Morgan W-B
@morganw-b.bsky.social
Loans @ British Library, likes to learn stuff about things, art, books, pro-dogs, child is 8, brain is soup (views my own, this is not a prof account) she/her
I mean we almost couldn’t find her almost sort of
July 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I mean we almost couldn’t find her almost sort of
Some incredible silly medieval manuscript stickers made by Marina Ćorić (there are also murder rabbits)
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December 6, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Some incredible silly medieval manuscript stickers made by Marina Ćorić (there are also murder rabbits)
www.instagram.com/marinchy.ill...
www.instagram.com/marinchy.ill...
#museum30 day 28: letter
What letters were written here? This is Jane Austen’s portable ‘writing-box’, given by her father in 1794. Passed down through her family and presented to the British Library in 1999, it is shown with a pair of her spectacles and an ink pot
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What letters were written here? This is Jane Austen’s portable ‘writing-box’, given by her father in 1794. Passed down through her family and presented to the British Library in 1999, it is shown with a pair of her spectacles and an ink pot
Add 86841
November 28, 2024 at 8:19 PM
#museum30 day 28: letter
What letters were written here? This is Jane Austen’s portable ‘writing-box’, given by her father in 1794. Passed down through her family and presented to the British Library in 1999, it is shown with a pair of her spectacles and an ink pot
Add 86841
What letters were written here? This is Jane Austen’s portable ‘writing-box’, given by her father in 1794. Passed down through her family and presented to the British Library in 1999, it is shown with a pair of her spectacles and an ink pot
Add 86841
#museum30 day 27: discovery
I visited the space shuttle Discovery last month with my family while visiting DC, and now have a 7yo now very into space after having a brief existential crisis in the IMAX watching a film on space travel.
airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...
I visited the space shuttle Discovery last month with my family while visiting DC, and now have a 7yo now very into space after having a brief existential crisis in the IMAX watching a film on space travel.
airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...
November 27, 2024 at 5:38 PM
#museum30 day 27: discovery
I visited the space shuttle Discovery last month with my family while visiting DC, and now have a 7yo now very into space after having a brief existential crisis in the IMAX watching a film on space travel.
airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...
I visited the space shuttle Discovery last month with my family while visiting DC, and now have a 7yo now very into space after having a brief existential crisis in the IMAX watching a film on space travel.
airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...
#museum30 day 26: handle
Saw this lovely handle on a restaurant door when we had to break for lunch in the middle of a long museum visit!
Saw this lovely handle on a restaurant door when we had to break for lunch in the middle of a long museum visit!
November 26, 2024 at 4:10 PM
#museum30 day 26: handle
Saw this lovely handle on a restaurant door when we had to break for lunch in the middle of a long museum visit!
Saw this lovely handle on a restaurant door when we had to break for lunch in the middle of a long museum visit!
#museum30 day 25: uncanny
Henry wrote a secret note to Anne, Anne wrote a secret note in reply, and her death trundled forward - one of the more powerful and unnerving manuscripts I’ve held…
Kings MS 9, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours)
Henry wrote a secret note to Anne, Anne wrote a secret note in reply, and her death trundled forward - one of the more powerful and unnerving manuscripts I’ve held…
Kings MS 9, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours)
November 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM
#museum30 day 25: uncanny
Henry wrote a secret note to Anne, Anne wrote a secret note in reply, and her death trundled forward - one of the more powerful and unnerving manuscripts I’ve held…
Kings MS 9, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours)
Henry wrote a secret note to Anne, Anne wrote a secret note in reply, and her death trundled forward - one of the more powerful and unnerving manuscripts I’ve held…
Kings MS 9, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours)
#museum30 day 23: organic
One of the most incredible collections I’ve seen are these flowers, made entirely of GLASS. Commissioned by Harvard, they were made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in Germany over a 50-yr period
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
One of the most incredible collections I’ve seen are these flowers, made entirely of GLASS. Commissioned by Harvard, they were made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in Germany over a 50-yr period
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
November 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM
#museum30 day 23: organic
One of the most incredible collections I’ve seen are these flowers, made entirely of GLASS. Commissioned by Harvard, they were made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in Germany over a 50-yr period
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
One of the most incredible collections I’ve seen are these flowers, made entirely of GLASS. Commissioned by Harvard, they were made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in Germany over a 50-yr period
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
#Museum30 day 21: face
It’s not as perhaps charming as the lovely bugs, but Add MS 28841, a prose treatise on the Seven Vices, Italy (Genoa), с. 1330 - c. 1340, has faces too! They’re quite busy with their meal.
