A little celebration of libraries in our window today! We are lucky to have the @natlibscot.bsky.social & over 30 public libraries, making Edinburgh the first UNESCO City of Literature.
Check out @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social & @cilipscotland.bsky.social for more on why libraries matter.
Coming up this week!
The new Uniformpamphlets series and Biblioteka Art Book Fair at The Warburg Institute next Friday and Saturday.
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Rare Book School
McNaughtan's Bookshop
Uniformbooks
Join us on 10 June for the 2026 Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture, "Women's Libraries & Their Afterlives" by Elizabeth Canning, at 5:30 p.m. ET in UVA’s Special Collections Auditorium or via Zoom.
Details: rarebookschool.org/events/elizabeth-canning-rendell-lecture
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
Women’s book collections appear in a wide range of forms: as catalogued libraries; as groups of surviving books linked by inscription and family use; or as volumes dispersed but still …
Sit back for a printmaking story time with Holly EJ Black who dives into one of the first ever artistic copyright cases, which unfolded in Venice between superstar printmaker Albrecht Dürer and the young upstart Marcantonio Raimondi…
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Monday 13 July 6.30pm-9pm (doors open 6pm) for 'BLAKE, GINSBERG & “AH! SUNFLOWER”: FILM, MUSIC & CONVERSATION'.
FREE (£5 admin fee including a FREE copy of 'AH!MERICA' by ISOLARII). BOOKING ESSENTIAL: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/film-...
One of the nicest parts of organising BABE is planning who goes where, might like to be next to each other, what new connections people might make with their neighbours… The sketch here (not to scale or showing everyone) is a way to match them together for 2 days:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/
A one-day class with visiting artist Jeff Rathermel before BABE. Discover the meditative art of suminagashi (floating ink) in this hands-on workshop. Learn how to create beautiful marbled patterns on water and transfer them onto paper using simple, accessible techniques.
cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/courses/cpd/
Video
As Kabe Wilson prepares to unveil his Honourmastic portrait of #LaurenceSterne in Cambridge tomorrow panoramajournal.org/event/global... we see him here preparing his #exhibition at Shandy Hall - on now! laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/
Four years
#collage #papercollage #handcut #cdbooklet #linernotes
Sarah Bodman
Sarah Bodman
Sarah Bodman
The Laurence Sterne Trust
Yale University Press London 📖
Swedenborg House
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