Durham Residential Research Library

Durham Residential Research Library offers visiting fellowships to study the historic collections of Durham, including @durham_uni @BedesBooks and @UshawLibrary

[Durham Residential Research Library @ResearchDurham]

Only five days left to apply for Visiting Fellowships at
@ResearchDurham for the academic year 2020-2021! Deadline: 17 February 2020

[Durham Cathedral Library @BedesBooks]

It's #MuseumsWeek & today's theme is Behind the Scenes, so here's a glimpse into what it takes to care for some of the more unusual items in our collections. Cleaning the cathedral's 17th century font canopy involves scaffolding & specialist equipment.🪜🧹
#BehindTheScenesMW

[Durham Cathedral Library @BedesBooks]

First published in 1859, these extraordinarily beautiful prints of British seaweeds were created using a technique called ‘nature printing’, when a plant was pressed into a plate of soft lead.
#RareBooks #WorldOceansDay #WorldOceansDay2021

[Durham Cathedral Library @BedesBooks]

Whoop! Whoop!

Another manuscript added to the Durham Priory Library website.

Which makes it 220 manuscripts & over 90 THOUSAND images! 📚📷🥳

The new addition is MS B.III.8, a 14th century compendium of monastic rules.
https://t.co/EIN6CIYJMl
#IIIF #MedievalTwitter

[Enrico Reggiani @enricoreggiani2]

@Elizabethpowell on A Study of David Jones's 'Crucifixion' @CCSDham
#CatholicMuse #CatholicLiteracy (hopefully)
https://t.co/up02bmzUPe @EventbriteUK

[American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory]

On June 15 Dr. Shannen Dee Williams (@BlkNunHistorian) will deliver a talk titled The Real Sister Act: Confronting the Uneasy History of Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life in the United States. Another great event put on by @CCSDham! https://t.co/tWZUuTGkZP

[American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory]

Registration for the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (@H_WRBI) research showcase is now open. The showcase will feature scholars from a range of different disciplines and will celebrate the latest research concerning women religious.

[Durham University Library (no longer active on X) @dulib]

🗣️ Did you see that we have paid student internship opportunities across our department throughout summer 2021?! If you’re currently @Durham_Uni student or are graduating this year, you're eligible to apply! The closing date is 1 June so don’t miss out! https://t.co/GAIvWKCYaW

[Durham University Collections (no longer on X) @DU_Collections]

There are many accounts of visitors falling in love with Durham in our collections… and then there’s this from Tobias Smollett’s Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Pleased TripAdvisor didn’t exist in the 18th century. More stories of journeys to Durham here: https://t.co/gdi8QoVgpx

[IMEMS Durham @IMEMSDurham]

History of the Book #CFP details now on our new web pages: https://t.co/Bf7JOlc8cQ
#history #books

[Durham History of Catholicism @histcatholic]

Registration is now open for our next free Ushaw Lecture: Dr Shannen Dee Williams will be discussing "Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life in the US" on June 15th via Zoom! https://t.co/CcWkdUgevm #nuntastic #catholicism

[History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland @H_WRBI]

#nuntastic announcement: registration for our #HWRBI2021 Research Showcase in partnership with @CCSDham, is now live at the following link: https://t.co/BvRytrXadU. For more info about this #nuntastic event, check out https://t.co/QOwLfIEXwV

[Durham University Library (no longer active on X) @dulib]

We're delighted to offer a range of paid student internship opportunities across our department throughout summer 2021! If you’re currently a @durham_uni student or graduating this year, you're eligible to apply! https://t.co/UV9XVIm0HY @careersatdurham @dumuseums @PalaceGreenLib

[Durham Cathedral Library @BedesBooks]

'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' by Abraham Ortelius was first published #OnThisDay in 1570. Considered to be the first modern European Atlas it was so successful 31 editions were published over the next 40 years. Here’s our 1584 edition.
#Cartography #Maps #RareBooks #OTD

[Canonesses' Collections @SepsCollections]

I was pleased to write a blog post for @LuxSterritt on the Canonesses' migration narrative, a manuscript that documents their history in the years of the Revolution in Liège, and their subsequent evacuation and migration to England. #speccolls #histmonast
https://t.co/A0FuTxpJq3

[Liam Temple @LiamPeterTemple]

Delighted to be back in the archives at @PalaceGreenLib looking at #nuntastic Poor Clare material relating to Capuchins! This manuscript is a late 19thC translation of a 17thC work by French Capuchin Rev'd Fr de Dreux, Master of Novices at Rue St Honore, Paris.

[Durham University Things To Do @DUThingsToDo]

The MA students' have created an #ObjectSpotlight series for social media. All the objects featured will be seen in 'Jericho: An Ancient City Revealed' launching online 10 June. Take a look at Matthew's favourite object from the Oriental Museum's collection in the next tweet. 1/2

[Durham Cathedral Library @BedesBooks]

Fascinating topic for Durham's online History of the Book conference this autumn: 'Organizing & Disorganizing Knowledge'.
Call for papers from scholars working on premodern book cultures from anywhere across the globe.
https://t.co/09a3CUxn4P
#MedievalTwitter #GlobalMiddleAges

[Durham Archaeology @ArcDurham]

Our PHd student @rhebamacha is talking about Curating in Colour: Investigating attitudes towards race and antiquity in 18th and 19th Century collecting culture - at the @NclAntiquaries Virtual Coffeehouse Seminar June 9thhttps://t.co/csyMobO3Cy?amp=1

[Durham World Heritage Site @DurhamWHS]

There's a great opportunity to join in a creative writing activity this weekend ✍️✍️📙📙 Learn something new in this free workshop!
#cosinslibrary #lovedurham #WednesdayMotivation #wednesdaywriting #writingtips @ThisisDurham #library

[Durham Cathedral Library @BedesBooks]

Edward Lear, poet & artist, was born #OnThisDay in 1812. Most famous for his poems, Lear was also a natural history illustrator, publishing England's first book on Parrots. Here's his Varied Lorikeet, reproduced in Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library. #RareBooks #OTD