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Tamara Atkin
@tamarajatkin.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
I’m seeing “Mary Salmon”, but are my eyes deceiving me?
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
www.asc.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Is there anyone here that can help me turn a spreadsheet (prices and sellers codes of two batches of books) into something approaching a legible table/visualization?
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Friends, are you seeing an”H” (as in “Honorabilis” before “Gomecij”? Or is it some other abbreviation that’s eluding me?
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Shepherds’ delight
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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You said, we did!
• Gate entry noises (except alarms)=off on both floors!
• Height-adjustable Quick Search machine=available!
• Shelf-ends for books=progressing!
• Two sets of piano headphones=in place!
• Monitors spread out=done!
Please keep the post-its and opinions coming; it really helps!
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I'm thrilled to be teaching a short course on Arabic Studies in Early Modern England with Prof. Alastair Hamilton at @warburginstitute.bsky.social next month. We'll need to meet a minimum number of bookings to run, so if you're interested, sign up asap! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Crossing the world without an interpreter: Arabic studies in England 1550-1640
warburg.sas.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Well that’s one way to spend Monday. Thanks to the Island Archives for having us @drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Back in Guersney for some #fragment fun with @tamarajatkin.bsky.social hosted by the Island Archives's Callum Tostevin-Hall.
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Criss cross
October 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Fo. 3? 10d? Thoughts?!
October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Book nerds! What would your dream “book history” masters degrees look like?
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Yay! Huge congratulations!!
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🎥 📚

I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.

If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).

Thank you!
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Another day another photoshoot
September 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Okay. I’ve managed to flip the document and the words “hath” and “upon” now ping out. Any other thoughts?
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Who can I write to to ask some questions about a book in the Beinecke? There’s a digital surrogate but I have some outstanding queries about the binding!
September 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Niche plea: does anyone have images of the binding, including pastedowns and endleaves of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IUB00496? It’s a Sammelband of 10 plays, including several by Shakespeare, all printed before 1665?
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Very excited to see this published today. global.oup.com/academic/pro... I have a chapter on “medieval inheritance”. Huge congrats to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe for marshalling this beast into print!
global.oup.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Does anyone have easily to hand: William Proctor Williams, 'F1 Coriolanus Fragment Found in 17th Century Binding', Shakespeare Newsletter 16 (1966)?
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Capital holiday
September 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM