Stewart J. Brookes
@stewartbrookes.bsky.social
Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
Living my best life![1]
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Broxb. 90.28)
[1] Aside from playing board games with my kids 😏
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Broxb. 90.28)
[1] Aside from playing board games with my kids 😏
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Living my best life![1]
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Broxb. 90.28)
[1] Aside from playing board games with my kids 😏
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Broxb. 90.28)
[1] Aside from playing board games with my kids 😏
Well played, Connections! I didn’t stand a ghost of a chance…
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Well played, Connections! I didn’t stand a ghost of a chance…
Worthy of notice…
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Worthy of notice…
Ann Wilson is my mortgage broker, asking “how do I get you a loan?”
September 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ann Wilson is my mortgage broker, asking “how do I get you a loan?”
Have you seen this Voynich boardgame, @lisafdavis.bsky.social? Looks fun! And what do we think abt the way that their poll is tipping?
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
August 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Have you seen this Voynich boardgame, @lisafdavis.bsky.social? Looks fun! And what do we think abt the way that their poll is tipping?
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Cataloguing fragments in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social is living my best life. 45 mins. Discuss.
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Cataloguing fragments in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social is living my best life. 45 mins. Discuss.
This always cheers me up! I planted it (shock, horror!) 40 years ago and it’s been travelling with me from house to house.
June 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This always cheers me up! I planted it (shock, horror!) 40 years ago and it’s been travelling with me from house to house.
Here’s the oldest church near me, with a mention in Domesday, on the site of an early medieval predecessor. If it wasn’t so hot, I’d walk 20 mins further to an older one 😏
June 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Here’s the oldest church near me, with a mention in Domesday, on the site of an early medieval predecessor. If it wasn’t so hot, I’d walk 20 mins further to an older one 😏
"Achilles at Lincoln: Unlocking the Medieval Text of a Classical Poem", @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social & Simon Whedbee. Showcasing Linc. Coll. MS lat. 27, a medieval manuscript containing the 1st-century CE epic poem of the life of Achilles by the Latin poet Statius.
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Achilles at Lincoln: Unlocking the Medieval Text of a Classical Poem", @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social & Simon Whedbee. Showcasing Linc. Coll. MS lat. 27, a medieval manuscript containing the 1st-century CE epic poem of the life of Achilles by the Latin poet Statius.
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
I so much want to play this expansion to Heroquest, but am a little way off the minimum age recommendation... #heroquest
June 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I so much want to play this expansion to Heroquest, but am a little way off the minimum age recommendation... #heroquest
Nimue berates a trapped Merlin:
"Why don't you believe it when you finally found the truth?
You've been drinking poison water from the fountain of youth!
Why don't you stop tearing up everyone you need the most?
You're so busy trying to get even,
You never even try to get close!"
"Why don't you believe it when you finally found the truth?
You've been drinking poison water from the fountain of youth!
Why don't you stop tearing up everyone you need the most?
You're so busy trying to get even,
You never even try to get close!"
May 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Nimue berates a trapped Merlin:
"Why don't you believe it when you finally found the truth?
You've been drinking poison water from the fountain of youth!
Why don't you stop tearing up everyone you need the most?
You're so busy trying to get even,
You never even try to get close!"
"Why don't you believe it when you finally found the truth?
You've been drinking poison water from the fountain of youth!
Why don't you stop tearing up everyone you need the most?
You're so busy trying to get even,
You never even try to get close!"
Me & @britishlibrary.bsky.social:
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming 'round
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Every now and then
I get a little bit angry
And I know I've got to get out and cry
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming 'round
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Every now and then
I get a little bit angry
And I know I've got to get out and cry
May 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Me & @britishlibrary.bsky.social:
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming 'round
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Every now and then
I get a little bit angry
And I know I've got to get out and cry
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming 'round
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Every now and then
I get a little bit angry
And I know I've got to get out and cry
Professor Sharon Rowley @senatehouselib.bsky.social at @ies-sas.bsky.social palaeography seminar: "Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts"
May 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Professor Sharon Rowley @senatehouselib.bsky.social at @ies-sas.bsky.social palaeography seminar: "Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts"
I’ve cut (!) my hair to donate it to make a wig for a child that has sadly lost their hair due to chemotherapy. If you’d like to support the charity’s endeavours, then I’d be grateful for your support:
www.justgiving.com/page/zgbbarm...
www.justgiving.com/page/zgbbarm...
May 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I’ve cut (!) my hair to donate it to make a wig for a child that has sadly lost their hair due to chemotherapy. If you’d like to support the charity’s endeavours, then I’d be grateful for your support:
www.justgiving.com/page/zgbbarm...
www.justgiving.com/page/zgbbarm...
The excitement is all the way up to 11…
May 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The excitement is all the way up to 11…
A ripple of excitement went through the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Reading Room when I opened this. But that’s a story for not today 😏
April 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A ripple of excitement went through the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Reading Room when I opened this. But that’s a story for not today 😏
Online catalogue of medieval fragments in Spain: omp.uv.es/index.php/PU...
March 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Online catalogue of medieval fragments in Spain: omp.uv.es/index.php/PU...
Gorgeous example of the runic letter-form “wynn” (“w”) in the opening to the Old English poem “Widsið”
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Gorgeous example of the runic letter-form “wynn” (“w”) in the opening to the Old English poem “Widsið”
Fran Alvarez, ‘The importance of being a host: new medieval fragments from the libraries of Exeter Cathedral and the University of Salamanca’
@ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social
@ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Fran Alvarez, ‘The importance of being a host: new medieval fragments from the libraries of Exeter Cathedral and the University of Salamanca’
@ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social
@ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social
It’s the Lego Librarian — helping with shelving.
March 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It’s the Lego Librarian — helping with shelving.