Director, Research & Collections, Cambridge University Library. Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College. Proctor. AIL Panel. Country House Library (2017). Private views.
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It's fun to remember how we celebrated the 900th anniversary of the Battle oh Hastings in 1966 the-tls.com/regular-features… @TheTLS I love this Pooh version by E Shepard complete with Latin (it was also 100th anniversary of Winnie the Pooh)
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A very scarce survival. A thin booklet from 1843. It charts the service, illness & pious death of a domestic servant called Maria as tribute to her and an example for others. Interesting social history: leaving us to wonder what Maria's own version would have been like.
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#StChad's Cathedral, #Birmingham. Designed by #AWNPugin and manufactured by #GeorgeMyers' workshop, 1838-41. @StChadsBirm
#pugin #gothicrevival #puginstchad #pugindesign #pugincathedral #puginbirmingham #gothicrevivalarchitecture #stchadcathedral #gothicrevivalcathedral #design
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Great news that 'The Abbey of St Edmund, Reborn' project at @stedscath has been awarded £7.137m in Heritage Lottery funding! This will see the completion of the Cathedral's western cloister with an Abbey interpretation centre, and much else besides
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Initial 'V'(erbum) at the beginning of the prophet Jeremiah:
"A A A, Dominus Deus, ecce nescio loqui, Qui puer ego sum."
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I; 12th century; f.195r @ParkerLibCCCC
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In Yorkshire, we build things bigger. The Brotherton Library at Leeds University, opened in 1936 thanks to a gift from industrialist Edward Brotherton, was modelled on the Reading Room of the British Museum.
Except, of course, it's 20ft wider.
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Today I'll be talking about chess in my lecture series on play in medieval German literature, taking in Tristan, Salman und Morolf, Flore und Blancheflur, and King Alfonso's Book of Games, drawing on Kricstina Ilko’s excellent Speculum article on chess and the Global Middle Ages.
ALT Manuscript image of people on a boat, with a man and woman playing chess as the man drinks from a cup
ALT Woodcut showing a man and woman playing chess
ALT Manuscript miniature showing two men playing chess in front of a tower.
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Much enjoyed hearing @Nus_Ghani speaking at Stationers’ Hall last night at the annual dinner marking the granting of the Company’s charter by Queen Mary in 1557.
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Funeral procession of Elizabeth I, 28 Apr 1603 (Images from the British Library)
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View from Queens Dock of the incredible Liverpool Cathedral.
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The Winchester Round Table, hanging in the Great Hall of Winchester Castle, is a medieval tabletop bearing the names of the knights of King Arthur. Built in the 13th century, it was used for a tournament during the reign of Edward I of England and later repainted by Henry VIII.
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Morning sunshine on the Rodney Street chimney pots, in the Georgian Quarter of Liverpool. This could have been a view from 200 years ago if it wasn't for the recent addition of Liverpool Cathedral in the background😀
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I always enjoy catching Stokesay Castle from a speeding train
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#Tiles designed by #AWNPugin, and manufactured by #HerbertMinton. #PalaceofWestminster, #London.
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Statue of High Renaissance painter and architecture Raphael, outside the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
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