Our Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social has written an introduction to the ODNB’s new set of entries on female stationers:
16.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
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A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.
15.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
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VIDEO | In Hungary, the fascist Orban government tried to ban the Pride Parade🏳️🌈and threatened to punish those who joined.
The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
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Protest in Honolulu estimated at 7-10 thousand—which is really big for us!
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See you there for this important demonstration!
04.06.2025 23:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
Steven Pinker’s nuanced take on Harvard and its contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
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This is by Arjun Appadurai.
27.05.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself
26.05.2025 17:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from a Zoom presentation that shows a PowerPoint slide introducing a talk, "Selling Your Plan in Jacobean England," by Aaron T. Pratt of the Harry Ransom Center. In a camera feed located in the upper-right corner, Pratt begins his talk.
If you missed my sniffly @nvshakespeare.bsky.social talk on author attribution in early English playbooks—both print and manuscript!—last month, a recording is available online:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
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ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it:
www.mla.org/content/down...
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/12/congress/donald-trump-library-of-congress-fight-00342326
NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning.
w/ @ktullymcmanus @jordainc
t.co/BJ79oZAj9C
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Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it.
The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid.
Why?
To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
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“This colorful view of a crowded reading room may show the 135th Street Library---now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture---where the country's first significant collection of African American literature, history, and prints opened in 1925. Everybody appears absorbed in their books, and the standing figure in the front looking at African art may represent the artist as a young man, delving deeper into his heritage.” Smithsonian American Art Museum
‘The Library’
1960, Jacob Lawrence
10.05.2025 17:49 — 👍 3465 🔁 566 💬 1 📌 39
So if I am getting this right:
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
11.05.2025 01:35 — 👍 1891 🔁 895 💬 49 📌 38
Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
09.05.2025 08:54 — 👍 571 🔁 159 💬 15 📌 13
Photograph of a printed broadside from 1605 that depicts and describes (in German) the people and places involved in the papal conclave that May.
This German broadside from 1605—by Heinrich Ulrich— illustrates the papal conclave that elected Camillo Borghese that May. He became Pope Paul V.
(@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)
07.05.2025 22:57 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
01.05.2025 19:41 — 👍 298 🔁 115 💬 0 📌 12
Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
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To be reckoned with from now on, for sure!
25.04.2025 14:35 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit. Shakespeare and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Lecturer in Book History at IES. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills, out soon with MUP (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/#generate-pdf). Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
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Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
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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
Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Sinister professor of old books at UIUC. Anti-Zionist secular Jew. He/him. Amateur of music and fervent acoustic guitar enjoyer. <Honk>
…and one duck egg.
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright
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.
