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Icon Book and Paper Group retweeted
📢It's the final few days to apply to join Team BodCons for a year as our next conservation fellow📢 @Conservators_UK @IconBook_Paper @IconEPN @bodleianlibs
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Hey that’s us! Come join us on 29th June and join the fun!
📢 We have an announcement!
This month's #ArchiveHour on 29th June will be hosted by @ARA_PCG and we will be looking at preventive conservation! 🤩
Stay tuned for more information!
Icon Book and Paper Group retweeted
We discovered Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours…and it’s the book painted on Cromwell’s desk by Hans Holbein the Younger in his famous portrait of Cromwell!! @hevercastle @DrOwenEmmerson
Solving a 500 year old mystery - A THREAD (1/9)
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Calling #conservators operating on @Twitter @instagram or other social media platforms! 📨📯📭
Gloria Conti, @UnNomeACaso and Paola Fagnola @bottegafagnola are looking for your opinions…
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@IconBook_Paper @Conservators_UK @conservators @ICRI__
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If you are in Oxford on 26th June make sure you pop over to the Weston Library to see our colleague Kate share more about her recent investigations into pigments used in Japanese & Byzantine manuscripts from the @bodleianlibs collection #HeritageScience @IconBook_Paper @ICONSci
The Summer solstice brings the colours of Byzantine and Japanese manuscripts this year ☀️🎨🔬Join our wonderful Heritage Scientist Dr. Kate Fulcher on23/06 to hear about her research findings @bodleianlibs @BodCons @bjlsocial @MatthewHolford @Kate_Fulcher visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/even…
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Happy #VolunteersWeek! 🙌✨
A heartfelt thank you to the amazing conservators & heritage scientists who generously volunteer their time and expertise to serve the profession.
Together, we work to safeguard the stories of the past for future generations. 🏛️🔒❤️
Icon Book and Paper Group retweeted
Our joint talk with @IconBook_Paper on the history of dressmaking patterns with @vickyhaddock is happening tonight 7-9pm ⬇️
The @IconBook_Paper and Textiles Group continue our joint talks on 31st May, 7-9pm BST, with a talk on the history of dressmaking patterns by @vickyhaddock. Tickets are free to Icon Members and £10 for non-members: icon.org.uk/events/textiles-…
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Join us on 22 June for a knowledge exchange workshop, exploring the presence of historic pesticide treatments on paper-based collections.
The event is hybrid with the option to join online or at The National Archives, Kew.
Find out more and register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/knowledge…
ALT A note printed on paper stating "A poisonous insecticidal solution has been used in binding this book".
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The @IconBook_Paper and Textiles Group continue our joint talks on 31st May, 7-9pm BST, with a talk on the history of dressmaking patterns by @vickyhaddock. Tickets are free to Icon Members and £10 for non-members: icon.org.uk/events/textiles-…
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🌟WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS🌟
@Conservators_UK
ALT The Book & Paper Group is saying goodbye to committee members at the end of their terms. We are a busy committee that works on an ongoing programme of classes & lectures, grants, conferences and conference publications, and other projects as they arise. We meet quarterly, almost always online now, usually with a video call from around 7 PM (GMT London). All meetings are currently online. When we are able to meet in person (at least at the AGM), travel expenses will be reimbursed within the UK. We are more than happy to welcome anyone from outside the UK who can be available online in the UK evening for meetings! All of the roles currently advertised can easily be done remotely. We’re also more than happy to have students on the committee. Terms are two years and can be extended once. It is a requirement that you are either a primary or secondary BPG member.Roles currently open: Treasurer IT Officer Student Liaison Officer Social Media Officer Development Officer Special Projects
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The @IconBook_Paper and Textiles Group continue our joint talks on 24th May, 7-9pm BST. With a talk on the Naples bed hangings 19th century printed paper curtains repurposed as bed hangings. Tickets are free to Icon Members and £10 for non-members:
icon.org.uk/events/textiles-…
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We are HIRING a Project Paper Conservator to work exclusively on the unique and rare Buckland Archive for 8 months.
Want to work closely with these materials? Apply now!
oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/project-p…
The Museum has acquired an important archival collection relating to 19th-century geologist and theologian William Buckland. The archive contains over 1,000 items including letters, notebooks, family papers, prints, and artworks.
ALT Buckland in his glacier hiking gear with a top hat, large coats and bags full of surveying equipment. It is an etching shown in a box full of old news clippings and
Icon Book and Paper Group retweeted
📢New #BodJob alert📢Applications are now open to join team #BodCons as the next T. A. Barron Fellow in Conservation @bodleianlibs @Conservators_UK @IconBook_Paper @LladoBuisan #conservationjobs Closing date 16th June, more info here: tinyurl.com/58ddz9xv
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📖 @IconBook_Paper’s annual Frederick Bearman Research Grant lecture is happening tomorrow!
It’s not too late to sign up to hear grant winner Kiri Douglas share new research about synthetic paper.
📅: 11 May, 7-9pm
📍: Online
Register here: icon.org.uk/events/book-pape…
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TOMORROW! Come join us for the PCG discussion session Wednesday (3rd) at 2pm. This month’s theme is ‘New Ways of Making Collections Accessible’. Email [email protected] for the link!
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💐23 May - @Icon_Textiles: AGM 2023 & Graduate Research Exchange
💐24 May -@IconBook_Paper x @Icon_Textiles: A Patchwork of Shared Skills with @EmilyOConserve and Rosamund Weatherall ACR
💐31 May -@IconBook_Paper x @Icon_Textiles: A Patchwork of Shared Skills with @vickyhaddoc
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💐11 May - Icon 2023 Members' Meeting
💐11 May - @IconBook_Paper: The Frederick Bearman Research Grant Winner 2020 Lecture by Kiri Douglas
💐17 May - @IconBook_Paper x @Icon_Textiles: A Patchwork of Shared Skills with Karen Limper-Herz @britishlibrary
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Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Münich will livestream "NANOMATERIALS for Conservation" with Professor Piero Baglioni on Thursday 4th May 2023 from 9.15am (Irish time) onwards. Youtube link:
youtube.com/watch?v=gb2ZFc8A…
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A question for @IconBook_Paper & @BodCons: how do you call repurposed manuscript fragments used by other people than bookbinders, e.g. the nuns using it as sewing guards? @CarolineDanfor4 called it "material fragments" in her @OxMedStud lecture
youtube.com/live/g_gat38OmCU…