#QueerBibliography, histories of reading, children's books, materiality, browsing, etc.
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13 Jun 2024
It’s here! The Papers of the @BibSocAmer special issue on #QueerBibliography I co-edited with @malcolmjnoble is now out!
journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pb…
Featuring Michael Bronski on DIY publishing after Stonewall, @ceyingst on pseudonymous publication and trans possibility 1/4
ALT 'FagRag' in pink, then 'Gay Male Newspaper' and a parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930). Cover of Fag Rag’s first issue, June 1971. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Collection, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries, LG MS 007, 14, 276, https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fagrag/1.
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10 Apr 2024
Forty years ago, @gaystheword was reeling from raids by HM Customs & Excise. You might've heard of 'Operation Tiger', but probably know less about the books accused of being 'indecent or obscene'. Our new exhibition @SenateHouseLib @SASNews reveals more –
london.ac.uk/about/services/…
ALT Black-and-white photo of Gay's the Word shopfront by Robert Workman, courtesy of the Robert Workman Archive, Bishopsgate Institute. Overlaid with pink and black circle reading SEIZED BOOKS! LGBTQ books and censorship in 1980s Britain.
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Also visited our little Seized Books! display @SenateHouseLib which is on until the end of April. It's free!
(See london.ac.uk/seized-books for more or browse here: omeka.senatehouselibrary.ac.…)
ALT Cartoon from Christopher Street magazine, it's about pool-playing lesbians
ALT Display case showing New York Native newspaper, a Phil Andros novel with Tom of Finland cover and exhibition info
ALT Display case showing You Are the Rain by R.R. Knudson and Sandra Scoppettone's Happy Endings are All Alike
ALT Display cases for Seized Books! LGBTQ books and censorship in 1980s Britain at Senate House Library until the end of April
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A couple of new blog posts up on the Seized Books! site. Maybe you remember some of our lesser-known and harder-to-research titles? We've spotlit five mystery books here london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…
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Pun in the title of this post all my own work btw
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And, six months (and counting) on from our launch, we have a reflective round-up post on working together across disciplines and institutions on this project and exhibition. Includes some exciting news about Seized Books! The Musical (yes!) london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…
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A couple of new blog posts up on the Seized Books! site. Maybe you remember some of our lesser-known and harder-to-research titles? We've spotlit five mystery books here london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…
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And, six months (and counting) on from our launch, we have a reflective round-up post on working together across disciplines and institutions on this project and exhibition. Includes some exciting news about Seized Books! The Musical (yes!) london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…
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Sarah Pyke retweeted
24 Oct 2024
My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while displaying quotations from the Library's statement of values
17 Oct 2024
Roughly 25 Harvard professors conducted a silent study-in at Widener Library on Wednesday to protest the library’s decision to temporarily ban pro-Palestine students who held a similar demonstration last month.
@tillyrobin and @neilhshah15 report.
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19 Oct 2024
Palestinians being rounded up and executed by Israel as the world watches on.
I don’t ever want to hear the words human rights and international law mentioned again. They don’t exist.
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18 Oct 2024
Happy to announce something exciting that we’ve been working on for a while. The Long Wave, a weekly newsletter on Black life and culture around the world, is launching on 30 Oct. Written by me and edited by the mega talented @jaseokundaye. Sign up here! theguardian.com/global/2024/…
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18 Oct 2024
🚨🚨🚨🚨
WE DID IT!
After workers of Piraeus all night blocked the #israel container the ship "Marla BULL" departed WITHOUT the weapons
The people can win!
From Greece
From the world
#Palestine is not alone!
MURDERERS OUT FROM THE PORT!
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14 Oct 2024
Israel’s military offensive and siege pose an existential threat to Palestinians in Gaza.
The UK Government must end its complicity in Israel’s war on Palestinians and immediately halt ALL arms transfers to Israel.
Take action now: map.org.uk/campaigns/email-y…
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14 Oct 2024
If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?
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10 Oct 2024
We're looking for a @Cambridge_Uni student to join our board of trustees 👀
Passionate about the Botanic Garden's future? Apply to join our Syndicate alongside @Beverley_CUBG & @fionacreynolds
Please share! More info: bit.ly/CUBGSyndicate
@plantsci @CropSciCentre @slcuplants
ALT A group of young people cross the main lawn
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10 Oct 2024
Delighted to announce the relaunch of Print Exchanges and our upcoming Critical Bibliography event on 13th November! Come along to watch our illustrious panellists, and join a supportive, cross-period network of colleagues working on print printexchanges.wordpress.com…
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3 Oct 2024
A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
“And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
(Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
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27 Sep 2024
“Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur”
ALT Maggie Smith in the role of Jean Brodie, in the film adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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1 Aug 2022
'August, the sinister pause in the year...' – Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets (1936)
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31 Jul 2024
Design for a Library. Eiríkr Magnússon’s
endlessly expandable spiral design for a new @theUL, 1885 (never built!). Magnússon was Under Librarian from 1871-1909. He also taught Icelandic to William Morris. #LibraryHistory
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