...and for those on twitter, I passed my viva today with minor corrections. A very happy camper.

Want to teach and research LIS, and work in a lovely small team and with some AMAZING students? UCL Information Studies has a current vacancy for a lecturer (=assistant prof) in LIS, with a permanent teaching role (no PhD required) coming soon too. tinyurl.com/4jjvv385 (closes 7/4/24)

This week's book is Reading to Barbados and back. Echoes of British History: The Tudor family of Haynes of Reading by Stewart Johnson. It looks at the Haynes family, and Robert (b1769) in particular. Find it on the lending or reference sections at R/TQB/HAY #ReadingLocalHistory

We are about to plant another 30,000 trees - all in edges, hedges and cattle grazed landscapes

The number of trees you can get in to a traditionally farmed landscape is unreal

It’s not that hard if you want to, and use the non profitable bits of land and design it intelligently

Very best of luck! 😊

Interim information sources for British Library manuscripts

Dear readers, we ask for your kind assistance in sharing this blogpost. It lists freely available printed and online resources relating to our ancient, medieval and early modern manuscripts

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Absolutely delighted to have an early Christmas present this morning— copies of my first book! My research assistant has given it a thorough inspection 😆

Very many thanks to Caroline Palmer and all the team at Boydell & Brewer for their hard work!

My Opinion piece in Financial Times (and tomorrow in print) outlines my argument that the Ministry of Justice proposals on digitising and destroying public wills are foolhardy& short-sighted, misjudging the state of digital preservation & the importance of material evidence. on.ft.com/3RRv3PK

Today's thesis madness (and yes, to those keeping score, I am still in the last few weeks): just read over a paragraph, which reads 'the manuscript differentiates the different elements of the page through different scripts...' I think it's time for my medication. 😫

GCMS Director: We have another wonderful line-up of speakers and papers for our Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies Autumn Term Seminar Series. See below for full details. 4.30pm on Thursdays via Zoom. All welcome!

Working in Bodleian Libraries Weston today with headphones on shuffle, when #Dynamite by BTS_official came on. Surreal to look up at silent reading room. This is the moment I would usually be up and dancing. Trust me, in my head I was dancing 🕺 🎶 💜

A statement expressing our concerns about the 2024 IFLA World Library and Information Congress and expression of encouragement for CILIP to boycott the conference.

Our summer 2023 newsletter is out now 📰

Read a conference report from the 'Reading and Book Circulation, 1600-1800' conference 2023, find out about Victorian women in Leeds Library and much more!
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Currently mired in rewrite of what I think all concerned can agree is weakest chapter of thesis. Husband brought strawberries to my desk. Rewriting with strawberries is definitely an improvement. 😊🍓

If you're looking forward to the conference, maybe you could be our next conference organiser or marketing officer!

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The CILIP Library and Information History Group conference begins today!

Join us this evening for a panel examining works in progress relevant to growing libraries.

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It's happening! The CILIP Library and Information History online conference takes place this Thursday and Friday. There are some amazing papers being presented. Please come along 😀📚

Less than a week until our 2023 Library and Information history online conference 🥳

Join us to find out about projects examining Innerpeffray Library, LambethPalaceLibrary and many more!

Get your free ticket below:

Revolution, tourism and early printed books are just some of the themes covered at our 2023 conference.

Join us on the 29th and 30th June to discover ongoing projects examining library and information history.

Information and (free) tickets available below!

Finishing DPhil feels extra hard today. Please send happy thoughts and virtual hugs. I really could do with them right now 😣