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Gill Partington

@roguepages

Writer and academic. Deviant reading and odd-looking pages. Editor @inscription_jnl. Fellow in Book History @IES_London. Also cackhanded printing @39_press.

 Cambridge, England
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Joined November 2017
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Inscription #1 in action
inscription (@inscription_jnl) profile pictureinscription@inscription_jnl7 Oct 2020
For readers in a hurry: the whole of Inscription's first issue in 5 seconds flat
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THIS is happening on 23rd May: hands-on study day exploring experimental magazines, from Modernist avant-garde journals to the mimeograph revolution and beyond. Places still available: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magazin…
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Tom Gauld@tomgauld14 Oct 2023
The shocking truth of what is going on in our public libraries! (My latest @GuardianBooks / @GdnSaturday cartoon)
Title: The shocking truth of what is going on in our public libraries! Image 1: A librarian hands a book to a girl saying "I think you'll enjoy this". The caption reads: Teens prescribed mind-altering experiences! Panel 2: A librarian reads to toddlers under a 'Reading is Fun!' poster. The caption reads: Children indoctrinated from an early age! Panel 3: A librarian checks out a pile of books for a user, saying "come again soon!". The caption reads: Free samples distributed to promote addiction! Panel 4: A figure approaches the library by night passing a sign for a Ulysses Study Group. The caption reads: Groups gather by night to study arcane texts!

ALT Title: The shocking truth of what is going on in our public libraries! Image 1: A librarian hands a book to a girl saying "I think you'll enjoy this". The caption reads: Teens prescribed mind-altering experiences! Panel 2: A librarian reads to toddlers under a 'Reading is Fun!' poster. The caption reads: Children indoctrinated from an early age! Panel 3: A librarian checks out a pile of books for a user, saying "come again soon!". The caption reads: Free samples distributed to promote addiction! Panel 4: A figure approaches the library by night passing a sign for a Ulysses Study Group. The caption reads: Groups gather by night to study arcane texts!

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inscription@inscription_jnl28 Jun 2024
One more week left! Win a free copy of Inscription issue 4, on the theme of 'touch'. Tweet us with a photo of hands/books in any configuration. We've had some brilliant, weird, funny entries so far. Can you beat them? Competition closes NEXT FRIDAY!
inscription (@inscription_jnl) profile pictureinscription@inscription_jnl6 May 2024
Win a FREE copy of Inscription 4 (on touch) w. all the trimmings (vinyl LP, Yoko Ono print, posters galore). Just reply to this tweet with a photo of your hands and a book. Best image wins! (Image: Inscription 4 cover, Natalie Czech (2020), 'A poet’s question by Frank O’Hara')
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Dennis Duncan@djbduncan12 Jun 2024
I did a thing for @lrb about one of my literary heroes, Raymond Queneau: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/…
Dennis Duncan · How to Speak Zazie: Translating Raymond Queneau

Dennis Duncan · How to Speak Zazie: Translating Raymond Queneau

Queneau recognised a gulf between literary French and the contemporary spoken language: ‘I came to realise that modern...

