Sam Brown
@samuscript.bsky.social
PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch. www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year
We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.
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I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...
William Bedwell and his World: In Conversation With the Curators
William Bedwell and his World: In Conversation with Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown, and the curators of the exhibition about Bedwell
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This is an Arabic magical amulet, designed to be rolled up inside a necklace to provide protection to the wearer. The text includes several verses from the Quran. It was *printed* in Egypt around the 11th century, probably by a local (Romani?) magician. #medievalists #BookHistory #manuscripts
Very excited for this evening's online @rcpmuseum.bsky.social event 📚 After a tour of the current bookish exhibition by @girlinthe.bsky.social, @awickenden.bsky.social will talk about libraries, and I will talk about some Arabic books. Get your ticket here ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-body-of-...
A body of knowledge: winter lectures
Join us to explore recent research into how we investigate the history of libraries like the collections of the Royal College of Physicians.
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A reminder to book for the (online) @rcpmuseum.bsky.social Winter Lectures next Tuesday! a guided tour of the exhibition by @girlinthe.bsky.social, a lecture on Lancelot Browne and Arabic books by @samuscript.bsky.social, and a lecture from me on libraries 📚 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
A body of knowledge: winter lectures | RCP Museum
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7 more days 🥳 Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online! Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...
📣 Librarian and library-loving friends! On Tuesday at 7pm GMT there’s a free online Q&A with Kim Snyder, director of ‘The Librarians’. For more details and to book visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/q-and-a-wi.... It’s being run by a UK documentary group but all are welcome!
Q and A with Kim Snyder, Director of "The Librarians"
We Are Doc Women Presents an online Q&A with the director of "The Librarians", Kim Snyder.
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📣 Librarian and library-loving friends! On Tuesday at 7pm GMT there’s a free online Q&A with Kim Snyder, director of ‘The Librarians’. For more details and to book visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/q-and-a-wi.... It’s being run by a UK documentary group but all are welcome!
Q and A with Kim Snyder, Director of "The Librarians"
We Are Doc Women Presents an online Q&A with the director of "The Librarians", Kim Snyder.
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We are delighted to announce a virtual winter lectures for exhibition 'A body of knowledge' is open to book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... 🗓️ 6pm GMT, 9 Dec, £5 😍 Featuring a virtual exhibition tour & fascinating lectures from @awickenden.bsky.social & @samuscript.bsky.social! #LibraryHistory
If there's anything more exciting than seeing a book you work on in an exhibition, it's surely being invited to talk about it. Very excited for this event next month! 📷 Lancelot Browne's annotated copy of Avicenna in Arabic at the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social exhibition, 'A body of knowledge'.
Katie Birkwood@girlinthe.bsky.social · 11mo agoMega excited that @awickenden.bsky.social and @samuscript.bsky.social are speaking on 9 December for @rcpmuseum.bsky.social winter lectures. Online, 6pm GMT, £5, book now: history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... #LibraryHistory #GLAM📚
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
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And day 2 of #BuiltWithBooks was also a joy (so much so that I’ve spent most of today recovering from the excitement!). Thank you to all our speakers and attendees for making it a huge success - cake and merch for the win, but nothing beats a room full of interesting, generous book historians.
And what an EXCELLENT paper it was - so excited to play with the tools and pester you with questions about using all the data (apologies in advance…)
Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz.bsky.social · last yr.Day two of the Built With Books conference @livesandletters.bsky.social ! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England
Such a fantastic first day at our @livesandletters.bsky.social Built with Books symposium. Heading home to finish my paper (😅) full of ideas and excited for day two. #BuiltWithBooks #EarlyModern #BookHistory
apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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📣 Exciting Bedwell news 📣 I’m thrilled to have assisted with a new exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, ‘Getting the Measure of William Bedwell: Maths, Measurement and the Arabic World’. Top tip: pair your visit with a walk around the corner to see his church for full WB/early modern Tottenham vibes.
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Sorry, kids. Prepare to be SHOCKED and OFFENDED by the scarcity of Arabic books in sixteenth-century England.
Brodie Waddell@brodiewaddell.bsky.social · last yr.Sorry, kids. Prepare to be SHOCKED and OFFENDED by the high levels of rural proletarianization in seventeenth-century England.
Can anyone with much better Arabic palaeography skills than me transcribe this? It is the end of a note written by a Moroccan in a European album amicorum. I’m trying to work out if the name we have for the person who wrote it comes from the inscription itself or another source, but struggling…
Bullying, long hours and no jobs: Inside the TV industry's mental health crisis - with over 50% of the tv industy out of work, how are the government planning on supporting it? inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Bullying, long hours and no jobs: Inside the TV industry's mental health crisis
A recent survey found one in three people working in the British film and TV industry rate their mental health as 'poor' or 'very poor' - and it's getting worse
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(you have to be sixteen or older to use the Library of Congress' reading rooms)
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
My conference tattoo may be fading, but the research, conversations and unadulterated geekery of FEATHERS’ Scribes and Inky Fingerprints will be with me for quite some time. If you weren’t here I’m afraid you really did miss out…
In two weeks' time! Join us in the evening of 19 May for an exciting conversation about 'changing the record: how people use(d) paperwork to make their world. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-t... #YayArchives #SkyStorians #HistArchives
If someone would like to pay me to move to Leiden that would be delightful, thank you
Very excited to be en route to Leiden to talk about Arabic correspondence in England (obviously feat. William Bedwell) at the FEATHERS conference. Less excited at being stationary on the tarmac at Stansted for longer than the journey will take…
Come and join us at @livesandletters.bsky.social to talk about #EarlyModern libraries! Two weeks to get your abstracts in! Check the website for full details, incl. how PhDs and ECRs can apply for funding to attend…
UCL Early Modern Exchanges@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · last yr.CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Submit by 16th May This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Do pop along tomorrow for our event at 5 on Muslim ambassadors: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The Play of Negotiation: Muslim Ambassadors in Spanish Classical Theatre
Early Modern Exchanges welcomes Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva to discuss unearthing cultural heritage and analysing the interplay between actual Islamic representatives in Habsburg Madrid and the different ar...
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