The round hole closer up, with the concertina layers of paper beyond The 3D effect looking inside The 3D effect with figures and exhibits
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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💭 'What surprised me most was the change of my attitude between the traditional print model and open access.'

Why has Dr Karen Attar @senatehouselib.bsky.social changed her stance on #OpenAccess #publishing? Find out in our latest author blog for #OAWeek2025.

👉 uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/refl...
Reflecting on publishing and research culture during Open Access week 2025 – with Dr Karen Attar - University of London Press
At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the ...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM