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This account is no longer being updated. For your regular fix of rare and special books please follow our main account, @bodleianlibs
Oxford, UK
Joined February 2014
It's been a hoot, but we've the tough decision to stop updating this account while we focus on other stuff. We'll continue to post all our favourite things over on @bodleianlibs so head over there for #rarebooks #miniaturebooks and of course #CrazyArtistsBooksMadeOutOfFood
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Support these future readers!.
We would love to buy a book for each of the 500 children we have worked with this year to keep them reading - and smiling - through the summer holidays! Please support our new Crowdfunder and help us to #KeepOxonReading this summer!
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Our top candidate for 'books to eat first when the apocalypse finds you trapped in the Bodleian' is Dieet smakelijk - the world's only book made entirely from Sweet Potatoes 🍠🍠🍠 Thanks to Wouter Cornet for a great donation
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RT @bodleianlibs: The ambitious 1481 edition of Dante's La Comedia may have been the first fully illustrated edition of the poem. Join us….
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RT @MilleaNick: The latest @bodleianlibs Maps blog takes us to #Antarctica in the company of #ErnestShackleton's 1907-09 #Nimrod Expedition….
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RT @AshmoleanMuseum: Good morning to everyone, but especially to this tiny terracotta monkey in our Greece gallery
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You know that feeling when you think you know your own collection and then you find out there's a prospectus for #Ulysses downstairs that you had no idea you had AND it's freely available online to everyone in the UK? .That. Thanks #WorldBookDay.
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RT @bodleianlibs: Introducing ‘Voices from the Bodleian’ - a new blog series on LinkedIn!. Meet our staff members, and learn what makes the….
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RT @CourtauldRes: Ever wondered how the #ink for #medieval #manuscripts was made?. Tune into @sarajcharles brilliant lecture ‘An introducto….
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RT @JuliaWalworth: William Peraldus's super popular treatise on the vices has scarcely any evidence of readers in @MertonCollege MS 233. Ex….
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If you're an Oxford student and you collect books you could win yourself £600 by. collecting books. That's it. And best of all you'll get to buy some books for us too. C'mon. Show us what's on your shelves!.
Calling all @UniofOxford undergrads/postgrads!. You have just over two weeks to submit an entry for the Colin Franklin Prize. @bodleiancsb offer a £600 prize for a collection of books or other printed materials. Deadline: 19 March 2021.
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Today's the day! The Weston library is OPEN to university staff and students. Book a seat online:
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RT @bodleianlibs: 'Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover'. This free online workshop will explore the secrets that bookbindings….
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Browse our upcoming events and free exhibitions
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If you were waiting for permission (and really, why would you be?) @book_historia has mustered Alberto Manguel, Thomas Frognall Dibdin and Joseph William Zaehnsdorf to convince you it's OK to arrange your books by colour. So that's Wednesday afternoon sorted.
Images of rainbow bookshelves cheer some and disgust others. But why? I've written about the historical and social contexts of bookshelves organized by color, and why raging over them reeks of gatekeeping:
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RT @bodleianlibs: Announcing the Colin Franklin Prize 2021!. The Centre for the Study of the Book (@bodleiancsb) offers a prize to a @Uniof….
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