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Check out this film of our AHRC/NEH 'Finding a Place' project. Lots of fabulous illustrations from old books: youtube.com/watch?v=CorKvP… #Illustrations @CUSpecialColls @CUEngCommPhilos

"My God, My God" oil on canvas.

@teacherhead Great to see this topic being discussed. I’ve also written about aphantasia and teaching for those interested in the subject: tes.com/magazine/teach…; and teachingtimes.com/aphantasia-lea…

#ClassroomVoices 20: Aphantasia – The Dark Room of the Mind and the Adaptive Classroom teacherhead.com/2026/02/15/cla… via @teacherhead by Trent Strickland

@mflibra Who is the illustrator?

Feel the dark pulse of poetry in The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, a scarce 1890 edition whispering mystery through hauntingly beautiful illustrations. mflibra.com/products/1890-… Explore Poe’s lyrical shadows, where each verse opens a doorway into fascination, melancholy, and gothic allure. #BookWithASoul #MFLIBRA #OwnAPieceOfHistory #EdgarAllanPoe #RareBooks #GothicLiterature #VintageIllustrations #PoeticMystery

A new case of anthropodermic binding ⁦@Ken_Gibb⁩ Who was the Suffolk Red Barn murderer Willam Corder? - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'Ghosts among the philosophers - Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?' (the 'ectoplasm' featured is in the archive of the SPR, held at Cambridge University Library): aeon.co/essays/when-ps…

Randolph Caldecott was born on this day, March 22, in 1846. In Maurice Sendak’s words, Caldecott’s balance of pictures and words heralded “the beginning of the modern picture book”.

Have you ever thought about what you see — or don’t see — in your mind’s eye when you read? Take a look at this piece I’ve just written about aphantasia and reading: tes.com/magazine/teach…

Aphantasia: education’s blind spot in teaching reading tes.com/magazine/teach…

@BillBloodyHughe Thank you, Bill!

@Lost_Visions Congratulations--looks fabulous!!

It’s finally happened. This recommendation is a career highlight. (I have a new book out, by the way!)

@MelissaTricoire Thank you so much, Melissa 😊

Died #OTD 1875, the artist Robert William Buss, leaving unfinished his best known work: "#Dickens's Dream." Take a closer look: which of these iconic characters can you identify? victorianweb.org/art/illustrati…

DARK FAIRYLAND The entrance to fairyland is said to be in forests, hills, or in mountains. It is associated with the land of the dead in mythology. Mortals who enter may disappear forever unless they are able to perform some task of value to the fae 🎨Doré, 1870 #mythologymonday

According to @ZSLLibrary it's #WorldHippoDay, so here's Harrison Weir's wonderful chromolithograph of one, from "The Pictorial Cabinet of Marvels," 1878 victorianweb.org/art/illustrati… (just hoping it's too much of a mouthful for the crocodile!)

Ladybird book pictures on request. ‘A sea of porridge’ The Magic Porridge Pot, 1971 Artist: Robert Lumley

This is not a catacomb or an eccentrically-lit dungeon ~ it’s the inside of a 19th century cello (photo: Adrian Borda) messynessychic.com/2018/08/13/13-…

A digital exhibition for those interested in AI, historical images (and cathedrals). Based on work we are doing with @lampallib shorturl.at/vCIQt

A woodcut peering out from a 16th century binding. It's been used as the pastedown on a 1596 Frankfurt printing of Aristotle's Physics, but we can't see enough of it to know what it's from #Printed #Fragments #Bindings

Since 1967, this small division at the University of Virginia has investigated the possibility of reincarnation: whro.org/education-news…