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Success! The Bodleian Libraries' 'We Are Our History' project won at the 2024 Vice-Chancellor Awards yesterday! Three outstanding Bodleian projects (including a partnership with @HSMOxford ) were finalists for this year’s Awards.

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Happy New Year! This is Queen Elizabeth's Geneva Bible (1583) It was presented to Queen Elizabeth I of England by the printer Christopher Barker on New Year's Day, 1584.

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We really certainly assuredly definitely decidedly honestly truly deeply surely awfully terribly frightfully eminently remarkably positively heartily extraordinarily immensely downright love looking through the many Thesauruses in our collections.

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Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England. They were later disbound, and now exist as single sheets, which we have digitized for your online perusal.

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Could the Bodleian Library become bookless in the future? @UniofOxford @bodleianlibs #library

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The BBC and Netflix: Our new Watership Down contains intense scenes of rabbit violence and death. Medieval manuscripts: hold my spear.

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It's another beautiful day! Why not spend all of it indoors. In our libraries. In the dark.

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Happy 419th birthday to us! 🎂 We attribute our longevity to voracious reading - and pilchards. Feel free to send cake our way today. (No candles though please - we really don't want to have to build up our collections again from scratch.)

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Kicking off #WorldBookDay with our smallest, largest, longest and rarest. This is the 'German ABC' published in 1971. At just 3x2.5 mm it was once the smallest book in the world. It is NOT the smallest in our collection.

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Today we turn 420! 🎉 A good excuse for a birthday stroll up to the roof of the Radcliffe Camera.

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How it started: How it’s going:

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Over 13 million items, every last one of them ready to ignite sparks of joy.

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It has been 50 years since #Apollo11 set off on its mission to take mankind onto the surface of the moon for the first time in history. Humanity's lunar love affair goes back much further than that, of course. Here, for example, is a 14th century lunar volvelle.

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#TwitterXtinct ? To mark the rebranding of this site, we thought we'd share a few X's from our #AlphabetsAlive exhibition! In 'An Alphabet' (Marlborough, 1985) by E.N. Ellis, 26 wood-engravings include an X with - perhaps aptly - a famously extinct bird.

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Duke Humfrey's library gets rather dark when all of the readers have gone home. This is what it looks like when only our Graduate Trainees and a few ghosts remain. #darkhumfreys #BODgrads

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Twelve consecutive verso pages of MS. Douce 62 feature the same two dogs. We wondered how these pages might work as a flip book. What we've ended up with is the closest thing we know of to 13th century animation.

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About a millennium ago, someone in Cairo compiled a beautifully illustrated book that would take its readers on a journey from planet Earth to the depths of the cosmos. @BodPublishing have just released a book about that book. This thread takes a look at both.

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Libraries, if he - undertakes to remove books from the library - marks, defaces and injures volumes or objects - brings fire into the library, kindles a flame or smokes - doesn't obey your rules He's not your reader. Don't let him in. You'll have to kick him out again.

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Lots happening over the weekend, so we didn't want to make a big fuss - but we turned 418 years old yesterday. Thank you to everyone for your kind birthday wishes! We still feel sprightly as ever, and hungry to learn. Please help yourselves to a slice. 🕯️

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Will you still love us if we don’t have a blue tick? Like many, we’re keenly following emerging developments from Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter, and the news that accounts may need to pay monthly to be verified. As a library, we have our own thoughts.

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When the Bodley's Librarian proposed Frances Underhill as the first permanent female librarian in 1910, some objected that women could not climb ladders in reading rooms. They have been on ladders pushing the glass ceiling ever since. #InternationalWomensDay

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Now you're just showing off.

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We hold 4.5 million maps and views, including 800,000 Ordnance Survey sheets, 335,000 Admiralty sea charts, 130 globes and 1,500 rolled maps

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OK, NOW it's Christmas.

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Situations vacant.

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By age 35 you should have completed your westward additions, adding Convocation House, Chancellor's Court and Selden End onto your original 1602 architecture.

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"The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous...

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Magnolia magnificence

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It's #WorldTattooDay , so let's take a look at the tats on some of our ink-redible Bodleian colleagues! Medieval project cataloguer Dr Alison Ray @liber_ray has this fiery phoenix on the pyre. Here it is alongside 13th c. Bestiary MS. Bodl. 764, f. 70r

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Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797. Here you can see how William Godwin recorded the birth of his daughter in his journal, now held in our collections [Abinger papers, Dep. e. 203, fols. 25v-26r].

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King Henry VIII has annotated this 1537 Bishops' book (for the English Reformation). 10th commandment: “Thou shalt not desire thy neighbours house, his wife, his seruaunt, his mayde, his oxe, his asse, ne any other thynge that is his.” Henry: “wrongfully or unjustly”

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We've fallen foul of Tumblr's new anti-smut bots. This video was flagged by their system. It's clearly a rather over-imaginative system with an eye for (unintended) visual metaphor and subtext.

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A magnificent magnolia tree blooming beside Radcliffe Square this morning

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We were delighted to host Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall today! The Duchess enjoyed a guided tour of our Melancholy #ANewAnatomy exhibition, viewed several of our treasures and met students and library staff. @ClarenceHouse

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#NationalBlackCatDay (Bestiary, 13th c.)

