Welcome back to the First Monday Library Chat! After last month’s chat with the Winterthur Library in Delaware, we now jump to Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. Today I’m chatting with Glynys Hohmann, Team Lead in Government Records, and Karen Simonson, Reference Archivist in Access and Preservation Services, at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. You have … Continue reading First Monday Library Chat: Provincial Archives of Alberta
By Laura Mitchell Studying medieval charms can bring to light a lot of intriguing social practices and help us to understand what sorts of everyday worries occupied the mind of a medieval person. It can also be an exercise in frustration at the limitations of our information. The Trinity College Library MS O.1.57 manuscript (Cambridge) … Continue reading The Disappearance of Charms from a Fifteenth-Century Notebook
The Recipes Project now has a Facebook page for lovers of old recipes! Come see us there, as Laura Mitchell magics up bits and bobs from around the interwebs. Recipes… in the news! Stories about recipes… from other blogs! And sometimes pictures, too! If you’re on Facebook, please give us a like and join our … Continue reading A New Direction for The Recipes Project
Whilst perusing some seventeenth century recipes for medicines I stumbled across a few curious ingredients. Granted, many of the ingredients found in Johanna St. John’s recipe book – aside from now common herbs and spices like cinnamon or saffron – might look odd to the modern eye. Some of the ingredients that struck me were … Continue reading The Early Modern Matter of Fecal Medicines
