Suzanne Paul
@suzpaul.bsky.social
Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
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The Ladybird Adventures in History books by Lawrence Du Garde Peach. For many of us they sparked a love of history
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The Ladybird Adventures in History books by Lawrence Du Garde Peach. For many of us they sparked a love of history
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📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣
Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
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Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
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Two Postdoctoral Positions, History, Theory, and Heritage, EPFL Lausanne
Cammy Brothers. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 01.09.2026, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.04.2026
arthist.net
February 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣
Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
(1/5)
Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
(1/5)
Awesome thread.
February 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Awesome thread.
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Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
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The Coptic Michaelides papyri have been digitised cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
Michaelides Fragments: Coptic
Michaelides Fragments: Coptic
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:05 AM
The Coptic Michaelides papyri have been digitised cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 Feb 17.30.
The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on
The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine.
In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#medievalsky
The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on
The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine.
In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#medievalsky
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 AM
The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 Feb 17.30.
The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on
The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine.
In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#medievalsky
The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on
The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine.
In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#medievalsky
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All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities
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Save the date! At Evensong on Thursday 5 March, the Cathedral will be formally receiving the Bury Psalter, which has been gifted by the King Edward VI Grammar School Foundation Trust. Dating from around 1400, it was used at the ancient Abbey of St Edmund. Everyone is welcome at this special service
February 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Save the date! At Evensong on Thursday 5 March, the Cathedral will be formally receiving the Bury Psalter, which has been gifted by the King Edward VI Grammar School Foundation Trust. Dating from around 1400, it was used at the ancient Abbey of St Edmund. Everyone is welcome at this special service
Such great news for @stedscath.bsky.social
I'm hugely excited about the return of the Bury Psalter to @stedscath.bsky.social; the donation of the manuscript to the Cathedral means that it can stay in Bury. Along with the Bury Chronicle at Moyse's Hall Museum it's one of only two of the Abbey's books that remain in the town they were made for
Save the date! At Evensong on Thursday 5 March, the Cathedral will be formally receiving the Bury Psalter, which has been gifted by the King Edward VI Grammar School Foundation Trust. Dating from around 1400, it was used at the ancient Abbey of St Edmund. Everyone is welcome at this special service
February 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Such great news for @stedscath.bsky.social
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I'm hugely excited about the return of the Bury Psalter to @stedscath.bsky.social; the donation of the manuscript to the Cathedral means that it can stay in Bury. Along with the Bury Chronicle at Moyse's Hall Museum it's one of only two of the Abbey's books that remain in the town they were made for
Save the date! At Evensong on Thursday 5 March, the Cathedral will be formally receiving the Bury Psalter, which has been gifted by the King Edward VI Grammar School Foundation Trust. Dating from around 1400, it was used at the ancient Abbey of St Edmund. Everyone is welcome at this special service
February 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I'm hugely excited about the return of the Bury Psalter to @stedscath.bsky.social; the donation of the manuscript to the Cathedral means that it can stay in Bury. Along with the Bury Chronicle at Moyse's Hall Museum it's one of only two of the Abbey's books that remain in the town they were made for
just brilliant.
Students sometimes ask me why they have to read old things in my classes and what relevance old texts can possibly have for them. Ian McKellen recited a monologue from Shakespeare on Colbert's show two days ago that answered that question.
the monologue : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw...
the monologue : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw...
Ian McKellen using Shakespeare to tear off the false moral mask that xenophobes wear across the west
YouTube video by Tkio
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
just brilliant.
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🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
February 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards @ Southampton Klaxon! Arts and humanities! Deadline March! Medieval studies proposals welcome! Deets on the webpage: www.southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-col...
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA)
www.southampton.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!
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Coming soonish…
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Coming soonish…
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Beautiful 19th-century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, Southern India.
Mica is a thin, transparent mineral with a glass-like surface. Pictured here are a Hujam, a barber, and his wife (1869).
See the full set in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/V9BSC5I
Mica is a thin, transparent mineral with a glass-like surface. Pictured here are a Hujam, a barber, and his wife (1869).
See the full set in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/V9BSC5I
February 5, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Beautiful 19th-century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, Southern India.
