Over an outdoor flame, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia (Hidden Stories) makes traditional carbon-black ink from burnt Himalayan grain and other traditional ingredients.

Amanda McLeod (Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation) presenting on the care of wampum belts at the Care & Conservation of Manuscripts Seminar, Copenhagen.

Hidden stories team members presenting on traditional care practices at the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts Seminar, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. April 11, 2025 (LT to RT: Alberto Campagnolo, Amanda McLeod, Giselle Simón, Bidur Bhattarai,…

Noam Sienna (center) examining handwritten Hebrew marginalia at the Fisher Summer Seminar on Jewish Books.

Measuring the imprint of a piece of fallen type in a Pentateuch with Commentaries (Constantinople, 1522), in the British Library.

Sienna with the Bodleian Library’s copy of the Arba’ah Turim (Constantinople, 1493), Oxford.

Cover of Jewish Books in North Africa

(LT to RT) McLeod (Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation) and Sandra Sanchez (Indigenous Collections Curator, Beinecke Library, Yale U.) at McLeod’s presentation on decolonizing from an Indigenous perspective, at Yale U.

Amanda McLeod, Melissa Moreton, and Grant Hurley (LT to RT) at the RBMS conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT.