Tim Wade

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

This looks like a very interesting conference, being organised by @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de. 21 to 23 May 2026.

Abstracts due 1 December 2025.

#EarlyModern #skystorians #16thC #17thC

I am once again asking the British punditry class to look at the coffee supply chain to see why it’s gone up in price!

Happening tomorrow! Join me and Simon Devereaux. We’ll be chatting about my new book on London prisons and more generally about the history of imprisonment.

(Un)chained Knowledge In the mid-15th century, at the time when Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410-1475) settled in Leuven as a town painter, access to scientific knowledge was very limited. Professors could afford manuscripts, while ...

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:

Cover von JbKG 27 (2025)

Das "Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte" erscheint in Band 27 (2025) in diesen Tagen: www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fue...

Zum Inhaltsverzeichnis: medien.davlink.de/978351514024...

Die Rezensionen sind, wie jedes Jahr, open access. #skystorians

Have a good weekend

Currently on its latest travels!

Archivist: We kindly ask you to put your bag in a… wait, what is that?

Me: A pop-up Rembrandt house!

Archivist: …

Me: I got it at The Hague!

Archivist: …

Me: Do you want to look?

Archivist: Use the lockers please

A lesser traveller might have thought twice about buying an A3-sized, replica seventeenth-century house midway through their research trip to the Low Countries - but not me!

The Aldine edition of Lucian of Samosata (1503), annotated by the printer Robert Estienne (1503-1559) and his son, Henri Estienne (1528-1598) 

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

"Job insecurity shreds productivity, both through the time and effort required to apply for jobs and the impact of such insecurity on mental wellbeing."
Nail head hit.

I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Looks like the death knell for academia .edu. Another corner of the internet that is dead. Is it worth creating an account somewhere else? Where do people gather these days?

#skystorians #academicsky

Autumn Seminar Series @LUCK LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre A…

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK:

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a...

#skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

📢Book event📢

📗To Detain or Punish
📅Sep 24

Free and open to the public. RSVP below!

Join NACBS to celebrate @kiranmehta.bsky.social recent publication To Detain or Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840.

www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

read Joan Wallach Scott's reflection on her family, her childhood, and our present moment -- equal parts moving and sad, defiant and beautiful, thoughtful and angry, realistic yet in search of concrete reasons to build hope

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

Made a little pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp today which was wonderful. The new ‘Women’s Business’ exhibition is fab as well

#BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

Thus I had that treasure with me during the dreadful night of August 25/26, when the approaching blaze drove me out of a friend's hospitable house into the fire-lit streets, where bullets whizzed past me until I found a shelter, and where at daybreak I was kept standing for a time beside a pile of burning corpses under the brazen look of the statue of Justus Lipsius;

Constantly amazed at the efforts of scholars in 20thC to edit the materials on which so much Renaissance history still relies. Here's Henry de Vocht's account of rushing the famous Cranevelt letters through the streets of Leuven during WW1

#skystorians #EarlyModern

The picture label just said ‘Reviewer 2 delivers feedback’ #AcademicSky #Skystoriana

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

📣Only two weeks left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center Provides Funded Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities The humanities library and museum will award up to 50 fellowships to support scholars, artists, and writers conducting on-site archival research.

Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!

Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