It’s not as perhaps charming as the lovely bugs, but Add MS 28841, a prose treatise on the Seven Vices, Italy (Genoa), с. 1330 - c. 1340, has faces too! They’re quite busy with their meal.
November 21, 2024 at 9:47 PM
#Museum30 day 21: face
It’s not as perhaps charming as the lovely bugs, but Add MS 28841, a prose treatise on the Seven Vices, Italy (Genoa), с. 1330 - c. 1340, has faces too! They’re quite busy with their meal.
It’s not as perhaps charming as the lovely bugs, but Add MS 28841, a prose treatise on the Seven Vices, Italy (Genoa), с. 1330 - c. 1340, has faces too! They’re quite busy with their meal.
#Museum30 day 20: hardware
What tools can you not live without?? These ones keep us going: tape measures, knives for cutting foam, a cordless drill, and a scraper to clean old tape and labels off crates so we can reuse them
What tools can you not live without?? These ones keep us going: tape measures, knives for cutting foam, a cordless drill, and a scraper to clean old tape and labels off crates so we can reuse them
November 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
#Museum30 day 20: hardware
What tools can you not live without?? These ones keep us going: tape measures, knives for cutting foam, a cordless drill, and a scraper to clean old tape and labels off crates so we can reuse them
What tools can you not live without?? These ones keep us going: tape measures, knives for cutting foam, a cordless drill, and a scraper to clean old tape and labels off crates so we can reuse them
#Museum30 day 19: name
This is the earliest known signature of Joan of Arc, written ‘Jehanne’.
Letter to the citizens of Riom, (9 Nov 1429): Archives municipale de la Ville de Riom, AA33. This letter has never previously left Riom, the town to which it was sent by Joan almost 600 years ago.
This is the earliest known signature of Joan of Arc, written ‘Jehanne’.
Letter to the citizens of Riom, (9 Nov 1429): Archives municipale de la Ville de Riom, AA33. This letter has never previously left Riom, the town to which it was sent by Joan almost 600 years ago.
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
#Museum30 day 19: name
This is the earliest known signature of Joan of Arc, written ‘Jehanne’.
Letter to the citizens of Riom, (9 Nov 1429): Archives municipale de la Ville de Riom, AA33. This letter has never previously left Riom, the town to which it was sent by Joan almost 600 years ago.
This is the earliest known signature of Joan of Arc, written ‘Jehanne’.
Letter to the citizens of Riom, (9 Nov 1429): Archives municipale de la Ville de Riom, AA33. This letter has never previously left Riom, the town to which it was sent by Joan almost 600 years ago.
#Museum30 day 18: paper
Want to see the world’s earliest dated, printed book? It’s called the Diamond Sutra, and is on display in the Silk Road Oasis exh on now at the BL! Almost 5m long, this woodblock print on paper dates to 868 CE and was sealed in Cave 17 in Dunhuang.
Want to see the world’s earliest dated, printed book? It’s called the Diamond Sutra, and is on display in the Silk Road Oasis exh on now at the BL! Almost 5m long, this woodblock print on paper dates to 868 CE and was sealed in Cave 17 in Dunhuang.
November 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
#Museum30 day 18: paper
Want to see the world’s earliest dated, printed book? It’s called the Diamond Sutra, and is on display in the Silk Road Oasis exh on now at the BL! Almost 5m long, this woodblock print on paper dates to 868 CE and was sealed in Cave 17 in Dunhuang.
Want to see the world’s earliest dated, printed book? It’s called the Diamond Sutra, and is on display in the Silk Road Oasis exh on now at the BL! Almost 5m long, this woodblock print on paper dates to 868 CE and was sealed in Cave 17 in Dunhuang.
#Museum30 day 16: bug
I have absolutely failed as a registrar because I can’t find the shelfmark or folio noted down but we do have this absolutely sick manuscript with hella rad bugs
I have absolutely failed as a registrar because I can’t find the shelfmark or folio noted down but we do have this absolutely sick manuscript with hella rad bugs
November 16, 2024 at 7:19 PM
#Museum30 day 16: bug
I have absolutely failed as a registrar because I can’t find the shelfmark or folio noted down but we do have this absolutely sick manuscript with hella rad bugs
I have absolutely failed as a registrar because I can’t find the shelfmark or folio noted down but we do have this absolutely sick manuscript with hella rad bugs
#Museum30 day 13: joy
One of my greatest joys in museums is sharing them with my child, and watching how they find their own joy in all the exhibitions I drag them to
One of my greatest joys in museums is sharing them with my child, and watching how they find their own joy in all the exhibitions I drag them to
November 13, 2024 at 7:47 PM
#Museum30 day 13: joy
One of my greatest joys in museums is sharing them with my child, and watching how they find their own joy in all the exhibitions I drag them to
One of my greatest joys in museums is sharing them with my child, and watching how they find their own joy in all the exhibitions I drag them to
#Museum30 day 11: transit
As a registrar, my work deals with A LOT of transport, and we have so so many fun (terrifying) stories to tell.
but instead I will take this chance to plug a book about the way art is moved and made (written by my husband)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
As a registrar, my work deals with A LOT of transport, and we have so so many fun (terrifying) stories to tell.
but instead I will take this chance to plug a book about the way art is moved and made (written by my husband)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
November 11, 2024 at 6:13 PM
#Museum30 day 11: transit
As a registrar, my work deals with A LOT of transport, and we have so so many fun (terrifying) stories to tell.
but instead I will take this chance to plug a book about the way art is moved and made (written by my husband)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
As a registrar, my work deals with A LOT of transport, and we have so so many fun (terrifying) stories to tell.
but instead I will take this chance to plug a book about the way art is moved and made (written by my husband)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
#Museum30 day 10: observe
A photo from a few weeks ago, taken from the observation deck of the Udvar-Hazy Centre. While you can watch planes land and take off from Dulles, I was more focused on the brilliant fall leaves!
A photo from a few weeks ago, taken from the observation deck of the Udvar-Hazy Centre. While you can watch planes land and take off from Dulles, I was more focused on the brilliant fall leaves!
November 10, 2024 at 9:09 PM
#Museum30 day 10: observe
A photo from a few weeks ago, taken from the observation deck of the Udvar-Hazy Centre. While you can watch planes land and take off from Dulles, I was more focused on the brilliant fall leaves!
A photo from a few weeks ago, taken from the observation deck of the Udvar-Hazy Centre. While you can watch planes land and take off from Dulles, I was more focused on the brilliant fall leaves!
Had a remarkable time #ERC2024! So lovely to meet or catch up with so many colleagues from all over. Congratulations to all the speakers, sponsors, and organisers, and I can’t wait to see you in Berlin in 2026!!
November 9, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Had a remarkable time #ERC2024! So lovely to meet or catch up with so many colleagues from all over. Congratulations to all the speakers, sponsors, and organisers, and I can’t wait to see you in Berlin in 2026!!
And a bonus item! The label reads: Recovered from the verso of the outermost membrane of Or 1047 - under the larger piece of linen but partially over the smaller ones.
It appears the previous repairs were left to dry on newsprint and these fragments adhered to the parchment.
It appears the previous repairs were left to dry on newsprint and these fragments adhered to the parchment.
November 9, 2024 at 7:48 PM
And a bonus item! The label reads: Recovered from the verso of the outermost membrane of Or 1047 - under the larger piece of linen but partially over the smaller ones.
It appears the previous repairs were left to dry on newsprint and these fragments adhered to the parchment.
It appears the previous repairs were left to dry on newsprint and these fragments adhered to the parchment.
