Still plenty of time to get those #bookstudies abstracts in! #bookhistory #bibliography
16.07.2025 09:34 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
And here's the first session!
#SharedFutures
05.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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!)
04.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 41 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 2
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
04.07.2025 07:35 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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...
30.06.2025 08:45 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A few more pics from Anatomy of the Book last week, ft. guest sessions with Karen Attar, Giles Mandelbrote, and David Pearson 📚
30.06.2025 07:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hercules has a pot to piss in
15.06.2025 08:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 — 👍 34 🔁 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.
11.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📚 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...
10.06.2025 14:42 — 👍 368 🔁 93 💬 23 📌 12
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...
10.06.2025 08:38 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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
09.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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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 📚📜
12.05.2025 09:07 — 👍 54 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 9
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07.05.2025 09:27 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2025
Very happy to be giving the John Coffin Palaeography Lecture in London next month. I'll be discussing women scribes, rural communities of literacy, and scribal (mis)behaviours in thirteenth-century scrolls. It doesn't get more exciting than that!
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
01.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 66 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
28.04.2025 14:57 — 👍 42 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 1
Get your 300–500 word abstracts in by 30 September 2025!
25.04.2025 12:50 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog
A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.
Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series!
CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social
07.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 27 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 5
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!) Teaching in Cambridge (Catz). Kiwi.
london.ac.uk/seized-books | librarylist.substack.com | #QueerBibliography
teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
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
She/her. Early modernist at University College Oxford. Petition. John Donne. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in the histories of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
Associate Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London and Book Review Editor for Early Theatre.
Professor of American Studies in Provence, #bookhistory, US literature, #histoiredulivre 📚🇫🇷🇺🇸, literary agents
Assistant Curator @ Wangensteen Historical Library, UMN
Future PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser University
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
