Bringing together and supporting historic libraries

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Registration for our conference is now open - we hope to see you there! eventbrite.co.uk/e/securing-…
Our next conference will be at SOAS Library in London on Monday 4 November. The theme will be security in historic libraries. We'll release the programme and open registration soon - sign up to our mailing list for further announcements! historiclibrariesforum.com/c…
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History Day 2024 is a brilliant (and free!) opportunity to discover library, archive and museum collections from across the UK #HistDay24
With History Day 2024 right around the corner, History Day intern Katherine reflects on planning the event and what to look forward to at #HistDay24. Read the new blog at buff.ly/4hhx0j7 and keep signing up (for free!) to #HistDay24. What will you discover? #HistDay24
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Tickets for our hybrid conference at SOAS on security in historic libraries are selling well. Registration for in-person attendance closes on Monday 28 October - don't miss out! Online tickets also available. eventbrite.co.uk/e/securing-…
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Registration is now open for @WellsCathedral1 symposium "The making of a medieval library - books & reading, teaching & learning at Wells Cathedral in the Middle Ages", 27-28 October: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bishop-bu…
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Have you booked your place for Library Treasures: Unexpected Worlds on Thursday 24 October? To find more information and book your place, visit our website: herefordcathedral.org/news/l…
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Reading the Room is a new John Fell funded project @UniofOxford exploring what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, models of interpretation engagement in libraries & complicating understandings of heritage libraries. english.web.ox.ac.uk/reading… @ResearchNT
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus The colours are turning around Hawarden. When the sun shines in just the right way, the leaves light up like stained glass windows.
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Our next conference will be at SOAS Library in London on Monday 4 November. The theme will be security in historic libraries. We'll release the programme and open registration soon - sign up to our mailing list for further announcements! historiclibrariesforum.com/c…
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VERY busy in @StDavidsCath Library this afternoon. Lovely to share our Rare Books collection with visitors from #Italy #Germany #SouthAfrica #Cardiff #Llandaff & show visiting choir Ferrabosco Singers our Tomkins part books & so to #ChoralEvensong 6pm Clucas, Sumsion, Howells
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While we’re closed for summer maintenance works, our rare books librarian @girlinthe has been surveying some of the books in the Dorchester Library. 📚🧵
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Happy #WorldOysterDay and #MolluscMonday🦪 Chromolithographs of Great Barrier Reef oysters in "The Great Barrier Reef of Australia" by William Saville-Kent, 1893.
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A chance to see a special display of books from St Paul's Cathedral Library, alongside other activities.
Book now for our Summer Late on 8th Aug, with spotlight songs from @stpaulschoir's Vicars Choral, talks, expert craft demos, art, and Christian mindfulness. Experience our famous Whispering Gallery and Geometric Staircase in the evening, too! Book here: stpauls.co.uk/whats-on/summe…
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#DiwrnodRhyngwladolMenywod #InternationalWomensDay Coloured plates by Augusta Withers "Flower Painter in Ordinary" to Queen Adelaide & Queen Victoria, in "The Botanist" by Maund & Henslow 1878. Augusta's name does not appear on the publication. Displayed 2pm-4pm in our Library.
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This Saturday! Free drop-in event! Join us for 'Bound to Impress: Creativity and the Book', showcasing the skills of printers, book-binders and designers down the centuries. 📅Sat 2 March ⏰10.30am-1pm #EarlyPrintedBooks eventbrite.co.uk/e/bound-to-…
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That's more of the scaffolding now down this week from Dunblane's historic Leighton Lubrary, revealing more of the marvellous restoration work which has been going on over the past year. Thanks to Tom Astbury for these photographs.../🧵👇
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We're #hiring: want to steer the Portico Library's transformational Reunited project supported by @HeritageFundUK as our new Project Manager? Get to know the project and the role: theportico.org.uk/vacancies Deadline: Friday 1 March, 12 noon
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Call for papers! @IndieLibraries Facing the Future conference @ @morrablibrary . We would love to welcome you and help to share your stories about the wonderful world of Independent Libraries! independentlibraries.co.uk/a…
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Tune in to BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 23 January at 1:45pm to listen to Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes, featuring The Exeter Book from his visit to the #ExeterCathedral Library and Archives. Listen at bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vm4…. #1000YearsOfWonder @BBCRadio4 @CofEDevon @ExeterCityofLit
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