Hannah Smith

Early Printed Books Cataloguer. Views mine, all mine. She/her

[Eton College Library @EtonCollLibrary]

🚨Job Klaxon🚨

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Library Curator -- Rare Books and Manuscripts (Maternity Cover) -- with experience of working with special collections, to join our small, busy team. Would you like to join us?
Please RETWEET

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[Hannah Smith @haninthelibrary]

@LucyWoolhouse @SBSLibraries Congratulations!

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How Boris Johnson’s spokespeople answered questions today about whether the Prime Minister broke Covid rules by having parties in Downing Street during lockdown.

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When you're telling Grandad about your plant-based recipe and he's less than enthusiastic...

... but he buys you the nutritional yeast anyway.

Good luck, bakers! We can't wait to see what you come up with on #FreeFromWeek.

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@BritishBakeOff #GBBO

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For #CaramelWeek we're treating you to 'payn ragon', a spiced caramel from The Forme of Cury.

This recipe uses the soft ball method of sugarwork, a technique the bakers will know well. However, bakers at home: please DO NOT 'take up a drope thereof with thy fyngur'! 1/2 #GBBO

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You've heard of rough puff and shortcrust, but what about 'surprizing paste'? This recipe comes from Sarah Harrison's The House-Keeper's Pocket Book (1739). The result will be 'very short and good'. We appreciate her confidence!

#GBBO #PastryWeek
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Well, we're stumped: it turns out that our collection is rather light on the history of German baking. Instead we'll be eating a generous slice of this! @BritishBakeOff #GBBO #GermanWeek

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It's #BreadWeek on @BritishBakeOff, and we're rising to the occasion (sigh) with Eliza Acton's 'The English Bread-Book'. Our copy contains a poetic inscription, addressed "To Mrs Downing with #EdmundBlunden's nourishing wishes, February 10th 1924" (see below). #GBBO 1/3

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Crumbs, is it #BiscuitWeek already?

The Biscuit was a magazine edited by Etonians and containing stories, poems, cartoons and advertisements for local shops. It ran for two issues in 1914, until the Eton Chronicle branded it 'rather indigestible'! #GBBO

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#GBBO is back! Our collection is jam-packed (sorry) with recipes that have been passed down through the generations. This bun recipe is recorded in a 17th-century manuscript household book. Would you make this today - and would you add saffron? @BritishBakeOff #cakeweek

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Happy #InternationalDogDay.

From Rudyard Kipling's Collected Dog Stories (1934), illustrated by G.L. Stampa.

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What's more, beneath the Godfrey binding the pages are full of Thomas Smith's annotations, doodles and increasingly intricate manicules! #rarebooks

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This book once belonged to Sir Thomas Smith (1513-1577), Secretary of State to Elizabeth I. Smith was also a humanist scholar and prolific annotator. Most of his collection remains at his old Cambridge college, @Queens_Lib - but evidently not all!

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Who doesn't love a Garrett Godfrey binding? It's always a treat to come across this particular roll.

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He might not be the most majestic of lions, but this little fellow has been guarding this book for 500 years! Can you make him out? This blind-rolled lion perches on the initials 'G.G': Garrett Godfrey, the Cambridge bookbinder.

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#WorldLionDay #rarebooks

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On #InternationalCatDay we simply had to share these illustrations by William Blake for Thomas Gray's 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes.' Gray wrote the poem in 1747 after the demise of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.

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#Tokyo2020 has caught our imagination! We've been searching our collection for references to the #Olympics.

De Arte Gymnastica, Girolamo Mercuriale's study of sport and gymnastics in the ancient world, contains woodcuts which may or may not depict sports such as discus throw...

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#Onmydesktoday Surprise! 🎁

🌿🌿Nice finding this in our copy of the Theatrum botanicum, London 1640 (Gh.1.07). 🌿🌿

Would you help us identify the leaf?
@LinneanSociety #rarebooks #leaves

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We're looking for an Assistant Librarian (PT, maternity cover) to work with our rare books and manuscripts. Closing on 23rd July!

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#LadyJaneGrey, The Nine Day Queen, was deposed #OTD in 1553 and executed later that year. For centuries her story caught the imagination of countless storytellers, including William Harrison Ainsworth, author of 'The Tower of London' (1840). 1/2

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This has a distinctly Molesworthian feel to it chiz chiz

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#MotivationMonday!

Nope, the Latin lesson wasn't boring at all!
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#doodles #rarebooks

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As if we needed an excuse to celebrate #chocolate...it's #WorldChocolateDay!

This 18th-century advert for @TwiningsUk
promotes chocolate and #cocoa as well as #tea and #coffee. 216 the Strand is London's oldest tea shop and is still open today.
https://t.co/RCZnLLn7Jo
#ephemera