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A black page for Laurence Sterne, who died 250 years ago today.
This is a terrific bit of myth busting about paper in the C16 & C17: collation.folger.edu/2018/02/writin…
First time I have seen a graphic representation of an object currently removed for study 👏 #JosephHotungGallery @britishmuseum
Google tells me there are nearly 130 million books ever published. Somehow I thought there'd be more. I wonder if that's just print? Maybe it's wrong. What do you think?
Handy comparison of different coloured wee. From the fantastic 'Designing English' exhibition at @bodleianlibs. Top work @DanielWakelin1! bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-…
One of many volumes in India Office Records containing a total of 60,000 signatures protesting against the partition of Bengal in 1905. blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…
Material Texters! Check out this @LRB review by @roguepages of the 'Art of Reading' show at @MuseumMeermanno in The Hague: lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/12/1…
A new blog post by Sebastian Sobecki, @SebSobecki @univgroningen, "Saewulf’s Lost Arabic Map", is availbale at ow.ly/HkWC30h9va4
Some manuscript waste covers from our collection. When a book was no longer relevant, usable, or legible, its leaves could be re-used in bindings, which allowed to save money on materials (and made for some beautiful covers!)
FYI. #medievaltwitter. Les manuscrits du Mont-Saint-Michel accessible sur Internet lefigaro.fr/culture/2017/0…
15-min BBC History podcast. Neil MacGregor on the history & practice of Christian, Islamic & Buddhist pilgrimage ow.ly/beUl30guirW
Ladies' night (Watriquet de Couvin 1325)
Read Great Expectations in its original weekly instalments and join in the weekly twitter discussion. These realtime readalongs are ace!
Contributors wanted! Join us to read and tweet Great Expectations in real time! Starts 1 December, details here: …atexpectationsreadalong.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/gre…
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