#Museum30 day 5: glow
Visit the Silk Road Oasis exhibition at the British Library to see this gorgeous glowing sculpture by artist Xie Xiaoze, titled ‘Rain of Languages (Buddhist Sutras)’. It is installed with a light underneath to show the ‘floating’ letters within.
Visit the Silk Road Oasis exhibition at the British Library to see this gorgeous glowing sculpture by artist Xie Xiaoze, titled ‘Rain of Languages (Buddhist Sutras)’. It is installed with a light underneath to show the ‘floating’ letters within.
November 5, 2024 at 7:10 PM
#Museum30 day 5: glow
Visit the Silk Road Oasis exhibition at the British Library to see this gorgeous glowing sculpture by artist Xie Xiaoze, titled ‘Rain of Languages (Buddhist Sutras)’. It is installed with a light underneath to show the ‘floating’ letters within.
Visit the Silk Road Oasis exhibition at the British Library to see this gorgeous glowing sculpture by artist Xie Xiaoze, titled ‘Rain of Languages (Buddhist Sutras)’. It is installed with a light underneath to show the ‘floating’ letters within.
#Museum30 day 4: habitat
While I love a well-organised desk, workshop or trolley, and I delight in a crisp fall or bright spring day, my own native habitat is, in fact, the below. While it exceeds the environmental parameters of our collection materials, it fits mine just right.
While I love a well-organised desk, workshop or trolley, and I delight in a crisp fall or bright spring day, my own native habitat is, in fact, the below. While it exceeds the environmental parameters of our collection materials, it fits mine just right.
November 4, 2024 at 7:41 PM
#Museum30 day 4: habitat
While I love a well-organised desk, workshop or trolley, and I delight in a crisp fall or bright spring day, my own native habitat is, in fact, the below. While it exceeds the environmental parameters of our collection materials, it fits mine just right.
While I love a well-organised desk, workshop or trolley, and I delight in a crisp fall or bright spring day, my own native habitat is, in fact, the below. While it exceeds the environmental parameters of our collection materials, it fits mine just right.
#Museum30 day 3: textile
Earlier this year I saw this incredible ‘quilt’ at the Detroit Institute of Arts- it’s actually a massive mosaic by Romare Bearden titled ‘Quilting Time’ from 1986
Earlier this year I saw this incredible ‘quilt’ at the Detroit Institute of Arts- it’s actually a massive mosaic by Romare Bearden titled ‘Quilting Time’ from 1986
November 3, 2024 at 5:07 PM
#Museum30 day 3: textile
Earlier this year I saw this incredible ‘quilt’ at the Detroit Institute of Arts- it’s actually a massive mosaic by Romare Bearden titled ‘Quilting Time’ from 1986
Earlier this year I saw this incredible ‘quilt’ at the Detroit Institute of Arts- it’s actually a massive mosaic by Romare Bearden titled ‘Quilting Time’ from 1986
#Museum30 sometimes decisions about framing are based on very practical concerns: this map wasn’t framed bc we couldn’t move it out of the building if it was. Other giant maps for this loan (once packed into t-frames) had to pulled through doorways on moving blankets to fit!
November 15, 2023 at 10:12 PM
#Museum30 sometimes decisions about framing are based on very practical concerns: this map wasn’t framed bc we couldn’t move it out of the building if it was. Other giant maps for this loan (once packed into t-frames) had to pulled through doorways on moving blankets to fit!
#Museum30 Storage! Ever wonder where the books are at St Pancras? They can’t all be in the picturesque King’s Library! Take a look at the model and spot our stacks - 4 floors deep under the building and piazza!
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Photograph by Mike Peel (mikepeel.net)
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Photograph by Mike Peel (mikepeel.net)
November 13, 2023 at 8:57 PM
#Museum30 Storage! Ever wonder where the books are at St Pancras? They can’t all be in the picturesque King’s Library! Take a look at the model and spot our stacks - 4 floors deep under the building and piazza!
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Photograph by Mike Peel (mikepeel.net)
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Photograph by Mike Peel (mikepeel.net)