Sophie Evans
@urbangridlock.bsky.social
Librarian. 'Just a twinge of cosmic angst.' 'One day we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.' 🏴 🇮🇪 🌈
Bristol via Dublin via Cymru
Bristol via Dublin via Cymru
If you are in Bristol over the next couple of days. Pop into Central Library and catch the Medieval Manuscripts exhibition whilst you can. Ends Friday 19 December!
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you are in Bristol over the next couple of days. Pop into Central Library and catch the Medieval Manuscripts exhibition whilst you can. Ends Friday 19 December!
Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
It’s Special Collections Sunday this weekend. If you are in Bristol and fancy seeing some cool old books - head to Central Library for a bloomin’ marvellous afternoon. Sunday 22 June 2-4pm.
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s Special Collections Sunday this weekend. If you are in Bristol and fancy seeing some cool old books - head to Central Library for a bloomin’ marvellous afternoon. Sunday 22 June 2-4pm.
I’ve been working on the next Special Collections Sunday display. The theme is Animals in old books - and this is by far my favourite animal in a book.
Come meet this guy Sunday 2 March anytime between 2-4pm at Bristol Central Library
📚 🦛 🦏 🦒 🐅 🐘
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-co...
Come meet this guy Sunday 2 March anytime between 2-4pm at Bristol Central Library
📚 🦛 🦏 🦒 🐅 🐘
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-co...
February 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I’ve been working on the next Special Collections Sunday display. The theme is Animals in old books - and this is by far my favourite animal in a book.
Come meet this guy Sunday 2 March anytime between 2-4pm at Bristol Central Library
📚 🦛 🦏 🦒 🐅 🐘
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-co...
Come meet this guy Sunday 2 March anytime between 2-4pm at Bristol Central Library
📚 🦛 🦏 🦒 🐅 🐘
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-co...
Damn! I missed International Zebra Day … a day late but here’s a C19th prancing Zebra.
February 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Damn! I missed International Zebra Day … a day late but here’s a C19th prancing Zebra.
How well do you know Bristol? Can you help identify these streets? 📷
At Bristol Libraries we are sorting through hundreds of old slides from the Local Studies Collection. They are a great snapshot of the city in 60s, 70s and 80s but many are not labelled!
#Bristol
At Bristol Libraries we are sorting through hundreds of old slides from the Local Studies Collection. They are a great snapshot of the city in 60s, 70s and 80s but many are not labelled!
#Bristol
January 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How well do you know Bristol? Can you help identify these streets? 📷
At Bristol Libraries we are sorting through hundreds of old slides from the Local Studies Collection. They are a great snapshot of the city in 60s, 70s and 80s but many are not labelled!
#Bristol
At Bristol Libraries we are sorting through hundreds of old slides from the Local Studies Collection. They are a great snapshot of the city in 60s, 70s and 80s but many are not labelled!
#Bristol
Here’s a blast from the past!
January 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Here’s a blast from the past!
What’s in a name? Tomorrow’s Special Collections Sunday at Bristol Central Library is all about old pubs of Bristol. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm. One of the pubs highlighted is the Fourteen Stars (demolished 1857) - but we aren’t sure how the pub got its name. Can anyone help? …
January 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What’s in a name? Tomorrow’s Special Collections Sunday at Bristol Central Library is all about old pubs of Bristol. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm. One of the pubs highlighted is the Fourteen Stars (demolished 1857) - but we aren’t sure how the pub got its name. Can anyone help? …
20 things I liked in 2024 :
Hanging out with friends and family 😎
My birthday party 🎉
Whiskey night 🥃
Burns night (not haggis - did not like that) 🏴
Making Brucelets ✋
Random dogs 🐕
Agatha Christie audiobooks 📚
Arthur (he liked the haggis) 🐶
Tea and cake on Tuesdays 🍰
Lots of tea 🫖 …
Hanging out with friends and family 😎
My birthday party 🎉
Whiskey night 🥃
Burns night (not haggis - did not like that) 🏴
Making Brucelets ✋
Random dogs 🐕
Agatha Christie audiobooks 📚
Arthur (he liked the haggis) 🐶
Tea and cake on Tuesdays 🍰
Lots of tea 🫖 …
January 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
20 things I liked in 2024 :
Hanging out with friends and family 😎
My birthday party 🎉
Whiskey night 🥃
Burns night (not haggis - did not like that) 🏴
Making Brucelets ✋
Random dogs 🐕
Agatha Christie audiobooks 📚
Arthur (he liked the haggis) 🐶
Tea and cake on Tuesdays 🍰
Lots of tea 🫖 …
Hanging out with friends and family 😎
My birthday party 🎉
Whiskey night 🥃
Burns night (not haggis - did not like that) 🏴
Making Brucelets ✋
Random dogs 🐕
Agatha Christie audiobooks 📚
Arthur (he liked the haggis) 🐶
Tea and cake on Tuesdays 🍰
Lots of tea 🫖 …
I opted to stay in and bring the pub to me last night. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!
January 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I opted to stay in and bring the pub to me last night. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!
