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Sophie Evans
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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
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
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 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.
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Creepy or cute??
June 18, 2025 at 8:03 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...
February 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Damn! I missed International Zebra Day … a day late but here’s a C19th prancing Zebra.
February 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
January 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Here’s a blast from the past!
January 9, 2025 at 2:15 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? …
January 4, 2025 at 5:28 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 🫖 …
January 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I opted to stay in and bring the pub to me last night. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!
January 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
December 7, 2024 at 8:56 PM
In need of some Christmas gift ideas?
December 7, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Triptych. Dog stubbornly refusing to go for a walk.
December 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Ok Bert, that’s enough, cut it out!

#StormBert
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?
November 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Bwrw Eira! ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 10:55 AM
A book shelf on my bookshelf.
🤔
November 18, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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
'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.
tinyurl.com
September 24, 2024 at 1:54 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 … 😊
September 18, 2024 at 10:03 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 😊 📚
‘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
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 😊
February 21, 2024 at 9:18 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
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
Just in case you need a recipe ‘To perplex a Witch’
From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, November 1752.
November 6, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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
‘A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination.’
October 13, 2023 at 6:07 PM