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Free copy of Inscription! Enter this competition to win the latest issue on 'touch'. All you have to do is post a pic of hands/books
inscription (@inscription_jnl) profile pictureinscription@inscription_jnl6 May 2024
Win a FREE copy of Inscription 4 (on touch) w. all the trimmings (vinyl LP, Yoko Ono print, posters galore). Just reply to this tweet with a photo of your hands and a book. Best image wins! (Image: Inscription 4 cover, Natalie Czech (2020), 'A poet’s question by Frank O’Hara')
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Only ONE DAY left to sign up to this!! A hands-on course featuring some of the @UL's most fascinating movable books. Find out about interactive features from the early modern spinning volvelle to the nineteenth-century flap book and beyond. ies.sas.ac.uk/events/movable…
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LOL. Apologies to the University of Limerick. We will of course be holding this course on movable books in Cambridge @theUL and NOT @UL. Don't get lost!
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Lift the flap on the history of moveable books at @IES_London’s one-day course at Cambridge University Library on 26 April. @roguepages will lead the course and take students through UL's collections to see some rare and remarkable examples. Book now: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/movable…
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Only FOUR days left to register for this: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/movable…. A great opportunity to get your hands on some amazing movable books in @theULSpecColl, from secret codes and anatomical flapbooks to the kitsch and just plain weird.
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Still a few places left on this course - come and experience some of Cambridge UL's most unusual and interactive books.
Cambridge University Library (@theUL) profile pictureCambridge University Library@theUL2 Apr 2024
Lift the flap on the history of moveable books at @IES_London’s one-day course at Cambridge University Library on 26 April. @roguepages will lead the course and take students through UL's collections to see some rare and remarkable examples. Book now: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/movable….
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Sarah Pyke@pykelets29 Mar 2024
Yesterday in @theUL Tower I found a pop-up book about the royal family visiting Australia and New Zealand so I'm confident that this course will be worth your time
Pop-up of an enormous car (with Charles and Diana inside) driving near a tiny pop-up Uluru (of course the book says Ayers Rock)

ALT Pop-up of an enormous car (with Charles and Diana inside) driving near a tiny pop-up Uluru (of course the book says Ayers Rock)

Pop-up of Diana, Charles and a baby Prince William on a picnic rug. If you pull the tabs at the bottom Diana's arm moves and William crawls

ALT Pop-up of Diana, Charles and a baby Prince William on a picnic rug. If you pull the tabs at the bottom Diana's arm moves and William crawls

Gill Partington (@roguepages) profile pictureGill Partington@roguepages27 Mar 2024
Booking open for this whole-day course on Movable Books @theUL! Discover the history of interactive pages, from early modern volvelles to twentieth century pop-up books and everything inbetween. lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/moveable…

Moveable Books

FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2024 10AM TO 5PM LOCATION: Hosted in-person in at Cambridge University Library. Directions TICKETS: £175 / £100 for concessions ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible parking, step-free access,

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Booking open for this whole-day course on Movable Books @theUL! Discover the history of interactive pages, from early modern volvelles to twentieth century pop-up books and everything inbetween. lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/moveable…

Moveable Books

FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2024 10AM TO 5PM LOCATION: Hosted in-person in at Cambridge University Library. Directions TICKETS: £175 / £100 for concessions ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible parking, step-free access,

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Want to peer inside some paper bodies? Anatomical flap-books are just one of the things we'll be looking at at part of next month's short course @theUL. Details and booking here: sas.ac.uk/events/movable-boo…
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Get hands-on with some of Cambridge University Library's most unusual and rare books. All happening on 26th April - book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/lrbs-mo…
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MaaikeDx 🖌@RembrandtsRoom19 Feb 2024
Medieval humour. A cat poking its way through a page from a Book of Hours, Flanders c1485.
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UCL Slade@SladeSchool16 Feb 2024
Booking is now open for Spineless Wonders: In Touch, on Friday 15 March, 11am-5pm This latest in the Spineless Wonders series of events looks at small press and artists’ publications through the theme of touch. Online via Zoom Free book via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/837289243…
Black and white photo of a hand with text printed on it.

ALT Black and white photo of a hand with text printed on it.

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Qur'an manuscripts from sub-Sahara and West Africa are made to be portable. The block of loose leaves is held together between boards and slipped into a saddle bag. Large ornamental panels mark each 4th of the Qur'an. [@britishlibrary Or.16,751, Late 18th/19th CE, Nigeria?]
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"The artist Fiona Banner issued herself an ISBN and registered herself as a publication under her own name, 'a sort of self-portrait as a book'”; @james_waddell has reviewed the journal Inscription for this week's @TheTLS: the-tls.co.uk/articles/inscr…

A journal dedicated to the fabric and display of writing

A journal dedicated to the fabric and display of writing

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How to read books without words apollo-magazine.com/artists-…
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