22 March 2014
Blogtastic!
You may recall that we asked for your help earlier this year, when we asked for your votes in the inaugural National UK Blog Awards (Vote for Us Please). We're delighted to tell you that, thanks to your overwhelming support, we have made the list of finalists in the Arts and Culture category. We understand that more than 16,000 votes were cast in total (not all for us obviously), but we are hugely grateful for your support: every little vote really did count! You can read more about the National UK Blog Awards here.
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, from our blogpost More Unique Than Most (4 February 2014)
The awards ceremony itself takes place on 25 April. We are dusting off our snappiest suits and poshest frocks, to make a good impression on the night itself. Most of our time we spend hovering over our computers, beavering away to make our collections available online or dreaming up ever more outlandish blogposts (and a thousand other things besides). It's great to know that somebody out there is impressed by what we have been doing.
Imaging the manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, from our blogpost Gawain Revealed (23 February 2014)
Since the time we asked for your votes, here are some of the stories we have posted on the Medieval Manuscripts Blog. We hope that there will be many more like these to come. Let us know your favourite by tweeting @BLMedieval.
A Papyrus Puzzle and Some Purple Parchment
An Illustrated Guide to Medieval Love
Medieval Drama Acquired by the British Library
More Unique Than Most: The Benedictional of St Æthelwold
She Cares Not a Turd: Notes on a 16th Century Squabble
Two Magnificent Manuscripts Saved for the Nation
The Mystère de la Vengeance, from our blogpost Medieval Drama Acquired by the British Library (6 March 2014)
Julian Harrison and Sarah J Biggs
"It's great to know that somebody out there is impressed by what we have been doing. "
I'd hope other readers, like me, are very impressed with what you're doing! Posh dinners are incidental.