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There's now a petition asking for an independent review of how LSE handles sexual misconduct allegations. This in the wake of the massive failures revealed by the Beaver article (thebeaverlse.co.uk/my-feelings-di…). You can review the petition here: change.org/p/demand-an-in…

#OTD in 1066, King Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings. From our archives, a 14th century account of the battle: "[Harold] faught wiþ þe Duk and w(t) his peple, but [he] and his men were descomfitede and him self was þere slayn, and þis bataile was ended"

#OTD in 1815, Napoleon arrived at the island of St Helena, roughly 7,000km from France, where he would spend the rest of his life in exile. This curio from our Isabella Banks collection is a piece of the willow tree which grew over Napoleon's grave.

Imaging Manager Jamie Robinson has been searching through a collection of rather huge glass plate negatives, autotype plates measuring 595mm x 495mm were produced in the late 1890’s to create facsimiles of world maps produced between 1546 and 1553! shorturl.at/56u1J

The Forme of Cury is a 14th century recipe book created for the Royal Household of Richard II. On #WorldPastaDay how about trying this recipe for medieval macaroni cheese (makerouns), translated in comments? Discover our entire copy luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s… (1/3)

Digitising the St John Fragment. While the Collection Care team at the Rylands have been reglazing Greek P 457 we thought it the perfect opportunity to digitise it again but this time free of its glazing.

We have just published thirty important Buddhist manuscripts on #ManchesterDigitalCollections! Most of these texts relate to the Theravada canon and were written on palm leaves between the 17th and the 19th century. Click here to browse: bit.ly/4gQbm5t #Buddhism

Exciting things #imaging #heritagescience happening John Rylands Research Institute and Library this week with amazing contributors and guests... Stay tuned!! National Heritage Science Forum UK UoM Humanities School of Arts, Languages and Culture Rachel Winchcombe #fredschurink @TonyFourtoes

👉🏿new The Huntington Library Quarterly: An Early Modern Studies Journal’s #CfP CfP 'Early/Modern Connections': interventions that explicitly link original early modern research to public humanities & the public interest! pennpress.org/journals/journ… Royal Historical Society American Historical Association

We celebrate an exceptionally interdisciplinary conservation project John Rylands Research Institute and Library Massive thanks to our stellar Rylands experts Heather Garner, Zoë Lanceley, Elisabeth Carr ACR, Jamie Robinson & #Imaging colleagues, Zsófi Buda & Andrew Beeby & Richard Gameson #teampigment

Deeply humbled to see In-Between Textiles shortlisted for the Textile Society RL Shep Memorial Book Award & Dress Historians Book of the Year Award! Massive thanks! 👉🏿shorturl.at/V7I9z Beatriz Marín-Aguilera Amsterdam Univ Press Erika Gaffney | erikagaffney.bsky.social The Leverhulme Trust School of Arts, Languages and Culture Churchill College St John's College, Cambridge

Shortlisted for a second award! A bit of good news in these difficult times… Many thanks again to all the contributors and funders without whom the book wouldn’t have been possible 💛

Super congratulations to Stefan Hanß & Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, whose book "In Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters" is shortlisted for the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award of the Textile Society of America! sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion… @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Call out for JRRI fellowships - Wesley & Newberry library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/resear…

Opening of the International Conference “Indigenous Worlds” with Tupinambá, Wapichana, Potiguara, Tarairiú (today’s Brazil) & Mochica (today’s Peru). One of the first meetings of historians & Indigenous ppl on equal footing in Europe. Way forward!! 🙌 Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences Agata Bloch

Thank you so much, Sasha!

📚 November is #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth! This year’s theme, Seeds of Change, highlights how small actions lead to big impact. 🌱 Check out our recommended reading list to learn more and start meaningful conversations. Reserve titles via Manchester Libraries.

Join us tomorrow!

My Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology Mediterranean microhistory of the Salvago dragomans & their experiences in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, 1550-1650, is now published also as PAPERBACK for only £39.99! (with Black Friday madness included it costs even only £29.99!) 👉🏿t.ly/6ljuO

Really delighted to see our (with Umberto Veronesi) 'The Lute of Wisdom: Alchemy, the Body, and Medicine in the Material Renaissance' in such great company in the 40th birthday edition of Nuncius!