Durham Residential Research Library offers visiting fellowships to study the historic collections of Durham, including @durham_uni @BedesBooks and @UshawLibrary
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Only five days left to apply for Visiting Fellowships at
@ResearchDurham for the academic year 2020-2021! Deadline: 17 February 2020
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
8 Jun 2021
It's #MuseumsWeek & today's theme is Behind the Scenes, so here's a glimpse into what it takes to care for some of the more unusual items in our collections. Cleaning the cathedral's 17th century font canopy involves scaffolding & specialist equipment.šŖš§¹
#BehindTheScenesMW
8 Jun 2021
If you find keeping your home clean a bit of a pain, spare a thought for our conservators who will set to work giving our 12 meter tall, ornate oak font a spring clean this week. A condition assessment has been completed and now the font is surrounded by scaffolding for access.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
8 Jun 2021
First published in 1859, these extraordinarily beautiful prints of British seaweeds were created using a technique called ānature printingā, when a plant was pressed into a plate of soft lead.
#RareBooks #WorldOceansDay #WorldOceansDay2021
ALT Print of a seaweed using pink ink, with large semi-translucent leaves.
ALT Print of a seaweed with fine frond like leaves in dark purple ink.
ALT Print of a seaweed with fine needle shaped leaves in dark brown ink.
ALT Print of a seaweed with very fine frothy leaves in pink ink.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
28 May 2021
Whoop! Whoop!
Another manuscript added to the Durham Priory Library website.
Which makes it 220 manuscripts & over 90 THOUSAND images! šš·š„³
The new addition is MS B.III.8, a 14th century compendium of monastic rules.
durhampriory.ac.uk/list-of-dā¦
#IIIF #MedievalTwitter
ALT Screenshot of the Durham Priory Library image viewer showing the opening page of a medieval manuscript.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
20 May 2021
@Elizabethpowell on A Study of David Jones's 'Crucifixion' @CCSDham
#CatholicMuse #CatholicLiteracy (hopefully)
eventbrite.co.uk/e/elizabethā¦ @EventbriteUK
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On June 15 Dr. Shannen Dee Williams (@BlkNunHistorian) will deliver a talk titled The Real Sister Act: Confronting the Uneasy History of Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life in the United States. Another great event put on by @CCSDham! eventbrite.co.uk/e/shannen-dā¦
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
Registration for the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (@H_WRBI) research showcase is now open. The showcase will feature scholars from a range of different disciplines and will celebrate the latest research concerning women religious.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
š£ļø Did you see that we have paid student internship opportunities across our department throughout summer 2021?! If youāre currently @Durham_Uni student or are graduating this year, you're eligible to apply! The closing date is 1 June so donāt miss out! careers.dur.ac.uk/unauth?leaā¦
ALT Palace Green Library, Durham. A stone brick nineteenth century building with ornate windows, and posters for exhibition events outside.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
There are many accounts of visitors falling in love with Durham in our collectionsā¦ and then thereās this from Tobias Smollettās Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Pleased TripAdvisor didnāt exist in the 18th century. More stories of journeys to Durham here: stories.durham.ac.uk/journeyā¦
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
24 May 2021
History of the Book #CFP details now on our new web pages: duracuk-cms01-production.terā¦
#history #books
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
26 May 2021
Registration is now open for our next free Ushaw Lecture: Dr Shannen Dee Williams will be discussing "Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life in the US" on June 15th via Zoom! eventbrite.co.uk/e/shannen-dā¦ #nuntastic #catholicism
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#nuntastic announcement: registration for our #HWRBI2021 Research Showcase in partnership with @CCSDham, is now live at the following link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hwrbi-resā¦. For more info about this #nuntastic event, check out historyofwomenreligious.org/ā¦
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
We're delighted to offer a range of paid student internship opportunities across our department throughout summer 2021! If youāre currently a @durham_uni student or graduating this year, you're eligible to apply! careers.dur.ac.uk/unauth?leaā¦ @careersatdurham @dumuseums @PalaceGreenLib
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
20 May 2021
'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' by Abraham Ortelius was first published #OnThisDay in 1570. Considered to be the first modern European Atlas it was so successful 31 editions were published over the next 40 years. Hereās our 1584 edition.
#Cartography #Maps #RareBooks #OTD
ALT Hand-coloured engraving of the globe spread out to show all the continents as they were known to Europeans in 1570.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
18 May 2021
I was pleased to write a blog post for @LuxSterritt on the Canonesses' migration narrative, a manuscript that documents their history in the years of the Revolution in LiĆØge, and their subsequent evacuation and migration to England. #speccolls #histmonast
emen.hypotheses.org/1245
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
18 May 2021
Delighted to be back in the archives at @PalaceGreenLib looking at #nuntastic Poor Clare material relating to Capuchins! This manuscript is a late 19thC translation of a 17thC work by French Capuchin Rev'd Fr de Dreux, Master of Novices at Rue St Honore, Paris.
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
16 May 2021
The MA students' have created an #ObjectSpotlight series for social media. All the objects featured will be seen in 'Jericho: An Ancient City Revealed' launching online 10 June. Take a look at Matthew's favourite object from the Oriental Museum's collection in the next tweet. 1/2
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
12 May 2021
Fascinating topic for Durham's online History of the Book conference this autumn: 'Organizing & Disorganizing Knowledge'.
Call for papers from scholars working on premodern book cultures from anywhere across the globe.
dur.ac.uk/imems/events/confeā¦
#MedievalTwitter #GlobalMiddleAges
12 May 2021
#CFP 30 June 2021
History of the Book Conference 8th-9th Sept 2021, 17:00, Online
Organizing and Disorganizing Knowledge
Abstract max. 250 words
Info-dur.ac.uk/imems/events/confeā¦
#BookHistory #medieval #History
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
11 May 2021
Our PHd student @rhebamacha is talking about Curating in Colour: Investigating attitudes towards race and antiquity in 18th and 19th Century collecting culture - at the @NclAntiquaries Virtual Coffeehouse Seminar June 9thhttps://t.co/csyMobO3Cy?amp=1
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
12 May 2021
There's a great opportunity to join in a creative writing activity this weekend āļøāļøšš Learn something new in this free workshop!
#cosinslibrary #lovedurham #WednesdayMotivation #wednesdaywriting #writingtips @ThisisDurham #library
11 May 2021
Don't forget to sign up for our online creative writing workshop with the fabulous @lizmytton this Saturday at 10am UK-time: Folios and Sonnets @ace_thenorth @dulib @DurhamWHS @IMEMSDurham @PalaceGreenLib @PalatinateUK
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Durham Residential Research Library retweeted
12 May 2021
Edward Lear, poet & artist, was born #OnThisDay in 1812. Most famous for his poems, Lear was also a natural history illustrator, publishing England's first book on Parrots. Here's his Varied Lorikeet, reproduced in Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library. #RareBooks #OTD
ALT Hand-coloured engraving of a Varied Lorikeet, from an original illustration by Edward Lear.
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