Excellent spolia at Mildenhall Warren Lodge. Such a fascinating piece of medieval history revealed in a recent episode of The Food Programme 🐇 @thesheiladillon.bsky.social @bbcradio4
Kristine Rose-Beers
@iamkristine.bsky.social
Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries. All views my own 🇪🇺 #CULconservation
Delighted to see The Journal highlight plans for the National Library’s West Wing, which will open to the public for the first time following redevelopment. 📚✨ Read more: https://www.thejournal.ie/national-library-of-ireland-west-wing-redevelopment-7157048-Sep2026
National Library's west wing to open to the public for the first time after redevelopment
Minister for Culture Patrick O’Donovan said the next phase of the library’s redevelopment will now proceed to tender.
thejournal.ie
Beautiful details at All Saints, Walesby in the Lincolnshire wolds. Such an atmospheric space on the Viking Way.
“To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.” Elizabeth David, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine. Climate change is real. Fig harvest, East Anglia, 2nd August.
Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...
A 'Red Admirable', which we now call a Red Admiral! From Drawings of English Butterflies by Sir Thomas Gage (1781–1820) Vol. I, 1799 (Hengrave 61).
Gorgeous bronze & horn gift label, recording the donation of this volume to Bury Grammar School by one William Buckberd in the summer of 1565. It contains four works printed in Cologne & Antwerp in the 1560s, including Cato’s Distichs & Aesop’s Fables. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Bury.48.7.
This first edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince contains the story of a secret love affair... 📖The Happy Prince: and other tales by Oscar Wilde illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, 1888. (Keynes.X.6.3) #LGBTQ+ #PrideMonth #RareBooks #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
Illuminated initial F with St Jerome and a mysterious kneeling chap (any ideas?). In a Bible printed at Strasbourg c. 1473 and illuminated in France soon after printing. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.A.2.2[3774].
Chun comóradh 60 bliain ó d’fhoilsigh Seamus Heaney a chéad chnuasach filíochta, Death of a Naturalist, a cheiliúradh, breathnaímid siar ar a fhilíocht trí lionsa difriúil: https://www.nli.ie/ga/news-stories/scealta/seamus-heaney-fear-miotas-forbairt-file
Seamus Heaney: An Fear, an Miotas, Forbairt File
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An absolutely packed room at @antiquaries.bsky.social )and more on Zoom!) to hear Andrew Honey from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk: “Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library”
'Printed in Defiance – Making the 1916 Proclamation' explores the story behind one of Ireland’s most iconic documents—focusing on the people who made it possible. New exhibition now open at @ucclibrary.bsky.social
"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."
Earth Day reminds us: progress happens across systems. 🌱 @envconsjournal.bsky.social explores the science, policy, and practice shaping how we manage ecosystems, biodiversity, and sustainability at local to global scales: cambridge.org/enc #OurPowerOurPlanet #EarthDay @earthdayorg.bsky.social
Whether or not you have been to the Kederminster Library at Langley Marish (now in the suburbs of Slough), do share this one abd consider visiting. It’s utterly spectacular and worth a long journey. langleymarish.com/stmary/keder... - hats off for them for seeing that is open to be visited.
The new Book & Paper Conservation programme at @glasgow.ac.uk's Kelvin Centre has got off to a great start. As it's the first year there are just 4 students, numbers will increase in future years. Here's a blog from them about their first semester. iconscotland.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/b...
Book and Paper MPhil, Glasgow
By Teagan Kimbro, Anna McNulty, Charlotte Pryke and Brittany Wallace Date: January 2026 Students, (from left) Brittany Wallace, Anna McNulty, Teagan Kimbro, and Charlotte Pryke posing with paper sa…
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A perfect day @magogdown.bsky.social to admire swathes of cowslips and spot @theul.bsky.social #SpringWatch #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
We are part of a consortium funding conservation internships, others are Pilgrim,Swire, Radcliffe, Anna Plowden and Idlewild and Julia Rausing Trusts. Currently calling for EOIs from those interested in hosting the tapestry conservation internship. See www.icon.org.uk/resource/cal...
Call for Hosts: Tapestry Conservation Internship
Icon is inviting organisations to express interest in hosting a fully funded internship focused on tapestry conservation
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May not last, but today it’s full-on summer in Cambridge.
My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there
