Oliver House
@oliverhouse.bsky.social
Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
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Discover what London recycled during the Second World War, from bones to books to Blitz scrap. Join us at The London Archives on 10 December for an illustrated talk, an opportunity to browse original archival material and a Q&A session.
🎟️Book now: https://bit.ly/4rIGXLS
@ies-sas.bsky.social
🎟️Book now: https://bit.ly/4rIGXLS
@ies-sas.bsky.social
SAS and The London Archives: From Bones to Books to Blitz scrap-What London Recycled in Second World War
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December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Discover what London recycled during the Second World War, from bones to books to Blitz scrap. Join us at The London Archives on 10 December for an illustrated talk, an opportunity to browse original archival material and a Q&A session.
🎟️Book now: https://bit.ly/4rIGXLS
@ies-sas.bsky.social
🎟️Book now: https://bit.ly/4rIGXLS
@ies-sas.bsky.social
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Learn more about the School of Advanced Study and studying here.
(and look out for our brilliant librarians Paul Jackson and Rosario Rovira Guardiola who make a cameo!)
(and look out for our brilliant librarians Paul Jackson and Rosario Rovira Guardiola who make a cameo!)
At the School of Advanced Study, our students learn directly from sector-leading experts who bring cutting-edge research and real-world experience into the classroom.
Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk
Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Learn more about the School of Advanced Study and studying here.
(and look out for our brilliant librarians Paul Jackson and Rosario Rovira Guardiola who make a cameo!)
(and look out for our brilliant librarians Paul Jackson and Rosario Rovira Guardiola who make a cameo!)
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Looking forward to discussing printmakers' book forms with printmaker and book artist Marina Bindella in Rome tomorrow. This is the first outing of my monograph The Book Unbound, coming out universitypress.cambridge.org on 8 January. @blakesociety.bsky.social @blakequarterly.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Looking forward to discussing printmakers' book forms with printmaker and book artist Marina Bindella in Rome tomorrow. This is the first outing of my monograph The Book Unbound, coming out universitypress.cambridge.org on 8 January. @blakesociety.bsky.social @blakequarterly.bsky.social
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Applications are open for our Resilience Grants funding programme!
Our Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face.
Apply by Wednesday 21 January 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Our Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face.
Apply by Wednesday 21 January 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Applications are open for our Resilience Grants funding programme!
Our Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face.
Apply by Wednesday 21 January 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Our Resilience Grants, worth up to £20,000, support archives to respond to change and develop sustainable solutions to any challenges they face.
Apply by Wednesday 21 January 2026: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
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TODAY! A free online #webinar from @englishassociation.bsky.social at 4.45pm. Calling all #English #teachers! Come and join us to talk about close reading and what we can do with a #poem...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
Adventures in Close Reading Poetry with A History of England in 25 Poems
This webinar explores new ways into poetry analysis and ‘unseen poetry’
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
TODAY! A free online #webinar from @englishassociation.bsky.social at 4.45pm. Calling all #English #teachers! Come and join us to talk about close reading and what we can do with a #poem...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
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With #StormBram being in the news this morning, I thought that "Storm, Lyme Regis" by John Cooper from 1935 might be appropriate. Cooper painted extensively in & around Lyme & along the Dorset coast &, thankfully, several of those paintings are still known to exist. #JohnCooper #LymeRegis #Dorset
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
With #StormBram being in the news this morning, I thought that "Storm, Lyme Regis" by John Cooper from 1935 might be appropriate. Cooper painted extensively in & around Lyme & along the Dorset coast &, thankfully, several of those paintings are still known to exist. #JohnCooper #LymeRegis #Dorset
‘The brand will be on display at London Bridge station on December 9, where there will be a one-day exhibit including a GBR-branded Hornby model train…’ #railways
Great British Railways branding, train livery and logo unveiled
UK: The Department for Transport has unveiled the branding, train livery and logo of the future Great British Railways, which is to be established as a 'guiding mind' for the national network.
www.railwaygazette.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
‘The brand will be on display at London Bridge station on December 9, where there will be a one-day exhibit including a GBR-branded Hornby model train…’ #railways
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📣 Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a successful second seminar on Founding Collections in the 21st Century at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social.
The recordings are available on YouTube and the proceedings will be published!
#bookhistory
The recordings are available on YouTube and the proceedings will be published!
#bookhistory
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
📣 Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a successful second seminar on Founding Collections in the 21st Century at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social.
The recordings are available on YouTube and the proceedings will be published!
#bookhistory
The recordings are available on YouTube and the proceedings will be published!
#bookhistory
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A GOAT SPINE! 🤩🐐
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A GOAT SPINE! 🤩🐐
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
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Between 1828-9 Samuel Hasell excavated a villa at Pitney #Somerset
Sheds were built to protect the villa but sadly they had gone by 1836 and so had the mosaics 😞
All we have left are lithographs like this one by Hasell of Cadmus thrashing a python*
*don't Google this 😬
Happy #MosaicMonday
Sheds were built to protect the villa but sadly they had gone by 1836 and so had the mosaics 😞
All we have left are lithographs like this one by Hasell of Cadmus thrashing a python*
*don't Google this 😬
Happy #MosaicMonday
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Between 1828-9 Samuel Hasell excavated a villa at Pitney #Somerset
Sheds were built to protect the villa but sadly they had gone by 1836 and so had the mosaics 😞
All we have left are lithographs like this one by Hasell of Cadmus thrashing a python*
*don't Google this 😬
Happy #MosaicMonday
Sheds were built to protect the villa but sadly they had gone by 1836 and so had the mosaics 😞
All we have left are lithographs like this one by Hasell of Cadmus thrashing a python*
*don't Google this 😬
Happy #MosaicMonday
Had a fantastic day today @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social listening to colleagues from across Europe present on their founding collections for the @cerl-community.bsky.social annual seminar. Thanks to all involved!
