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I asked before we left if you'd got the satnav!
Caption Competition 3
Thank you to everyone who entered our last caption competition, the image of the medieval water clock from Additional MS 18719. There were some really great one-liners but our favourite caption (no prizes, unfortunately!) goes to M. Mitchell Marmel for the following: "Sorry, but if you want a do...
Janus was struggling to get his head round the 5:2 diet!
Something for Everyone
Additional MS 36684 is a Book of Hours, about the size of a small paperback, made in Northern France in the area of Saint-Omer, near where our large set of Arthurian volumes (recently immortalised in cake) were made and decorated, also in the 2nd decade of the 14th century. Though this is a comp...
This is a charmingoece, but you may want to alter 'alludes' to 'eludes' in verse 3
Ten Things To Know About Medieval Monsters
In their new picture book published by the British Library, Medieval Monsters, medieval historian Damien Kempf and art historian Maria L. Gilbert explore the fantastic, grotesque and exuberant world of monsters in the Middle Ages through the images found in illuminated manuscripts, from dragons ...
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