We’ll have some interesting old Christmassy themed things on display at Bristol Central Library tomorrow. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm
#Bristol #BristolLibraries #SpecialCollectionsSunday
#Bristol #BristolLibraries #SpecialCollectionsSunday
December 7, 2024 at 8:56 PM
We’ll have some interesting old Christmassy themed things on display at Bristol Central Library tomorrow. If you are in town pop in between 2-4pm
#Bristol #BristolLibraries #SpecialCollectionsSunday
#Bristol #BristolLibraries #SpecialCollectionsSunday
In need of some Christmas gift ideas?
December 7, 2024 at 4:31 PM
In need of some Christmas gift ideas?
Triptych. Dog stubbornly refusing to go for a walk.
December 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Triptych. Dog stubbornly refusing to go for a walk.
November 24, 2024 at 10:43 AM
If I could time travel for one day only, I’d go to 18 November 1975, Hammersmith. 🤔
Where would you go?
Where would you go?
November 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
If I could time travel for one day only, I’d go to 18 November 1975, Hammersmith. 🤔
Where would you go?
Where would you go?
A book shelf on my bookshelf.
🤔
🤔
November 18, 2024 at 12:02 AM
A book shelf on my bookshelf.
🤔
🤔
If you are in Bristol on Saturday pop into Central Library.
Meet the curator & learn more about the exhibition ‘This Revolution in the Town’: The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840
🗓️ Saturday 28 September
🕰️ Drop in between 10am-2pm.
📚 Books on display in the Bristol Room.
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Meet the curator & learn more about the exhibition ‘This Revolution in the Town’: The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840
🗓️ Saturday 28 September
🕰️ Drop in between 10am-2pm.
📚 Books on display in the Bristol Room.
tinyurl.com/sst4yvyk
'This Revolution in the Town': The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840
Meet the curator. Explore the history of the Bristol Library Society, its readers and the books they borrowed.
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September 24, 2024 at 1:54 PM
If you are in Bristol on Saturday pop into Central Library.
Meet the curator & learn more about the exhibition ‘This Revolution in the Town’: The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840
🗓️ Saturday 28 September
🕰️ Drop in between 10am-2pm.
📚 Books on display in the Bristol Room.
tinyurl.com/sst4yvyk
Meet the curator & learn more about the exhibition ‘This Revolution in the Town’: The Bristol Library Society, 1772-1840
🗓️ Saturday 28 September
🕰️ Drop in between 10am-2pm.
📚 Books on display in the Bristol Room.
tinyurl.com/sst4yvyk
Much to the annoyance of my colleagues I’ve come up with a Book of the Week jingle (to the tune of Blankety Blank) and dance (more of a shuffle) every week whilst putting out Book of the Week … 😊
September 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Much to the annoyance of my colleagues I’ve come up with a Book of the Week jingle (to the tune of Blankety Blank) and dance (more of a shuffle) every week whilst putting out Book of the Week … 😊
I’ve just had a nice cuppa sat on the balcony reading all about women’s devotional literary culture in medieval Bristol - by Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy, featuring manuscripts from from Bristol Central Library 😊 📚
‘A lodging most meetest . . . chosen for a poor widow . . . in my old days’: Glimpsing Women’s Devotional Literary Culture in Bristol through its Late-Medieval Manuscripts | Women's Literary Culture ...
blogs.surrey.ac.uk
June 17, 2024 at 8:02 PM
I’ve just had a nice cuppa sat on the balcony reading all about women’s devotional literary culture in medieval Bristol - by Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy, featuring manuscripts from from Bristol Central Library 😊 📚
There’s a lunchtime lecture at Bristol Central Library tomorrow at 12.30 ‘Mary Anning's astonishing ichthyosaur’ by Deborah Hutchinson.
If you are in Bristol Come along!
I’m so excited I made a Lego Mary Anning 😊
If you are in Bristol Come along!
I’m so excited I made a Lego Mary Anning 😊
February 21, 2024 at 9:18 PM
There’s a lunchtime lecture at Bristol Central Library tomorrow at 12.30 ‘Mary Anning's astonishing ichthyosaur’ by Deborah Hutchinson.
If you are in Bristol Come along!
I’m so excited I made a Lego Mary Anning 😊
If you are in Bristol Come along!
I’m so excited I made a Lego Mary Anning 😊
Here’s an online exhibition on Fairy and Folk Tales for your Sunday evening entertainment. If you like that sort of thing 😊
tinyurl.com/Fairy-and-Folk-Tales
tinyurl.com/Fairy-and-Folk-Tales
Fantasy : Fairy & Folk Tales
This is the first of four online exhibitions created by Bristol Libraries as part of the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network national exhibit 'Fantasy: Realms of Imagination'. The beautiful p...
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December 3, 2023 at 6:38 PM
Here’s an online exhibition on Fairy and Folk Tales for your Sunday evening entertainment. If you like that sort of thing 😊
tinyurl.com/Fairy-and-Folk-Tales
tinyurl.com/Fairy-and-Folk-Tales
Just in case you need a recipe ‘To perplex a Witch’
From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.
From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.
November 6, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Just in case you need a recipe ‘To perplex a Witch’
From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.
From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.
I love this book cover. It’s also lovingly tattered and worn with use. Read and re-read over years no doubt.
October 17, 2023 at 3:04 PM
I love this book cover. It’s also lovingly tattered and worn with use. Read and re-read over years no doubt.