Me, feeling great satisfaction as I look at my empty UCL inbox, despite knowing I managed this by simply forwarding anything outstanding to my Manchester email address.

Going round a National Trust house with family last weekend, and my dad casually, innocently asks, "so why did they have a civil war and do away Charles I?". (Much to everyone's relief I was stopped before I could launch into a lengthy ramble through the historiography).

Thanks! Yes I’ve come across this elsewhere with manuscripts, which is one of the things that made me wonder about print catalogues

Thanks for this Anna, this is really interesting!

Library catalogues that is, not bibliographies or such like, although that's another question!

I'm intrigued, does anyone know of any online catalogues for printed books which make the data provenance (such as date stamps of edits made, sources of data such as from card catalogue retroconversion, or the name of the cataloguer) available to front-end users?

In Manchester for the Clerical Lives 1600-1800 conference and what a glorious day for it

You know you’re trying to use train WiFi when it takes 45 minutes to sent one quick email

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Looting and Learning: my essay with Jan Loop on the role of looted manuscripts & Muslim captives in the history of European Qur’anic studies, for a special issue of Erudition and the Republic of Letters, “The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe” brill.com/view/journal...