We have had the pleasure today of hosting the second part of the 2025 annual CERL seminar: 'Your library is your portrait: Engaging with Founding Collections in the 21st century' CERL is the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
December 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Had a fantastic day today @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social listening to colleagues from across Europe present on their founding collections for the @cerl-community.bsky.social annual seminar. Thanks to all involved!
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'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' is still number eight English history bestseller at Waterstones. Perfect Christmas gift.
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' is still number eight English history bestseller at Waterstones. Perfect Christmas gift.
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If you're after a festive gift or want to treat yourself @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 40% discount on Songs of Seven Dials at the moment.
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If you're after a festive gift or want to treat yourself @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 40% discount on Songs of Seven Dials at the moment.
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
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Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the…
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the…
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the history of philosophy has been transformed through the recovery of early modern women philosophers, revaluing the forms they used and contexts in which they operated to write philosophy.
feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the…
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the…
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Today's edition of Thanks, I am Never Coming Out of the Archives are Kropotkin's notes on the manuscript of Modern Science and Anarchism in V.P. Žuk's papers held at the wonderful (and open access) Institute for Social History in Amsterdam :))
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today's edition of Thanks, I am Never Coming Out of the Archives are Kropotkin's notes on the manuscript of Modern Science and Anarchism in V.P. Žuk's papers held at the wonderful (and open access) Institute for Social History in Amsterdam :))
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We’re proud to hold a range of #EYADigital collections: photos, documents, audio, video and born-digital material.
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We’re proud to hold a range of #EYADigital collections: photos, documents, audio, video and born-digital material.
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
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The 14th-century Litlyngton Missal is a Latin manuscript which contains the readings and prayers used at the celebration of the Mass, along with a calendar of saints’ days.
You can turn the pages of a digitised copy of the Missal in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
#EYADigital
You can turn the pages of a digitised copy of the Missal in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
#EYADigital
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The 14th-century Litlyngton Missal is a Latin manuscript which contains the readings and prayers used at the celebration of the Mass, along with a calendar of saints’ days.
You can turn the pages of a digitised copy of the Missal in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
#EYADigital
You can turn the pages of a digitised copy of the Missal in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
#EYADigital
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📣Booking is now open for the London International Palaeography School 2026 📣
We are running five 5-day courses, from practical hands-on 'making medieval manuscripts' to an introduction to Arabic manuscripts - don't miss out!
10% discount if you book before 23 Jan!
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
We are running five 5-day courses, from practical hands-on 'making medieval manuscripts' to an introduction to Arabic manuscripts - don't miss out!
10% discount if you book before 23 Jan!
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
London International Palaeography School
The London International Palaeography School is a series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies.
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣Booking is now open for the London International Palaeography School 2026 📣
We are running five 5-day courses, from practical hands-on 'making medieval manuscripts' to an introduction to Arabic manuscripts - don't miss out!
10% discount if you book before 23 Jan!
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
We are running five 5-day courses, from practical hands-on 'making medieval manuscripts' to an introduction to Arabic manuscripts - don't miss out!
10% discount if you book before 23 Jan!
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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To help make our archival materials relating to the MENA region more accessible for research, the Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME) has made thousands of images & documents available online with metadata in English, Arabic & (where relevant) Sorani Kurdish.
➡️ dame.exeter.ac.uk
#EYADigital
➡️ dame.exeter.ac.uk
#EYADigital
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
To help make our archival materials relating to the MENA region more accessible for research, the Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME) has made thousands of images & documents available online with metadata in English, Arabic & (where relevant) Sorani Kurdish.
➡️ dame.exeter.ac.uk
#EYADigital
➡️ dame.exeter.ac.uk
#EYADigital
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Fresh on the catalogue today, item descriptions for Duchy Chamber proceedings up to the end of Phil & Mary [up to TNA DL 1/40]. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
Browse records of other archives | The National Archives
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December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fresh on the catalogue today, item descriptions for Duchy Chamber proceedings up to the end of Phil & Mary [up to TNA DL 1/40]. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
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‘Tis the season… for a little scare! 👻✨
Our December display in the Catalogue Hall is all about Christmas ghost stories.
Borrow one if you dare. 😉
Our December display in the Catalogue Hall is all about Christmas ghost stories.
Borrow one if you dare. 😉
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
‘Tis the season… for a little scare! 👻✨
Our December display in the Catalogue Hall is all about Christmas ghost stories.
Borrow one if you dare. 😉
Our December display in the Catalogue Hall is all about Christmas ghost stories.
Borrow one if you dare. 😉
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✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨
Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿
Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com ☺️
Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿
Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com ☺️
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨
Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿
Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com ☺️
Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿
Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com ☺️
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For #EYAPets we have - cat paw prints on a dusty shelf! Not sure if this is what @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social had in mind but we think they're cute. And that is absolutely the reason we haven't dusted the shelf....
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
For #EYAPets we have - cat paw prints on a dusty shelf! Not sure if this is what @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social had in mind but we think they're cute. And that is absolutely the reason we haven't dusted the shelf....
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
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Our annual conference is on March 7, 2026 in Inverness at the University of the Highlands and Islands! Click the link below for details on our CFP (due December 5, 2025) and this year's essay prize (due December 5, 2025)! Hope to see you there!
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
SASA 2026 | SASA
www.scotamstudies.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Our annual conference is on March 7, 2026 in Inverness at the University of the Highlands and Islands! Click the link below for details on our CFP (due December 5, 2025) and this year's essay prize (due December 5, 2025)! Hope to see you there!
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...