We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship
#historyofthebook #bookhistory
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Thank you, Karen!
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Proofs!
29.09.2025 08:26 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
There’s still time to submit your #bookhistory #bookstudies proposals!
15.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Still plenty of time to get those #bookstudies abstracts in! #bookhistory #bibliography
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And here's the first session!
#SharedFutures
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Vol. 14 (2025): The Politics of Book History: Then and Now
| Journal of Early Modern Studies
Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)
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Yesterday’s Reading Matters salon at English: Shared Futures, sponsored by @ies-sas.bsky.social and @univeng.bsky.social No pics of the Reading Matters panel as I was chairing, but brill papers by @lisablowerwrite.bsky.social Carina Spaulding @readingagency.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social
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The Queer Lives of The Life of H.H. (1822, 1688, 1650-1651)
| Journal of Early Modern Studies
I’m really happy to be a part of this special issue on ‘The Politics of Book History: Then and Now’. Thanks to @georginaemw.bsky.social and @zacharylesser.bsky.social for all their hard work editing the collection oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
03.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣Our Shakespeare in London display is now open!
📅 30 June to 25 September 2025
A chance to see our rarely displayed treasures related to #Shakespeare.
✅ Shakespeare's signature
✅ John Keats’ 1820 copy of Shakespeare’s plays
✅ Civitas Londinum map
www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...
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A few more pics from Anatomy of the Book last week, ft. guest sessions with Karen Attar, Giles Mandelbrote, and David Pearson 📚
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Hercules has a pot to piss in
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booklabs - BookLab Network List - subscribe
One immediate action item following our "Building BookLabs" symposium was to establish a mailing list where folks running/founding/dreaming up book labs & adjacent initiatives can share resources, opportunities, events, & other materials—if you’d like to be connected sign up at the link below!
12.06.2025 17:16 — 👍 33 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
Manchester University Press - The dreadful name of Henry Hills
The dreadful name of Henry Hills - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The dreadful name of Henry Hills by Michael Durrant
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/ My book, The dreadful name of Henry Hills, is now up on the @manchesterup.bsky.social website! Chapters on Hills’s beginnings, queer books, imprints, conspiracy, and wills. Starts out in Kent (or possibly Wales) and ends up in Surat. Out March 2026.
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📚 Join the Bodleian Conservation Team as a Book Repair Technician! 📚
We’re seeking a Book Repair Technician to help preserve our collections. Working under the guidance of the Book Conservator, you’ll master the skills and techniques of modern book repair. Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Visiting Research Fellowship
Senate House Library (in partnership with the Friends of Senate House Library) annually invites applications for a Visiting Research Fellowship.
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social, in partnership with the Friends of Senate House Library, invites applications for a Visiting Research Fellowship.
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
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And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates
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This!
16.05.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Get reading! All the texts from issue 5 of INSCRIPTION: THE JOURNAL OF MATERIAL TEXT are online and downloadable for free at inscriptionjournal.com
We are a double-blind peer reviewed, green open access journal. Published by Information as Material in a partnership with Leeds Beckett University
22.05.2025 08:34 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Please do sign and share this petition, put together to save Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections from job cuts that will see 3 of 4 archivists made redundant. @cilip.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social
18.05.2025 10:34 — 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
English Short Title Catalogue
ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜
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Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Research Professor | Founder https://www.mindlinkor.com/ | https://github.com/mctrinh | https://x.com/_mctrinh | 🇻🇳 🇰🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇯🇵
Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
Chicano | Professor of English
at ASU | Director, ACMRS | President, Shakespeare Association of America | All views my own.
EN/FR-SP literary translation, Shakespeare & Translation Studies
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Maestría en Traducción - CELL/COLMEX
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
📍 Where natural things, books and images are
🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen
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Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • #PhilSci #HistSci #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Indy #historian. PhD #Birkbeck. Authority on #ACuriousHerbal by #ElizabethBlackwell. Self-taught #gardener. Unchurched #Christian. #Anglophile. Occasional #printmaker. #Michigander.
Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.
Knowledge-monger at Carnegie Mellon University: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. wrote a book called literature & the law of nations, co-founder of six degrees of francis bacon. humanities for all.
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
Website: https://deidrelynch.org
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, forthcoming from Oxford UP Nov 2025!) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
researching and writing various things
close reading forever
Director of SGSAH. Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Read teach eat run, bike write build. Traveller; always learning. Teaching (classical) Japanese at a public univ. in USA. Doing life and Japanese book history, etc. In diversity, strength; in equity, justice; in inclusion, an open welcome. LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Lit prof at San Diego State University; author of "Early Modern Others: Resisting Bias in Renaissance Literature"; words @newsweek, @Salon, Inside Higher Ed, Public Humanities, Times of San Diego
