Are you a social media savvy book historian with a talent for sharing news in the digital sphere? We might have a role for you! SHARP News is looking for a new editor, details below👇🏼
28.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill
The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
27.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
SHARPists & book historians, do you know about our ‘Letters and Literature’ conference next week online on Teams? Details below, check the programme and please do register online for any sessions that interest you! ✉️✍🏽 @sharpnews.bsky.social
27.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Press release for the launch of the Writers' Nook at University Hospital North Tees on 14th of October 2025 at 3pm
Excited to announce the launch of the Writers’ Nook in Café Wilbers, Tees Restaurant, UHNT, Stockton on Tees, developed with Dr. Siobhan Campbell of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Nurse Consultant Mel McEvoy.
Official unveiling on Tuesday 14 October, 3pm.
PLEASE SHARE AND COME ALONG!
10.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!
Apply by October 01 2025.
See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books
17.09.2025 22:14 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
Online only conference from the 5th to 7th of November 2025.
Excited to see the preparations for our upcoming Conference:
‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
Online only from the 5th to 7th of November 2025. More details soon!
10.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Do you know about #OpenARC, the Open University’s new Arts & Humanities Research Centre? Find out more below👇🏼
@sharpweb.org @crasshlive.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org @britishacademy.bsky.social
09.05.2025 10:53 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What a great idea - and so timely!
08.04.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SHARP is looking for a new treasurer! Details below, please send in your nominations by 7 April (applicants will need to be US based/US citizens for this role)
27.03.2025 11:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Always lovely to see nice author feedback ❤️
Read ‘Books, Libraries and Fiction’ free online or download here (or buy in print): uolpress.co.uk/book/books-r...
@ies-sas.bsky.social
14.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
Researcher of authorship, identity performance, and online book culture. Writer of fantasy and anything else that takes my interest. Day-to-day supporter of learning development and academic skills in HE. She/they
Scholar of Earth's history in literature and culture. Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (rlf43@cam.ac.uk). Author of "Contesting Earth's History" and "Reimagining Dinosaurs".
Wandering scholar at Open University. Digital Humanities, Book History, Comics and Thomas Moore. Irish/Italian. She/her. Views my own.
The official Bluesky account of the English and Creative Writing department of The Open University, UK.
Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
rare bookseller, renaissance platonist, kitchen gardener. now based in philly.
newsletter: https://twohalfsheets.substack.com
Author, book trade event attendee, Negroni drinker https://ullapoolism.wordpress.com/blaire-squiscoll-author/
Director of SGSAH. Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
AHRC SGSAH PhD researcher looking at social media and the publishing ecosystem. Also interested in literary history, platform economies and digital culture. Usually found talking about disability awareness, food, books or 00s TV
Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Poet/Writer | Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing @OpenUniversity | SFHEA | Nullaby and Full Sight of Her @EyewearBooks | Exit Strategy @brokensleep | www.patrickwright.co.uk
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.
A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncriticaleditions
Associate Lecturer at the Open University; Victorianist; researcher on Mary Braddon, periodicals, women's writing; Secretary of @vpfa; dance teacher; and I love sewing.
❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis
Book historian; publisher at jadunivpress.org/; harassed dog parent; likes to cycle, play football when possible.
Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
