The river Thames looking mighty fine on my way to our senior management team meeting Bodleian Libraries at our Osney Mead Facility

So good to read about this Kenyan library renewal project. There are too many instances in the UK where we are letting our own great system of free public libraries decay. Its a tragedy for our society, which other nations, less well provided than we are look on with disbelief.

This is tremendous!

The missile strikes on Kyiv damaged the Taras Shevchenko University Library: knu.ua/en/news/12438. We are donating 5,000 € from the SUCHO Equipment Fund to restore the buildings for the winter. Please consider donating directly or through our fund: opencollective.com/sucho/projects….

Come to the Folkestone Book Festival ! To hear Will Self and myself discuss book bans, book destruction and censorship (and Ulysses) on 26 November, 6pm

‘Erica Wagner shows herself to be a forensically astute reader of the memoir and letters that Trevelyan left behind and deposited in the Bodleian.’ So says Lyndall Gordon in this review of ‘Mary and Mr Eliot’ by ⁦Erica Wagner⁩
In todays Sunday Times. thetimes.co.uk/article/6414a0…

So sad to hear this news Katherine was an outstanding scholar, and a very generous and kind and supportive human being. She loved working in Bodleian Libraries and we loved having her as part of our community. What a loss.

Such a pleasure to be among old friends and former colleagues - especially to see Margaret Masson and St Chad's College old members. So good to see Durham University Alumni coming out in force!

Next summer we will open our new Reuben College, Oxford buildings, shared with RSL 🤝
Help make the space inclusive >>> Which contributions to science from under-represented groups should RSL highlight in this space??? blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/2022/1…

So pleased to be speaking on the panel on ‘Hidden Libraries as Landscapes of Resistance and Survival’ (organised by ⁦Lithuanian Culture Attaché in the UK⁩ & ⁦BritishLibraryEvents⁩) with ⁦lara lempert⁩, Laimonas Briedis and Jean-Marc Dreyfus

Huge pleasure to meet ⁦Eitvydas Bajarūnas⁩ this evening, speaking about Hidden Libraries in Lithuania and other parts of Europe (courtesy ⁦BritishLibraryEvents⁩ ⁦Lithuanian Culture Attaché in the UK⁩)

Really enjoyed a visit from ALASTAIR CAMPBELL - to look at political archives (past, present, & future) and maps of famous football stadia! We also showed him the manuscript of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom to give him bragging rights with Rory Stewart ... theneweuropean.co.uk/alastair-campb…

If you can get to Bodleian Libraries , see this display on “Malevich’s Black Square and Its Precursors “, a pure delight

It’s finally happened! There is finally a mention for Bodleian Libraries on the Adam Buxton Podcast! Thanks to Samira Ahmed for the shout out referencing her research on the Mary Whitehouse papers. EP.189 - SAMIRA AHMED play.acast.com/s/18dcd5db-f89…

These will be amazing!