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Global Museum<p>“No, no, you’ve brought the wrong colour shield. We’re the away team today.” - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, f. 150r @MedMilMedicine <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a></p>
Global Museum<p>Finding another pair of his pants drying by the bed was the last straw for Alice - 14th century, Bodleian Library, MS. Barlow 22, f. 12v</p><p>@MedMilMedicine <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a></p>
Global Museum<p>More fun than a barrow of monkeys - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, f. 98v</p><p>@medmilmedicine.bsky.social <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/monkeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monkeys</span></a></p>
The Wild Hunt News<p>A new exhibit at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library explores thousands of years of practices in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/divination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>divination</span></a> and prediction, from oracle bones to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horoscope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horoscope</span></a> apps – and even includes demonstrations of the spider divination carried out by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria.</p><p><a href="https://wildhunt.org/2025/01/oracles-omens-and-answers-explores-history-of-divination-from-tarot-to-tiktok.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wildhunt.org/2025/01/oracles-o</span><span class="invisible">mens-and-answers-explores-history-of-divination-from-tarot-to-tiktok.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OraclesOmensAndAnswers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OraclesOmensAndAnswers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Witchtok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Witchtok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tarot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palmistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palmistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bones</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oracles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oracles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodleianlibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleianlibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witchcraft</span></a></p>
Cornovia Postcards (Old)<p>Schools Quadrangle, Bodleian Library, Oxford, c.1970 - Thomas Postcard</p><p><a href="https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/schools-quadrangle-bodleian-library-oxford-c-1970-thomas-postcard-221154179.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ebid.net/uk/for-sale/schools-q</span><span class="invisible">uadrangle-bodleian-library-oxford-c-1970-thomas-postcard-221154179.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxford</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/Postcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Postcard</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.business/tags/Postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Postcards</span></a></p>
Medievalists.net<p>Chaucer Here and Now has now opened at the Bodleian Libraries. The new exhibition explores the lasting influence of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, and charts how this unconventional medieval poet came to be known as the ‘Father of English Literature.’ <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/chaucer-here-and-now-opens-at-the-bodleian/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2023/12/chauc</span><span class="invisible">er-here-and-now-opens-at-the-bodleian/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Chaucer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chaucer</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CanterburyTales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanterburyTales</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxford</span></a></p>
Global Museum<p>Happy birthday to the <br>@bodleianlibs who opened their doors on this day in 1602! ⁠<br>⁠<br>This painting depicts the Divinity School, the ground floor hall below Duke Humfrey's Library, right at the heart of the Bodleian <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
Peter Gray<p>The Irish in early photography - Maria Edgeworth (1841) and Tom Moore (1844) @ <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a></p>
IT News<p>New imaging tool confirms female scribe etched her name in medieval manuscript - Enlarge / Bodleian MS. Selden Supra 30 open at pp. 18-19. (credit: John... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1915258" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=1915258</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/photometricstereorecording" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photometricstereorecording</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/forensicarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forensicarchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/bodleianlibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleianlibrary</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/medievalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalhistory</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a>&amp;culture <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/archioxproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archioxproject</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/3dimaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3dimaging</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/optics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>optics</span></a></p>
Elaine Anderson<p>Free online event with the Director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, and Head of Gardens Libraries and Museums at the University, Richard Ovenden. </p><p>"Richard Ovenden looks at the central role that libraries and archives play in ensuring knowledge and history are preserved; how political, religious, and cultural motivations can drive censorship, book banning and other threats to our open and civil society, and how the work of libraries and archives are pillars for open society and in support of democracy." </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/librarianship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarianship</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OpenSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSociety</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BodleianLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodleianLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UniversityofOxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityofOxford</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxford</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/richard-ovenden-libraries-as-defenders-of-open-society-registration-523843739727?fbclid=IwAR3jbNI3Y_D5jEPgpCISU4uu0ZcL3Q_p5Sj4q_MqVKMp6o_JVTE3exSDNdE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.ca/e/richard-ovende</span><span class="invisible">n-libraries-as-defenders-of-open-society-registration-523843739727?fbclid=IwAR3jbNI3Y_D5jEPgpCISU4uu0ZcL3Q_p5Sj4q_MqVKMp6o_JVTE3exSDNdE</span></a></p>
Cheshire<p>Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/28/womans-name-and-tiny-sketches-found-in-1300-year-old-medieval-text?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/n</span><span class="invisible">ov/28/womans-name-and-tiny-sketches-found-in-1300-year-old-medieval-text?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodleianlibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleianlibrary</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manuscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manuscript</span></a></p>
Tanmoy<p>Knowledge is light. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bodleianlibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleianlibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxford</span></a></p>
Nick Tankard<p>Another illustration based on the work of Philip Pullman <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bodleianlibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleianlibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Michael H Whitworth<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodleian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodleianlibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodleianlibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fellowships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fellowships</span></a> </p><p>Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections are awarded to promote research based on archival, manuscript, and printed books collections of the Bodleian Libraries. </p><p>Application Deadline 2 December 2022</p><p><a href="https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh</span><span class="invisible">ips/bodleian-visiting-fellowships</span></a></p>