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'Bird Watching' plate by UK based artist Vicky Lindo, known for her quirky, highly decorated ceramics #WomensArt
Photo of a blue and white plate with images of a stylised cat next to a flowering plant watching three flying birds
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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'Iris' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a close-up of a blue and purple flower with soft wavey petals on a green stem and with spear like leaves
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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UK artist/printmaker Vanessa Lubach creates fascinating artworks via her intricate and highly skilled linocuts #WomensArt
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Library light.
#BlueskyArtShow #bright @theul.bsky.social
A glass light shade with the word ‘STAIR’ shining through a red painted area. Books on shelves are visible on the right of the photograph.
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
Blue star-shaped flowers against mid green leaves and a yellow orange background of fallen leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Goodnight.
On the Windowsill at Night, Quint Buchholz, 1995.
Painting of the side of a light-colored building at night. A small black cat sits on the sill of a window, looking out. The crescent moon is visible in the night sky reflected in the window pane. The building has a dark roof and green louvered shutters. Bare tree branches can be seen either side of the frame.
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79
The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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An oil on board from April 2017 showing flowers from the garden and a few still life objects. This painting was sold.
#art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart
Oil painting of mixed flowers on board
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Working late on a stack of Baedekers, imagining a whole generation not experiencing currency conversion at European borders... let alone the different standards of weights and measures each country used to have.

Did you know Herbert Hoover was involved in international standardization?
Three smallish books with flexible red cloth covers and gilt titles are sitting on the corner of a flatbed image scanner. One of the books is about central Italy, one about Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, and the bottom one is Austria, but that third book is turned so you can see the marbled page block edges. Much cooler than mere sprayed edges, kids!
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The Houses of Thriplow
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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The Houses of Thriplow
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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The Daily Rothno is a garden wall in Thriplow
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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#WallsOnWednesday Thriplow
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The Old Smithy, Thriplow
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Moorcroft Pottery 769/4 Rennie Rose Blue Rachel Bishop
#Moorcroft #Pottery #RennieRose #CharlesRennieMackintosh #Art #StratforduponAvon
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Moorcroft Pottery 769/4 Rennie Rose Blue Rachel Bishop
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The Regent’s Canal was created in the early 19th century to link London with the industrial Midlands. It is now one of London’s gems. Discover the canal’s history in my video here: youtu.be/0zjcrCB8MeE (46 minutes).
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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"The giant stride". Ethel Spowers. 1933.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Moquette for The Victoria Line. Pat Barrow. 1993.
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The Good City

Reinder spotted this plan at the municipal archives in The Hague: in English it says 'Map of the good city' Den Haag. 
The Good City
Reinder spotted this plan at the municipal archives in The Hague: in English it says 'Map of the good city' Den Haag. 
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November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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De vereniging Vrienden van de #KB, de nationale bibliotheek in Den Haag, heeft een uniek exemplaar van de roman #Psyche door Louis #Couperus aan de KB geschonken. Het boek is gebonden in een unieke handgemaakte band. Zie www.kb.nl/nieuws/vrien...
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"A new exhibition will shine a light on an "unsung hero" of publishing who is credited with helping shape children's reading through the 20th Century."

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Book exhibition hails Bedford's 'unsung hero' of publishing
Publisher Noel Carrington is credited with creating some of Britain's best-loved children's books.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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At The Higgins Bedford
15 November - 28 June 2026
Wixamtree and Connections Gallery - Free Entry

www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/Exhibitions/...
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"The 2025 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show will hit the road, traveling to the presses that have requested it, from September 2025 to June 2026."
#bookcoverdesign #designmatters

Schedule here -
design.up.hcommons.org/2025-traveli...
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Hearty thanks to all who have celebrated University Press Week 2025, spotlighting the many who #TeamUP every day to advance knowledge and understanding. #ReadUP https://bit.ly/4hpJfe0
University Press Week, November 10-14, 2025
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM