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Alice Marples
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Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
Final panel for our Europe, Americas and Oceania Doctoral Open Day with collections-based researchers and supervisors from the British Library and School of Advanced Studies - it's been a really fun day!
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What a delight to (re)join my well-loved local library! I need to leave before any more leap into my hands...
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Dr Kathy Davies delivering a fascinating public lecture based on her 'Smog Stories' research as our Visiting Postdoc Fellow in Sustainability and Environment
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Lovely to see our recent Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Kathy Davies, represented in the temporary gallery outside the reading rooms!

Looking forward to her SOLD OUT public lecture at the end of the month, too: events.bl.uk/events/smog-stories-a-lived-history-of-air-pollution
October 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
British Library/UEA collaborative PhD student Raphaelle Goyeau giving a brilliant presentation on Robert Cotton's collection at #BuiltWithBooks 'Shaping the Shelves of the Early Modern Library' symposium
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In my happy place (Scotland, thinking about the organisation of knowledge) #ARMA2025
June 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
May 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What a treat to host an afternoon for the CDP Cohort Development Event 'Making Exhibitions'

Our Katherine Blamire presenting on pop-up co-curated library exhibitions through the Living Knowledge Network - the power of local stories and collections

living-knowledge-network.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
ECR panel on 'Conducting Research with Collections and Archives' as part of our Global Languages, Societies and Cultures doctoral open day with SAS and Senate House
February 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Absolutely devastated to get to work and discover that my smug freezer breakfast parkin is actually stilton 😭
February 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's our first Doctoral Open Day of the year! British and European Collections from Antiquity to 1800 - to find out more about some of the collections we have on display today, see our European Collections blog: blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
January 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Enjoying thoughtful discussions of heritage, embodiment and intersectionality in panel on 'The Power of Exhanging Diverse Stories: Impact, Experience & Enhancement' #BSECS2025
January 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sauna and cold dips up on the fells. I love Northumberland.
December 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM
I must - I simply must - have this book.
December 5, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I have really loved working on this edited collection project with brilliant people and am so excited about seeing it released March 2024 @uolpress.bsky.social
December 12, 2023 at 5:34 PM
Busman's holiday...
October 7, 2023 at 10:12 AM