Sunday 21st June 2026

Alice Sanders

The life and death of a library

I feel slightly like a fraud when I confess that I never swore Bodley’s above oath, displayed on the entrance desk to Duke Humfrey’s Library. That isn’t to say that I would ever act against it.

Too much, yet never enough: Is burnout real? 

It is easy to denounce burnout as a masquerade if you have never watched a candle burn itself out.

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