Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)

A prince in sixth-century A.D. Germany was buried with a sword on his right side and a lyre in his left arm. One archaeologist believes that such medieval warlords were often also bards who led their people in both battle and song! archaeology.org/issues/septe... #History #HistoryMatters

For #EYAErased we thought we'd share this will from 1568 recently produced from our strongrooms for an enquirer. The dirt is so ingrained into this piece of parchment that we have to be careful when cleaning it as ink sits on top of the parchment and could be easily erased! #ExploreYourArchive

Cute beardy face doodled at the back of ‘The copies of certaine letters which have passed between Spaine and England in matter of religion’, edited by William Bedell (London, 1624). Part of Peterborough Cathedral Library, @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Pet.P.2.38.

Patchwork of waste on the inner plates of this MS: a 14th-c copy of Alexander of VillaDei's Doctrinale with elaborate commentary gloss, and different copies of the Pauline epistles to Timotheus, one fairly old (@jlugiessen.bsky.social, Hs 1105) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP000655C10...

This letter is dated the following year - were there more examples of the Christmas Truce? #NSHD2026

Mae'r llythyr hwn, o gasgliad Clwb Athletau Casnewydd, yn dangos sut y gall treftadaeth chwaraeon ryngweithio a chysylltu â digwyddiadau hanesyddol pwysig.

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála/Book of Invasions, and it is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10:00-16:30, Mon-Fri. Come visit! Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this Manuscript and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.

Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social · yesterday

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála/Book of Invasions. This is not the name of a specific manuscript but of an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in variant versions, traced to the 7th C. This copy was produced in 1631 by the scholars known as the Four Masters.

This item is one of the over 150 letters from Club members serving during World War One back to Newport Athletic Club.

Collophon likely created 50 years after the date of the manuscript itself St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 20; The Wolfcoz Psalter: Psalterium Gallicanum with Cantica; around 820-830; St. Gall; p.327 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Bridgnorth diary 26/9/1866

Ry'n ni'n dal i dderbyn enwau! Cysylltwch cyn gynted â phosibl!

The glorious autumn sunshine finally came out at sunset yesterday over the ancient Tyddewi/St David's cathedral - flying the flag of Owain Glyndwr 🌞 Have a great Sunday everyone 👌 📷 My own

This letter also shows an important time during World War One with growing anxieties around numbers of men enlisting in the war effort. The Derby Scheme was introduced only six months later followed by mandatory conscription the following year. #NSHD2026

Mae'r llythyr hwn oddi wrth Bwyllgor Amddiffyn Cenedlaethol Casnewydd yn eitem ddiddorol gan ei bod yn gofyn i Glwb Athletau Casnewydd hyfforddi dynion a oedd wedi methu'r archwiliad corfforol gyda'r gobaith y gallai'r dynion hyn wedyn ymrestru.

A beautiful evening in Tyddewi/St David's last night. The extraordinary cathedral never disappoints..🤩 📷 My own

May 1644, contract for William Gabriel joiner to the Earl of Moray at Donibristle, 'wainscot according to the subscribed draught ... for every capital head (according to the mantle-sill in the said room) ten shillings sterling'

For Ceolfrith's day, I'll reup the link to the Codex Amiatinus online — still there, deo gratias! See the thread for tips on getting to the downloadable pages you want if you want to save images.

Carin Ruff@carinr.bsky.social · last yr.

Manuscript news you can use! The Codex Amiatinus has a new online interface, w/a few oddities but in general a big improvement in one respect. Read on for tedious but useful details. #medievalsky 🧵 The landing page for the digital Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana is tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org

Interested in learning more about the Medieval world and books like this one? Join us tomorrow, 26 September, as part of the 2026 Medieval Faire. You can find more information here: https://ow.ly/y4Zg50ZR5r4 📸: Psalterium Benedictinum cum canticis et hymnis, Peter Schoeffer, 1490, Ref. JRL19080004

Bridgnorth diary 24/9/1866

Woodworm and wood weevils can turn any document into a fine mesh of losses, which is why archives have policies and procedures in place - such as quarantining new accessions - to stop pests getting into the stores. #EYAErased #ArchiveConservation

Plas yr Esgob – Neuadd y Dref Bangor nawr yn gartref i Amgueddfa Storiel --- Episcopal Palace Bangor (Bishop’s Palace) – Bangor Town Hall now home to Storiel Museum

Love this thread!

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall@merchantshallyork.org · 5d ago

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

Uchafbwynt go iawn yn yr eitemau am y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yw’r ohebiaeth bersonol a’r llythyrau gan aelodau'r Clwb - hyd yn oed o dramor tra roeddent yn gwasanaethu.

Did you hear our archivist Annie on BBC Radio Devon this week? She spoke about the loan of 7 letters from our Agatha Christie Business Papers to the British Library for their forthcoming exhibition Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery, opening in October. You can still listen here, from 01:14:00! ⬇️

Caroline Densley - 23/09/2026 - BBC Sounds

Caroline gets Devon talking and celebrates the best of what's going on in the county.

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Can anyone point me in the direct of nice images of early modern female scribes at work?

A woman leaves the following to her children in her 1681 will 🤔 To my son Henry, 10s, a six year old sheep and a stall of bees; To my daughter Joan, £2, my best hat, my best suit, my cloth waistcoat, black suit, two stalls of bees, all my poultry and a box; 1/2

Really happy with this piece now published in the magazine "Istor Breizh" (in French), about the Irish manuscript tradition from the 11th to the 19th century. Many thanks to @rialibrary.bsky.social for allowing me to reproduce pictures of the manuscripts! istorbreizh.bzh/produit/nume...

For International Caravan Day, we’re sharing a favourite from the archives! This delightful childhood notebook by folklorist Theo Brown captures a caravan holiday on Dartmoor in the 1920s through a series of charming stories and illustrations. 📷 EUL MS 388/94 #InternationalCaravanDay #Archives

Plan of property at Rhyl rateable under the Rhuddlan Marsh Embankment Act in the parish of Rhuddlan, county of Flint Dim dyddiad / No date Bodrhyddan/3187