The @IconBook_Paper and Textiles Group continue our series of joint events this month, starting with an introduction to embroidered bookbindings with Dr Karen Limper-Herz on 17 May, 7-9pm BST. Tickets are free to Icon Members and £10 for non-members: https://t.co/BeG0TqG8EM
Join us at the Annual #FBRG lecture on May 11 to hear all about the research that Kiri Douglas has conducted on #syntheticpaper History and composition, use by artists, degradation characteristics and much more.
Book now! 🔜 https://t.co/p2sC79sOdu
@Conservators_UK#conservation
Congratulations to @TinMillPress Victoria Stevens ACR! 🏆
The grant will support her research ‘The work of their hands: binders, bindings and material use in the construction, care and conservation of Catholic written heritage’.
Read all about it 👀 https://t.co/MulQ1oTT7Y
Applications for the next round of the ✨Frederick Bearman Research Grant✨ are open until 20th September. This year extended to a wider set of participants.
For more details ℹ️ ➡️
https://t.co/MulQ1oTT7Y
#bookconservation@Conservators_UK
Frederick Bearman Research Grant - £1k to research into any aspect of the conservation of books, paper and related materials.
Deadline 20 Nov:
https://t.co/9rHUmGWaG8
We’re getting geared up for tomorrow!
If you are not able to join us live, all those registered for the event will receive a link to a recording of the lecture which will be available to view for a short time after the event 🙌🏻
Book now👇🏻
https://t.co/lbvqoGzSvN
#Conservation
And don’t forget to also book for The Rusty Staple, our virtual pub social, for a poison themed #pubquiz 🍻and fun, informal chats!
https://t.co/mixLydcp7x
The real-life Victorian version of the poison book in Name of the Rose... Bibliophiles, Librarians, Booksellers, and Literary Folk, the project linked in this thread is an essential read if you own or regularly work Victorian books 📚
The 19th-century books on your shelf might be poisonous📗☠️
The "Emerald green" pigment was popular in England and the United States during the Victorian Era - now known to be extremely toxic.
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Fancy spending a year working and learning @bodleianlibs with the @BodCons team? Then why not apply for the first T.A. Barron Conservation Internship for emerging book and paper conservators?
Details ⬇️
https://t.co/LfKAX4OS06