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Livraria Bertrand, R. Garrett 73 75, the oldest book shop still functioning as such in the world. They have a nice cafe too.

I’m so sorry Celine. Try not to let it get you down - I know how hard that is, but your work is fantastic. Fossils who don’t get it and have such fragile egos that they humiliate junior scholars in public are a very sad phenomenon. Makes you wonder if they ever had a truly innovative thought.

The fascist vibe isn’t exactly softened by the display of plaster casts of classical Greek statues in the central hallway 😬

…and it now houses the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History). First time I visited for work, I walked in without knowing its history and my first thought was ‘this place has a fascist feel to it.’ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentral...

In archives: pencil and notebook, laptop, phone with good camera that automatically synchronises to cloud storage, charger, card magnifying glass. In museum storage rooms: card magnifying glass, digital camera + tripod. And a jacket or scarf, because these places tend to be COLD.

For desk work: Leuchtturm numbered, lined notebook & fountain pen for scribbling notes and ideas. Zotero to keep track of my references and sources, including photographed archival material. Scrivener for book projects, Word for smaller pieces, Excel for basic data sets, Baserow for data collab.

O nee :( Veel sterkte gewenst

To add insult to injury, this is the second version of the proofs, and I already flagged most of these mistakes in the previous version too. Sometimes it really feels like big publishers not only steal our labour, they consciously add to it too.