Author: Naomi Hart
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Meet the team: Naomi, Assistant Librarian
Read more: Meet the team: Naomi, Assistant Librarian1. What do you enjoy most about your role at Heythrop Library? I enjoy interacting with our library members, helping them find materials, and talking about the collection. My role as Assistant Librarian is full of variety, which keeps me on my toes and enables me to work on a range of tasks, including cataloguing…
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Reflection on palaeography training course
Read more: Reflection on palaeography training courseOver the weekend of 26-27th October 2024, I had the pleasure of attending a palaeography course called ‘Reading the Past: Early Modern Handwriting and Palaeography’, taught by Dr. Charlotte Berry at Rewley House, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. Palaeography is the study of historical handwriting, including deciphering handwriting and analysing scripts (i.e. the…
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Spotlight: 18th century book with watermark of a mythical creature
Read more: Spotlight: 18th century book with watermark of a mythical creatureLook closely at this photo. What do you see? Imprinted into the paper is the faint image of a striding mythical animal with its tongue sticking out. This is a watermark. When the paper for this book was made by hand, shreds of cloth would have been mashed up in water and a wire mesh…