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It's Friday night at the @bodleianlibs and we're feeling it.

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J.R.R. #Tolkien was born #OnThisDay in 1892. We recently acquired his rare annotated map of Middle-earth:

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Nice weather for books.

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Brrr... Almost tempted to allow fires in the libraries this morning. Cycle safely; wrap up warm!

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We are aware of the dinosaur loose in Weston Library. Please bear with us as we page @prattprattpratt for help.

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The first translation of Pliny the Elder’s 'Natural History' into Italian was published by the Strozzi family of Florence in 1476. It's not only utterly, utterly beautiful – it had a political purpose.🧵

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Today is our 415th birthday and we feel GREAT. This portrait is of Thomas James, Bodley's first librarian. #BODBirthday

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Today is the feast day of St Catherine, patroness of libraries and librarians.

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We have digitised 112 original, 19th century photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron for your online perusal.

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The Faerie Queene is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser that pleased Elizabeth I so much that she awarded Spenser a lifelong pension of £50 per year. Here's a little thread about it.

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This one goes out to all the academics who can't write their papers because their cat keeps staring at them.

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When I said 'take my heart', I meant it figuratively. #HappyValentinesDay

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The incomparable Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797. Pages from Shelley's handwritten manuscript of Frankenstein can be visited in our #WomenWhoDared exhibition in the Weston Library, while every page has been digitized for your perusal online.

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We were frankly baffled by several references to a certain popular plant in the comments of our 'Happy 420' birthday posts. Now we've looked it up and we feel quite square.

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Starry, starry night... We just HAD to share this image of the Radcliffe Camera by University of Oxford DPhil student and night-time photographer Sarah Savić Kallesø! Sarah says: "This image is a composite of 267 images, each with about 4 seconds of exposure, for a total 1/2

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It's #NationalReadABookDay . Reply with the name of a book you have enjoyed - then check the replies and make some recommendations to other Twitter users based upon the books they like. If we do this together we should be able to share lots of great suggestions.

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In the last couple of hours, 13,500 revellers have been celebrating May Morning on the streets of Oxford. For heavy sleepers, the otherwise detained and distant onlookers, here's a little snippet of what happened right on our doorstep.

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That’s a man dressed as a tree by the way #MayMorning #Oxford

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We have a winner. Here's the victor on this #SuperbOwlSunday

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"Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing" - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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No, *you* put #WorldTurtleDay in your calendar five months ago just because you love this image from the Douce Pliny [Arch. G b.6] so much.

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Did you know that when Batgirl takes off her cape and cowl, she's Barbara Gordon, librarian and PhD in library science?

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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth has closed its doors for the final time. In total, we welcomed over 138,000 visitors across five wonderful months. That's getting on for one ticket booked for every one thousand copies of The Lord of the Rings ever sold. Which is a *lot* of people.

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This fox certainly has his own interpretation of #NationalBirdDay . He comes from MS. Ashmole 1504, The Tudor Pattern Book.

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William Morris, who died on 3 October 1896, created many beautiful books. This is his handcrafted manuscript, complete with illuminations and wonderful initials, of the Odes of Horace.

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Geoffrey Chaucer may have died 617 years ago today but he still knows how to compose a most librarye tweet.

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Libraryes are awesome so ynstead of sayinge 'awesome' saye 'librarye.' That ys a librarye film. We had a librarye partye. Thou art librarye.

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It's our birthday, so we'd like to give YOU a gift: a set of 4 tour tickets. Winners will visit the Divinity School, Convocation House, Chancellor's Court and Duke Humfrey's medieval library. To enter, tell us why you'd like to visit. Be honest and use #BODbirthday in your tweet.

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Volvelles are rotating discs of (usually) paper or card, attached to a page, which can be adjusted to make measurements or calculations. Many are found in astronomical works, such as this wonderful copy of Peter Apianus' Astronomicum Caesareum. #BookSquashing

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An 11 year-old Princess Elizabeth gave this to her stepmother, Katherine Parr, in 1544. The future Queen translated a French meditational poem into English prose, and wrote it out in her own fine hand. It's thought she embroidered the binding too. #MothersDayGifts #NoPressure

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For #NationalPoetryDay , let's unravel a short thread that starts and ends with the earliest English poet still known by name. This is Caedmon, who flourished in AD 670, and his Hymn is quoted here, on a flap attached to the margin of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica.

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Waking up the Gladstone Link, an underground library that connects the Old Bodleian with the Radcliffe Camera. #LibraryShelfieDay

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We are absolutely delighted that Bodley's Librarian, @richove , has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He received his #OBE yesterday from the Duke of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal for his services to libraries and archives.

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We have digitized our copy of The Shāhnāmah of Ibrāhīm Sulṭān, a beautifully illustrated, 60,000-verse poem that recounts an epic history of Greater Persia, from mythical beginnings until the 7th century.

