We also had a lovely cooking class to make pasta and tiramisu from scratch! 👩‍🍳🍝

An epic #churchcrawl adventure to visit Florence Cathedral and climb Giotto’s campanile! 🔔🎉

So great to make a #churchcrawl stop at Santa Maria Novella in Florence! ⛪️🎨

A brilliant #churchcrawl visit to Florence’s Santa Croce and its Giotto cycle! ⛪️🎨

It was amazing to see Michelangelo’s David in the “flesh” at the Galleria dell’Accademia with other treasures! 🎨

Just back from a fantastic girls’ art and aperol trip to Firenze! So wonderful to see so many favourite works in person at the Uffizi Gallery 🎨🇮🇹🎉

A fun #churchcrawl to Bangor Cathedral today, thank you to Revd Broadbent for showing the AMARC crew the amazing medieval tiles! 🔔🎨

A fantastic @amarc.bsky.social Summer Meeting today on Welsh estate records hosted by @ystadaucymru.bsky.social and the @bangoruniversity.bsky.social archive collections team! 📜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎉

I’m on a boat! Excited to head to Wales for our @amarc.bsky.social Summer Meeting at Bangor University, and here’s an image of Noah’s Ark from the Book of Ballymote to celebrate, @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 23 P 12, f. i-v 🚢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎉

Friday Fun at @rialibrary.bsky.social checking out the watermarks in our 1482 edition of Euclid’s Elementa! This endleaf is packed with user notes and more soon on its provenance 📖💡🎉

Spotted a fun printer’s device of an elephant and castle as well as a collation register today in a 1565 edition of Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi di Amore printed by Giorgio Cavalli of Venice! 🐘🏰📖

And a fun #churchcrawl next door to Drumcliffe and the grave of W.B. Yeats with Elmo!

A great visit to Lissadell House today, the childhood home of Countess Markievicz and her sister Eva Gore-Booth! 📖🎨

New toy! Got a fun light sheet to experiment on the paper and watermarks of our @rialibrary.bsky.social incunables and early printed pamphlets! 📖💡

Found the fantastic bookplate of Bulkeley Bandinel, the Bodley’s Librarian @bodleian.ox.ac.uk between 1813-1860 in an English Civil War pamphlet now in the Haliday collection of @rialibrary.bsky.social! 📖

My new manuscript tape measure has arrived! 😂🦊📏

Excited to see the Werwulf trailer today and all things medieval movie! The Doom painting looks like a fun version of the Chaldon mural! 🐺😈🔥

Hebrew Palaeography Question! Could anyone please help translate the inscription below, from the end leaves of a Latin Pocket Bible? The Latin inscription added afterwards shows the book was also owned by a Dominican friar, and the book is continental but was later in Oxford! 📖🔎

Three amazing presentations today by the @memsunikent.bsky.social crew Jemima Bennett, Anna-Nadine Pike and Kate McCaffrey for the 2026 @rebpaf.bsky.social ‘Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ conference in Dublin! 📖👏🎉

A fantastic tour of @chethamslibrary.bsky.social today on a research trip to Manchester! 📖🎉

Back at work @rialibrary.bsky.social after my trip to see the amazing Stowe Missal (MS D ii 3) out as our manuscript of the week for library visitors! 🤗📜

Excited to see my piece with Elena Lolli now out in the Bodleian Library Record! We identified erasures in an early 14th-century Italian book of surgery (now @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social MS. Laud Misc. 651) as records of medieval Jewish pawnbrokers in Bologna, using UV images by Andrew Honey! 📜🎉

We had so much fun on our @rarebookschool.bsky.social Evidence in Handpress-Era Books course that my classmate and I got matching tattoo souvenirs from the 1630 edition of Robert Greene’s The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay printed by Elizabeth Allde in London! 📖🎉

Now you see him, now you don’t! Having fun learning how to compare editions and their printings on our amazing @rarebookschool.bsky.social Evidence in Handpress-Era Books course at the HRC! 📖🔎

Excited to be in Austin, TX to attend @rarebookschool.bsky.social next week at the Harry Ransom Center! Happy for any tips on sightseeing and places to eat! 🐮📖

Come to North Carolina to see family, stay to collect 19th-century prints of the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! 😂📖🎉

B&W shots of Turin and Susa taken on my Nikon FM2n film camera! 🇮🇹📸

Catch those rays or they’ll catch you! Fantastic depictions of the sun in the mystical Rothschild Canticles, produced c. 1300 in Flanders or the Rhineland, now Yale, Beinecke MS 404, fols. 64r and 44r ☀️

Dead Man’s Bones! Happy #InternationalGothDay (and a fun Ryan Gosling reference) to those who celebrate from this amazing illustration of a cadaver tomb from the ‘Disputation Between the Body and Worms’ (c. 1460-70), now @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 37049, f. 32v ☠️🪱🖤

Plus a fantastic day trip to the historic town of Susa at the foot of the Alps! 🗻