Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Farmer’s daughter, European at heart, living in Reading. Librarian, into Russian culture, foreign languages, early printed books, cycling and cooking.

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

Today we’re celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’, first published on this day in 1883! Here’s our 1915 edition of the book, with map and illustrations inside.

[Children’s Collection 823.8 STE]

#TreasureIsland #OnThisDay

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

With just five subscribers and a few hundred views, Pavel Kushnir's tiny YouTube channel was enough to make him an enemy of the Russian state.

This weekend, he died in custody.

1/14🧵The devastating story of an artist and activist who just couldn't keep silent

[Dr Ollie Douglas @OllieDouglas]

Two opportunties to work with @TheMERL, @UniRdg_SpecColl + other @UniofReading collections.

Collections Images Services Assistant
https://t.co/HPZKJFvsC3

Collections Academic Liaison Officer
https://t.co/w0S0HfTJeh

We're nice and the collections are nice. Come work with us!

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

Powerful example of docu theatre using a local story. Great performances and simple but very effective staging. Thoroughly recommended!🎟️🎭⁦@UniofReading⁩ https://t.co/vQMq8ln08L

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

@OllieDouglas They are safely tucked under their blankets at our storage facility 🐷

[Nicholas Poole OBE Hon. FCLIP @NickPoole1]

Inspirational story, with thanks to @ashifa_k for writing it. If Kosarevsky ever wants to make his way to the UK, @CILIPinfo will gladly welcome him and help him find work as a #librarian. https://t.co/Mc4QNvsC1X #HT @MartinNHW

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

Join us this weekend for a tour of the 'James Joyce: A Love of Language' display and open access Joyce book room!

🕑2pm, Sun 26 Nov
📍MERL/Special Collections
🎫Free (limited to 10 attendees)

Book in advance by emailing [email protected] with your name/phone no.

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

@OrkneyLibrary And, I’d like to know, did the borrower at least manage to grow some decent tomatoes on Orkney during those 50 years?

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

A wonderful kaleidoscope of colourful patterned covers on books from 'The Penguin Scores' series of music books from our newly-acquired Adrian King Penguin Collection

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

Corsi estivi di tecniche artistiche con lingua straniera nella ex-stazione ferroviaria di Bagnacavallo 🎨🇬🇧🇫🇷

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

@ArtMemeLord @ImagesLimerick @WaiteRobyn @liamsims @kirstiewales Ionic since my childhood

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

#savereadinggaol will the MoJ listen to the scream from Reading Gaol?

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

More recently, we joined a successful campaign led by @FNL313 to save the Honresfield Library, a private collection which included a collection of manuscripts written by Jane Austen.
https://t.co/r3OSRvpAok

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

Stunning 15-early 16th cent books and maps on display @royalacademy current exhibition of Hispanic treasures, but the Black book of hours beats them all…
Considering how tricky it is to make parchment, imagine having to then stain it black, a whole tome😰

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

Thank you @lampallib for your generous hospitality today and the most amazing spread of #earlyprintedbooks you put on for us.

We absolutely loved our visit and I still can’t believe I came so close to a 42 line illuminated #GutenbergBible

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

Louisa May Alcott was born #OnThisDay in 1832. Here at Special Collections, we have several editions of her work, including two charming and beautifully illustrated 1915 and 1920s editions of her famous novel, 'Little Women' [CHILDREN'S COLLECTION--813.4-ALC]

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

Happy Thursday everyone! A new cataloguing discovery to share with you all. Here we have a beautifully illustrated 1910(?) edition of William Morris's 'Songs of Chivalry'. As far as we know, it is the only copy in a UK library!
[FINZI BOOK ROOM--SHELF 16E/18]

[Claudia Ricci🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @quaggia]

Today we put these 2 young paper makers to work at the Museo della Carta in #Amalfi.
Papermaking arrived in Amalfi around the yr 1000, from the Middle East. This family-owned paper mill remained in business until 1969

#handmadepaper #vats #pulp #presses #papermill #wovenpaper