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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/m00…. #1000YearsOfWonder BBC Radio 4 Diocese of Exeter Exeter City of Literature

Call for papers! ILA Facing the Future conference @ The Morrab Library . We would love to welcome you and help to share your stories about the wonderful world of Independent Libraries! independentlibraries.co.uk/annual-meeting

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.../🧵👇

We're #hiring: want to steer the Portico Library's transformational Reunited project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as our new Project Manager? Get to know the project and the role: theportico.org.uk/vacancies Deadline: Friday 1 March, 12 noon

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-imp…

#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.

Curious about the types of projects we fund? Check out our 'Past grants' page on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/past-grants/ Next grant deadline 📅 1 November

While we’re closed for summer maintenance works, our rare books librarian @girlinthe has been surveying some of the books in the Dorchester Library. 📚🧵

Happy #WorldOysterDay and #MolluscMonday🦪 Chromolithographs of Great Barrier Reef oysters in "The Great Barrier Reef of Australia" by William Saville-Kent, 1893.

VERY busy in St Davids Cathedral 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

A chance to see a special display of books from St Paul's Cathedral Library, alongside other activities.

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/contact/

Reading the Room is a new John Fell funded project University of Oxford 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-room-b… National Trust Research

“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.

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/library-t…

Registration is now open for Wells Cathedral 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-bubwi…

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-our…

History Day 2024 is a brilliant (and free!) opportunity to discover library, archive and museum collections from across the UK #HistDay24