Librarian, ex-Twitter user (not X)! Find me on Bluesky (@bekkhilde.bsky.social)
Joined February 2013
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23 Nov 2024
Like many of us, I'm ditching this dystopian hellscape in favour of Bluesky. Find me at: bsky.app/profile/bekkhilde.b…
It'll mostly be photos of fun books, broadsides etc from the library.
For anything band-related, we're on Insta:
instagram.com/cruel_mother/
See you on the other side!
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7 Aug 2025
Hey @MetroUK where's the cryptic crossword?! Conspicuously absent from the puzzles section in today's paper! Bring it back! 😩 #crypticcrossword #metrouk #metropuzzles #metronews #wordgames
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Becky L retweeted
30 May 2024
If I was a metal band this would be the name of my live album
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21 May 2024
Still plenty of time to apply to join our small and friendly library team here @SocAntiquaries 📚 Great for someone wanting to work with historical collections!
#lisjobs #libraryjobs #artsjobs #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #librarianship
9 May 2024
The Society of Antiquaries is seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian to contribute to the provision of a high-quality library service for Fellows, Affiliate members, SCONUL users, and external researchers #LISJobs #libraries @ciliplndn @CILIPRareBooks informationprofessionaljobs.…
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19 May 2024
At a restaurant in Camden and the group next to us are celebrating a birthday. The waiter just brought out a Colin the Caterpillar cake with a tombstone in it. We were absolutely howling. Happy 65th 💀😅
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9 May 2024
📢We're recruiting a full-time, permanent member of the @SocAntiquaries library team! A great opportunity for an early-career librarian to work with a fabulous collection. Please help spread the word! 👇 #libraryjobs #lisjobs #rarebooks #specialcollections informationprofessionaljobs.…
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5 May 2024
*chefs kiss*
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22 Apr 2024
It's #EarthDay2024 so here's some appropriate listening... cruelmother.bandcamp.com/alb…
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Becky L retweeted
14 Apr 2024
Desperately sad news.
Museums are treasure houses of objects and knowledge, founts of inspiration for future generations, places of wonder - and research. Places that invite us to see ourselves in a deep, wide context.
Our society and culture is impoverished if we lose them.
Having spent many hours behind the scenes in this one, poring over skeletal collections at National Museum Wales, working with archaeologists there, my heart is riven by this sad news.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj7m…
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8 Apr 2024
Blown away by such a wonderful review for our debut @CruelMotherBand EP 🥹
8 Apr 2024
Review | @CruelMotherBand – Cut Down For The Earth by @dominichemy. "The marriage of old traditional English murder ballads with the funereal despair of doom metal brings such joy in its fresh perspective." echoesanddust.com/2024/04/cr…
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8 Apr 2024
I thought this was a parody (cf. Mariella Dudley-Terfington). It is not a parody.
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20 Mar 2024
Thanks to @toxic1metal for this feature on @CruelMotherBand! Our debut EP is out in less than a month 🎻🍻 #folkdoom #doommetal #tradfolk #Englishfolk #broadsides #ballads #folkmetal #londonmetalcoalition
20 Mar 2024
London-based folk doom band, Cruel Mother, to release debut EP, Cut Down for the Earth! Get the details right here: toxicmetalzine.com/post/lond…
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8 Mar 2024
BEST NEWS EVER! @SocAntiquaries future (and the whole of the @BurlingtonHub learned socs) is secured! 🎉📚 A long time coming but now we can be certain our amazing #library and #collections will be preserved and continue to be made available for research 🙌
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7 Mar 2024
Today I'm cataloguing this 1685 book w/ embossed covers and found out about "Dutch gilt" #bindings c.1700 (the book is Dutch but the binding is a misnomer!)
Thanks to our neighbours @LinneanSociety I should add! Always great to be learning new things 😊 linnean.org/news/2022/07/01/…
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6 Mar 2024
So thrilled when I remembered I had seen this IRL in our own library! And, of course, now I also need this shirt...
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28 Feb 2024
We (@CruelMotherBand) bring our murder ballads to The Ship in Croydon tomorrow, supporting two amazing bands! There are a few tickets remaining at a mere £5, which can be bought in advance by DMing The Ship on the Other Place: facebook.com/theshipcroydon
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16 Feb 2024
Trio of matching #GreenLung-ers up in Jorvik for some Viking festival frivolity! @greenlungband
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14 Feb 2024
Can anyone help me with the binding description for these boards? They're furry, like the kind you get on 18th-century minute books, but I'm not sure if this has a special name? I haven't come across it on printed books very often. #rarebooks #binding #speccols
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