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Books boiled down to their punctuation reveal a lot about their authors. From @neuroecology

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If you’re coming in to study in the Upper Radcliffe Camera reading room, you’ll find new, lovely, comfortable chairs!

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The 5,000th visitor to Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth has entered the exhibition. We could very well have set off some fireworks but, you know, 'no kindling of flames' and so on. #BODTolkien

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Our Imaging services team recently digitized this bible - 'covered with crymson vellat alouer embradered wythe venys golde and seade perle'. Printer Christopher Barker presented it to Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Day, 1584. He received 11 1/8 ounces of gilt plate for the gift!

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We'll make you an offer you can't refuse.

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The ivory panel set in the binding of the Latin Gospel Lectionary MS. Douce 176 is known as the Douce Ivory. It dates back to the 9th century court of Charlemagne, and was made for the nunnery of Chelles where Charlemagne's sister Gisela was abbess. Let's look at some details...

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{\__/} {\__/} How many times ( • _ •) (• _ • ) - do we have to / > 🔥 / 📕< \ tell you?

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Does anyone have one of these knocking around that we could take off your hands? Ideally with a KeepCup holder.

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We are excited to announce a new collaboration with the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. This digitization project will ensure more than 600 western medieval manuscripts from both libraries' remarkable collections are made freely available online.

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All readers admitted to the Bodleian must swear Thomas Bodley's oath.

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Our Front of House Supervisor, Lucy, took these gorgeous snaps of the Christmas tree in the Old Bodleian Quad. Please do drop by and see it/smell it!

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We're delighted that our Tolkien Archivist Catherine McIlwaine has been awarded for Outstanding Contribution and her amazing exhibition catalogue for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth named Best Book in the @TolkienSociety awards. What a eucatastrophe!

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Queen Elizabeth I was crowned on 15 January 1559. Some years before, we believe, this binding was sewn by the young Princess Elizabeth as a New Year's gift for her stepmother, Katherine Parr.

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This is Sarasvati, goddess of knowledge, literature, learning, music, art and wisdom. She is here depicted in a Kalighat painting from 1875, produced originally as a souvenir for Hindu pilgrims visiting the temple of Kali. [MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 21]

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We’ve lost our tick but we still have this flea

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It's 1665. You see what a flea looks like for the very first time. How would you react?

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Bugs Bunny made his big screen debut in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare on 27 July 1940. Bugs has auspicious ancestors, of course, with just a few examples in this illustration from around 1400 and the Romance of Alexander [MS. Bodl. 264]. #wascally

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When @Ben_Mountford ordered a book from the @bodleianlibs stacks in 2009, we quickly cancelled his request. Why? Here's the note that Ben was sent in order to explain.

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Looking through MS. Lat. liturg. f. 3 online, we spotted a squirrel. He's not really on the phone - that's a chain.

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This #SocialMediaDay , we strongly encourage you to take a break from social media. Go and, I dunno, read a book or something.

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The Radcliffe Camera reveals its shimmering, magical self in reflection. Photo by Hugh Warwick:

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BREAKING NEWS: 'Incredible' discovery of defaced First Folio at the Bodleian Libraries reveals founder Thomas Bodley's utter contempt for William Shakespeare

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"I have explored different ways of grinding gold to try and recreate how the craftsmen of this period might have prepared their golden pigments." A short extract from our third 'Persian Arts of the Book' film. Enjoy all five films in full here:

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Plans are afoot with @T3D2019 for a spectacular exhibition at the @bodleianlibs in 2019. They made this gif from 40 of the plates from the spectacular lunar atlas, Hevelius' Selenographia.

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Tolkien started inventing languages when he was a young boy. He said that inventing languages came first, and then he wanted a world to set those languages in. #BODTolkien

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Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias was first published in the 11 January 1818 edition of The Examiner - 200 years ago today. Shelley's manuscript draft is kept in the @bodleianlibs collections with shelfmark MS. Shelley e. 4.

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The @bodleianlibs at @UniofOxford is the UK's largest university library system. We hold more than 13 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections, including manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art, printed ephemera. #MyHandleExplained

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You might have noticed our Instagram has been quiet of late. You see, we've been 'suspended'.😳 @Instagram 's artificial intelligence wants us to prove we're old enough to use it. Don't they know we're 419 years old? We've chucked our appeal into the ether. Watch this space!🤞

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We asked you what would make a library perfect. You mentioned ladders a lot. Ladders and pubs.

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#OnThisDay 400 years ago, #Shakespeare 's #FirstFolio was published! There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves. But here's something unique. We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!

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Over the next couple of weeks we will be looking closely at the digitization of our archive, at what digitization does well, and what it does not-so-well. It all starts with our introduction to #booksquashing , complete with lots of illustrated examples.

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The ampersand - & - is sometimes called the 27th letter of the (modern English) alphabet. There's something immensely satisfying about writing an & - & many artists, typographers & designers would agree!

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In 1526, Yolande Bonhomme became the first woman to publish an edition of the bible. See her Biblia Sacra in our #BODTreasures exhibition, Sappho to Suffrage.

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Happy #StPatricksDay ! He brought Christianity to Ireland, and drove the snakes out with his stick. #OneInOneOut

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