Bat Tower Missives

Annabel the Archivist

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

Are you following @TheBookerPrizes this year? @maryjean_chan will be in conversation with Enora Lessinger exploring their role as a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize on Tues 5th Dec at 6pm. More details and sign up here: https://t.co/uRKbDBEP64

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

@h_kjn I just wish I still had my cargo pants!

[Surrey History Centre @SurreyHeritage]

Please share this Library, Information and Archive Apprenticeship opportunity at Surrey History Centre in #Woking. 24-month fixed term role. Closing date for applications is 30 July 2023. Find out more and apply here https://t.co/EtEa0Zw7T1 https://t.co/XuxyF5JfuW

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

Happy 75th birthday to the NHS and all who work for it! 🎂Our new online exhibition highlights some of the NHS history in our collections: https://t.co/q1ar7VxqCb #NHS75 #NHSBirthday

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

@ARA_PCG @BookAndPaper_NI @archivehour @PRONI_DFC I was going to ask if anyone is doing a study on this!

[Archive Hour @archivehour]

Don't forget to join us here at 8pm tonight for an excellent #ArchiveHour session with @ARA_PCG and their guest hosts Mark, @LancsArchives, Shirley, @wyorksarchives, and Sarah, @BookAndPaper_NI!!

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

@OffMenuOfficial Almond essence or water chestnuts

[Lancashire Archives @LancsArchives]

If you're interested in learning about and discussing preventive conservation, please consider following the @archivehour account; from 8PM on Thursday they will be tweeting and chatting about preventive conservation – how to prevent damage to documents and objects!

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

Well worth a listen! You can find out more about the Paul Oliver Archive of African American Music here: https://t.co/wl7S1MW1fr

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

Have accidentally dressed to match the beer mats! 🍻

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

We’re set up and ready to go at the History Thesis Fair! Looking forward to chatting about our collections this afternoon
@HFLOxford

[Conservation @ARA_PCG]

TOMORROW! Come join us for the PCG discussion session Wednesday (3rd) at 2pm. This month’s theme is ‘New Ways of Making Collections Accessible’. Email [email protected] for the link!

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

@MostlyReading Shuggie Bain - I loved it but it was utterly heartbreaking 💔

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

A very sad day but it feels right to have a permanent reminder of Chris on the wall. Truth be told there are reminders of her everywhere I look in the special collections.

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

Yesterday we gathered to remember our dear friend and colleague Chris Fowler, and to name the Artists’ Books Collection in her honour. Chris’ dedication to her work as Academic Liaison Librarian will be known to many across the University and beyond.

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

I’ll take a swan of lemon sorbet please 🍨

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

A book that may come in handy over the following week, complete with some intriguing suggestions for your ice moulds 🤔

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

Looking for the #TinyJoys today - it’s the turn of A1 on the jukebox, one of my absolute favourites

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

@walchster Write your references down is always my first (& second) tip for students. And make friends with the archivist - bring us cake (although not in the reading room!), compliment our knitwear, we’re often as useful as the catalogue in identifying relevant material for your research!

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

Today would’ve been Paul Oliver’s birthday & to celebrate his Archive of African American Music we’re discussing Black Musicians in Europe, past & present, tomorrow at 7pm with @EricBibb Rainer Lotz & Michael Roach, chaired by @drcoconnell Book here https://t.co/QUqie973WX #Blues

[Bat Tower Missives @BatTower]

Definitely recommend applying for this - I applied last year after Covid cuts removed our training budget and was successful. Got to be in it to win it!

[The National Archives Research @UkNatArcRes]

You still have time to submit your application for a bursary for #DCDC22. 👏Join us for this year’s theme 'Inclusive Innovation' and learn how digital innovation is transforming the #GLAMA sectors and their relationship with their audiences.

Apply here.
https://t.co/nJAxzPDfPo

[Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive @BrookesSpecColl]

Inspired by the ‘Vanilla: anything but boring’ talk @britishlibrary yesterday we’ve found this vanilla illustration from ‘History of the Vegetable Kingdom’, 1868. William Rhind describes the pod as having an odour ‘said to induce a kind of temporary intoxication’. Powerful stuff!