#RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her.
Katie Birkwood
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Really interesting questions and answers. And a reminder I need to take 'Standardizing Sex' off the shelf at work and actually read it!
*breaks out the steel pans and the rum* Maybe I'll look up how to make jerk chicken. #T20Sweep
Five layers: the earth, the heavens, the clock... Come to the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social lecture evening on 23 June to find out how this 16th century device works, and take home your own working replica! history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
Better still, we have the inimitable @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social giving the background on pre-modern interactive print: flaps to lift, dials to turn, all sorts of marvellous things. history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical, cultural and social significance: unesco.org.uk/news/five-ou...
Step into history and explore our Ancient Library on Saturday 4 July! Join us for free 30-minute journeys through the wonders of our treasured collection and delve into the stories behind the books with our knowledgeable Library Guides. Places limited, booking essential: https://ow.ly/m02M50Z9pLC
The Hereford Gospels online symposium is on 26 June. It's a free opportunity to hear about this remarkable manuscript from the experts. I'm also pleased to confirm that it will be recorded for those who may not be able to come in real time! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/herefo...
My 500 year history of disabled people's political activism is out now! Thanks to The Independent for making it their non-fiction book of the month! www.penguin.co.uk/books/455782...
#disabilityhistory
Katie Birkwood
For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
Katie Birkwood
Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical…
A ground-breaking history of modern Britain that puts the experiences of disabled people to the fore for the first time.
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disa...
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...
This is why I'm so angry about Reform banning Essex libraries putting Pride displays in their libraries. How very dare they stop people see themselves reflected in the library, allow people to see the whole world in the library. The library is political and it is important.
Hello everyone, over the next few hours I’ll be answering questions on r/AskHistorians about my book *Standardizing Sex* and the history of trans medicine!
@dhowlett1692.bsky.social
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Group 2
🏴 England – @tenisonpurple.bsky.social
🇮🇪 Ireland – @paulmdh.bsky.social
🇳🇿 New Zealand – @byekitty.bsky.social
🏴 Scotland – @cartivist.bsky.social
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – @rosamundi.bsky.social
🌴 West Indies – @girlinthe.bsky.social
Ketil Slagstad
Mary Burgess
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
