@pykelets

#QueerBibliography, histories of reading, children's books, materiality, browsing, etc.

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It’s here! The Papers of the @BibSocAmer special issue on #QueerBibliography I co-edited with @malcolmjnoble is now out! journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pb… Featuring Michael Bronski on DIY publishing after Stonewall, @ceyingst on pseudonymous publication and trans possibility 1/4
'FagRag' in pink, then 'Gay Male Newspaper' and a parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930). Cover of Fag Rag’s first issue, June 1971. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ Collection, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries, LG MS 007, 14, 276, https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fagrag/1.

ALT 'FagRag' in pink, then 'Gay Male Newspaper' and a parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930). Cover of Fag Rag’s first issue, June 1971. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ Collection, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries, LG MS 007, 14, 276, https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fagrag/1.

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Forty years ago, @gaystheword was reeling from raids by HM Customs & Excise. You might've heard of 'Operation Tiger', but probably know less about the books accused of being 'indecent or obscene'. Our new exhibition @SenateHouseLib @SASNews reveals more – london.ac.uk/about/services/…
Black-and-white photo of Gay's the Word shopfront by Robert Workman, courtesy of the Robert Workman Archive, Bishopsgate Institute. Overlaid with pink and black circle reading SEIZED BOOKS! LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain.

ALT Black-and-white photo of Gay's the Word shopfront by Robert Workman, courtesy of the Robert Workman Archive, Bishopsgate Institute. Overlaid with pink and black circle reading SEIZED BOOKS! LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain.

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Sarah Pyke@pykelets12 Apr 2024
Also visited our little Seized Books! display @SenateHouseLib which is on until the end of April. It's free! (See london.ac.uk/seized-books for more or browse here: omeka.senatehouselibrary.ac.…)
Cartoon from Christopher Street magazine, it's about pool-playing lesbians

ALT Cartoon from Christopher Street magazine, it's about pool-playing lesbians

Display case showing New York Native newspaper, a Phil Andros novel with Tom of Finland cover and exhibition info

ALT Display case showing New York Native newspaper, a Phil Andros novel with Tom of Finland cover and exhibition info

Display case showing You Are the Rain by R.R. Knudson and Sandra Scoppettone's Happy Endings are All Alike

ALT Display case showing You Are the Rain by R.R. Knudson and Sandra Scoppettone's Happy Endings are All Alike

Display cases for Seized Books! LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain at Senate House Library until the end of April

ALT Display cases for Seized Books! LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain at Senate House Library until the end of April

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Sarah Pyke@pykelets4 Nov 2024
A couple of new blog posts up on the Seized Books! site. Maybe you remember some of our lesser-known and harder-to-research titles? We've spotlit five mystery books here london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…

Required reading

Read about some of the lesser-known books seized during the 'Operation Tiger' raids with Sarah Pyke (Associate Research Fellow)

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Pun in the title of this post all my own work btw
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And, six months (and counting) on from our launch, we have a reflective round-up post on working together across disciplines and institutions on this project and exhibition. Includes some exciting news about Seized Books! The Musical (yes!) london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…

Taking stock

Reflecting on the Seized Books! project so far, with Sarah Pyke (Associate Research Fellow) and the wider project team

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A couple of new blog posts up on the Seized Books! site. Maybe you remember some of our lesser-known and harder-to-research titles? We've spotlit five mystery books here london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…

Required reading

Read about some of the lesser-known books seized during the 'Operation Tiger' raids with Sarah Pyke (Associate Research Fellow)

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And, six months (and counting) on from our launch, we have a reflective round-up post on working together across disciplines and institutions on this project and exhibition. Includes some exciting news about Seized Books! The Musical (yes!) london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…

Taking stock

Reflecting on the Seized Books! project so far, with Sarah Pyke (Associate Research Fellow) and the wider project team

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My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while displaying quotations from the Library's statement of values
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Roughly 25 Harvard professors conducted a silent study-in at Widener Library on Wednesday to protest the library’s decision to temporarily ban pro-Palestine students who held a similar demonstration last month. @tillyrobin and @neilhshah15 report. thecrimson.com/article/2024/…

Harvard Faculty Hold Widener Library ‘Study-In’ to Protest Student Activist Bans

Harvard Faculty Hold Widener Library ‘Study-In’ to Protest Student Activist Bans

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Palestinians being rounded up and executed by Israel as the world watches on. I don’t ever want to hear the words human rights and international law mentioned again. They don’t exist.
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Happy to announce something exciting that we’ve been working on for a while. The Long Wave, a weekly newsletter on Black life and culture around the world, is launching on 30 Oct. Written by me and edited by the mega talented @jaseokundaye. Sign up here! theguardian.com/global/2024/…

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🚨🚨🚨🚨 WE DID IT! After workers of Piraeus all night blocked the #israel container the ship "Marla BULL" departed WITHOUT the weapons The people can win! From Greece From the world #Palestine is not alone! MURDERERS OUT FROM THE PORT!
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Tom Gann@Tom_Gann14 Oct 2024
For the last year, I’ve been thinking about the final passage of Berger’s “Photographs of Agony” almost every day.
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Israel’s military offensive and siege pose an existential threat to Palestinians in Gaza. The UK Government must end its complicity in Israel’s war on Palestinians and immediately halt ALL arms transfers to Israel. Take action now: map.org.uk/campaigns/email-y…

Campaigns

Raise your voice and show solidarity with MAP's campaigns.

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If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?
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We're looking for a @Cambridge_Uni student to join our board of trustees 👀 Passionate about the Botanic Garden's future? Apply to join our Syndicate alongside @Beverley_CUBG & @fionacreynolds Please share! More info: bit.ly/CUBGSyndicate @plantsci @CropSciCentre @slcuplants
A group of young people cross the main lawn

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Delighted to announce the relaunch of Print Exchanges and our upcoming Critical Bibliography event on 13th November! Come along to watch our illustrious panellists, and join a supportive, cross-period network of colleagues working on print printexchanges.wordpress.com…

Forthcoming Events

Print Exhibitions Event 4.00-5.30pm BST, Wednesday 9th September, 2026 Location: online, by zoom. Registration required.* We are delighted to announce our forthcoming Exhibitions Event. This is a c…

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A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/colle… “And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
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James@james_j_bailey27 Sep 2024
“Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur”
Maggie Smith in the role of Jean Brodie, in the film adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

ALT Maggie Smith in the role of Jean Brodie, in the film adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Sarah Pyke@pykelets1 Aug 2022
'August, the sinister pause in the year...' – Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets (1936)
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Design for a Library. Eiríkr Magnússon’s endlessly expandable spiral design for a new @theUL, 1885 (never built!). Magnússon was Under Librarian from 1871-1909. He also taught Icelandic to William Morris. #LibraryHistory
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