Mica is a thin, transparent mineral with a glass-like surface. Pictured here are a Hujam, a barber, and his wife (1869).
See the full set in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/V9BSC5I
Mica is a thin, transparent mineral with a glass-like surface. Pictured here are a Hujam, a barber, and his wife (1869).
See the full set in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/V9BSC5I
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Apparently I use Claude Code to build all the little apps I’ve wish for but never had the bandwidth to make—today it’s an "Out of Sorts" calculator for letterpress—paste or type the text you want to typeset & it shows how many of each character you’ll need in your case outofsorts.skeuomorphpress.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Apparently I use Claude Code to build all the little apps I’ve wish for but never had the bandwidth to make—today it’s an "Out of Sorts" calculator for letterpress—paste or type the text you want to typeset & it shows how many of each character you’ll need in your case outofsorts.skeuomorphpress.org
Really fascinating…
The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6)
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
February 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Really fascinating…
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First London Palaeography Seminar of 2026 coming up! Eyal Poleg, no less, speaking on 'The Science of Erasures' - Tuesday 3rd February, 5:30pm Senate House and online. To learn more and to register:
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 26, 2026 at 10:37 AM
First London Palaeography Seminar of 2026 coming up! Eyal Poleg, no less, speaking on 'The Science of Erasures' - Tuesday 3rd February, 5:30pm Senate House and online. To learn more and to register:
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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And people wonder why Poland has misgivings about most of its neighbours.
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
And people wonder why Poland has misgivings about most of its neighbours.
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Brilliant thread relevant to post-Roman Europe
This is actually very interesting because that’s what people get wrong about the Middle Ages as well. Simply put: you might know how to build aqueducts from self healing concrete but you might lose the need *and* capability to do so. Three separate things. Many misunderstand how societies adapt. 1/
It’s so weird how this article in the weekend FT conflates knowledge and capability. We didn’t forget how to go to the moon.
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Brilliant thread relevant to post-Roman Europe
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CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 PM
CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
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Provenance research needs RAG infrastructures with a human-in-the-loop to ensure scalability, interpretability, and ethical sensitivity.
This paper shows how RAG enables multilingual search in the Getty Provenance Index.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093
#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #RAG
This paper shows how RAG enables multilingual search in the Getty Provenance Index.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093
#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #RAG
January 31, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Provenance research needs RAG infrastructures with a human-in-the-loop to ensure scalability, interpretability, and ethical sensitivity.
This paper shows how RAG enables multilingual search in the Getty Provenance Index.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093
#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #RAG
This paper shows how RAG enables multilingual search in the Getty Provenance Index.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093
#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #RAG
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Join us on Tuesday, 3 February, 6-8pm at Senate House, London. Booking required. Free to attend. More details and booking form here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/....
Shelf Improvement: How to Collect and Present a Prize-Worthy Book Collection
ies.sas.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Join us on Tuesday, 3 February, 6-8pm at Senate House, London. Booking required. Free to attend. More details and booking form here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/....
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📜Bequest of the day📜
Royalist Sir Nicholas Crispe asks for an autopsy in his 1666 will:
'I would have my body opened that the Phisitiones may see the cause of my soe long shortnes of breath to be helpfull to my Posterity that are troubled with the same Infirmity'.
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Royalist Sir Nicholas Crispe asks for an autopsy in his 1666 will:
'I would have my body opened that the Phisitiones may see the cause of my soe long shortnes of breath to be helpfull to my Posterity that are troubled with the same Infirmity'.
#EarlyModern 🗃️
January 30, 2026 at 2:17 PM
📜Bequest of the day📜
Royalist Sir Nicholas Crispe asks for an autopsy in his 1666 will:
'I would have my body opened that the Phisitiones may see the cause of my soe long shortnes of breath to be helpfull to my Posterity that are troubled with the same Infirmity'.
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Royalist Sir Nicholas Crispe asks for an autopsy in his 1666 will:
'I would have my body opened that the Phisitiones may see the cause of my soe long shortnes of breath to be helpfull to my Posterity that are troubled with the same Infirmity'.
#EarlyModern 🗃️