Lisa posted this one – “For as long as people have been speaking the English language, they’ve been deploying it to poke fun at one another. Let’s dig a little deeper into the grab bag of insults that language has bequeathed us throughout history, and find out where those terms come from.”
Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/50449/origins-9-great-british-insults#ixzz2TN9FT0F4
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Lisa noticed this one – “The Morgan Library and Museum is home to some of the world’s greatest collections of medieval manuscripts, printed books and bindings, literary manuscripts, private letters and correspondence, and original music. Treasures from the Vault, an ongoing exhibition series, features works drawn from these diverse collections in the sumptuous setting of Pierpont Morgan’s 1906 Library. A highlights from this season’s selection includse a mid-fifteenth-century English cooking scroll containing nearly two hundred recipes in Middle English.”
See more:
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=77
“A landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of rare photographs details some of the horrors of America’s civil war (1861-65). The war was documented by the emerging artform of photography, making a record of previously unseen people and events which remains in the country’s consciousness.”
Lisa found this one –
“The art of giving diplomatic gifts is an age-old tradition, practised by kings and queens, popes and emperors, presidents and prime ministers. But what to give?” Check the Medieval manuscripts blog for the answer!
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/the-elephant-at-the-tower.html
“Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.”
See more:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-book-surgeon-15-pieces/
The ‘Magic in Modern London’ iPhone app is a treasure hunt set in Edwardian London. It focuses on the amulets collected by Edward Lovett featured in ‘Charmed Life’ and his investigations into folklore and superstition.
Retrace Lovett’s steps, using evocative audio and images which bring his London to life, as you search for the exact location where each amulet was collected. Retrieve each amulet to unlock its story as told to Lovett, and complete the set to reunite his collection.
Read more about Lovett at:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-mummified-charms-and-amulets-from-the-lovett-collection
Get the iPhone app:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/magic-in-modern-london/id555328123?mt=8
From Seattle Pi blog:
First Editions Second Thoughts is a fundraising auction for English Pen curated by noted bookseller Rick Gekoski. Gekoski invited authors to:
“scribble second thoughts, marginalia or drawings throughout the work in whatever fashion moves you, thus singling out this particular first edition and making it even more desirable for a reader or collector to want to own.”
“We’re on an ongoing quest to spread the brilliance of Black women. That’s why we suggest you read these books and watch these videos.”
Read more here:
http://www.forharriet.com/2013/05/15-free-ebooks-by-black-women.html
Lisa found this one. Number 3 is particularly important:
http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/57067-how-to-be-a-grown-up-in-10-steps.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_377167035734428_2334792_377396542378144#f2dbe61c74