BL Printed Heritage Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

There is an exciting fixed term vacancy in our team to catalogue a collection of early printed newspapers. You can find all the details including how to apply here: https://t.co/s5cPzyVi1f Deadline is 19th May. #lisjobs

Botanical 'discovery' went hand-in-hand with colonialism in the 18th/19th c., but these plants weren't discoveries to those that already lived there.

Visit the library's Flickr for more free images from our collections like these

#plantappreciationday

https://t.co/zkOiMJODdu

To celebrate the opening of #UnfinishedBusiness, we are showcasing a selection of women from our collections over the next week.

Mary Astell (1666-1731) was a writer and early advocator for women's rights (esp. education). This is her book about the inequalities of marriage.

The subject of today's thread is Aphra Behn - a 17th century author, poet and playwright. Born in 1640, her early life is mysterious. It's possible that she travelled to Surinam, the English (and later Dutch) colony, only returning to England in her mid-twenties.

Elizabeth Blackwell's 'A Curious Herbal' (1737) was an unprecedented enterprise for a woman of her time
To survive and pay her jailed husband's debts she produced this beautiful herbal; drawing, engraving and illustrating it single handedly
#CreativityInACrisis #CollectionsUnited

The London Rare Books School @LondonRareBooks have put some lectures & recordings online of events hosted by the Institute of English Studies
Listen especially to Brooke Palmieri's: 'Queer books - an academic, a collector and a librarian discuss the field'
https://t.co/Ubcfxubez6

If you love experimenting or expressing yourself with #collage here's an ace blog post on how to assemble collages using the million plus openly licensed #publicdomain digitised images on the British Library’s Flickr account #BLisOpen #LetsGetDigital💻💪🌍
https://t.co/5pPVYNCGkY

A lady sits reading by the sea.
A beautifully serene #SundayStuff image from the October 1795 issue of Niklaus Heideloff’s periodical ‘Gallery of Fashion’. His beautiful coloured engravings were published between 1794 and 1803.
#herbook
https://t.co/dYomtHM2ie

But aren’t all Unicorns white with pink and purple manes?! (Or is that just ‘My Little Pony’?)
Have a joyful #NationalUnicornDay with these hand-coloured animals from the Holy Land on a folio from Breydenbach’s ‘Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam’ 1486.
https://t.co/gX5ZsAXBYD