Winter: Winter 2020 has come and we are still in the clutches of coronavirus. I hope with all my heart that it is teaching us all something.… Read more “#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Winter issue 2020, no.68 @FoxedQuarterly”
Category: Bibliography
#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Summer issue 2020, no.66 @FoxedQuarterly
I’ve decided to write my review for the Summer issue on a dark rainy day in July 2020. As always I have a pot of tea and… Read more “#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Summer issue 2020, no.66 @FoxedQuarterly”
#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Spring issue 2020, no.65 @FoxedQuarterly
Delighting in a pot of tea served up in a 1940s Beryl Wood’s Ware cup and saucer, I’m wistfully enjoying the spring edition under a Dorset cottage… Read more “#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Spring issue 2020, no.65 @FoxedQuarterly”
#review Slightly Foxed, Winter issue 2018, no.60 @FoxedQuarterly
The Fox illustration by Chris Wormell Light the fire and settle into your deeply inviting, old and battered armchair with a pot of tea which you are… Read more “#review Slightly Foxed, Winter issue 2018, no.60 @FoxedQuarterly”
Clement of Llanthony : hunting for #medievalmanuscripts
As part of the Heritage Lottery Funded project to restore the grounds and surviving buildings of Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester, the plan is to digitally reunite the… Read more “Clement of Llanthony : hunting for #medievalmanuscripts”
#bookreview The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
Goodreads blurb: Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but… Read more “#bookreview The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas”
An introduction to the decentralised collection of manuscripts with provenance of Llanthony Secunda Priory: archivist’s project
As volunteer archivist for the Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust, I have spent 6 months toiling with information management and cataloguing software to spur the direction of the… Read more “An introduction to the decentralised collection of manuscripts with provenance of Llanthony Secunda Priory: archivist’s project”
#review Manuscript Cataloguing and Book History. The Library. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Vol 18, 1. March 2017 p. 45-61
This article on manuscript cataloguing and book history is written by Ralph Hanna, Emeritus Professor of Paleography, University of Oxford. He is editor of Speculum Vitae: A… Read more “#review Manuscript Cataloguing and Book History. The Library. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Vol 18, 1. March 2017 p. 45-61”
#bookdesign George Orwell’s 1984
This year, fake news and alternative facts have come to the forefront of our world. Yes people, newspeak is real. A resurgence in the popularity of George… Read more “#bookdesign George Orwell’s 1984”
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Photo courtesy of Waterstones Waterstones blurb: Set in the brooding marshes of late Victorian Essex, the recently-widowed Cora Seagrave relinquishes the staid predictability of the capital… Read more “The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry “