@researchandv.bsky.social Thanks for the book and the beautiful card and message. It's just been delivered

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"No previous century of human life has had a more generous and knowing portrait than the one Chaucer gave to his own time in the pages of The Canterbury Tales." Steve Donoghue on a new biblio-biography. openlettersreview.com/posts/chauce...

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If you know a bit about a subject, AI can help you do stuff more quickly (but it will be vanilla flavour). If you know a lot about a subject, AI can get you to the next level. If you know naff all about a subject, AI will gloss your ignorance and take you down any rabbit hole you're tempted towards.

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NEWS! After 14 long and somehow also very brief years I'm leaving @rcpmuseum.bsky.social before Christmas to become special collections librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge in the New year. Expect an uptick in Pepys content for 2027. And a metric skipload of nostalgia in the meantime.

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I had sewn all the badges we collected onto the big girl's badge collecting blanket. I have been collecting my own too but I have yet to make my mind up on a blanket.

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