Dr Jacob Baxter

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer.

You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Big book history questions in the excellent finale of #RaceAcrossTheWorld

388 years ago TODAY, a chair was thrown at the Bishop of Edinburgh as he read from a book during a service. Riots followed shortly afterwards. In our latest blog, MLitt student William Lewis explores the book at the heart of the storm: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/a-war-o...

The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li...

We are advertising for a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the history of twentieth-century French imperialism and decolonisation. The deadline for applications is 4 July 2025. You can find out more here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I had a lot of fun last week, discussing the private side of British politics @uio.no, at a brilliant symposium organised by the wonderful @aaronackerley.bsky.social!

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Battle of Clontarf Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

Our very own Alex Woolf is on In Our Time on Radio 4 this morning, talking about the Battle of Clontarf. You can listen to it on BBC Sounds here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

Front cover of 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England' by Hannah Jeans, which shows a line drawing of a woman reading

Thursday is publication day for 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy

Hannah's is the next (and 22nd) title in the RHS New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social

Really looking forward to speaking to the IHR's Low Countries seminar this evening in Bloomsbury. Join us!

A double dose of @basilbowdler.bsky.social, what's not to love?

A seventeenth-century courtier dressed in a simpler style with fancier clothes he has abandoned bing arranged on a chair by a servant. The setting is an early modern interior with a tapestry on the wall and an open leaded window behing the courtier. Chairs line the wall. Below a poem in French explains the courtier's costume changes in response to a sumptuary edict.

🎺HEAR YE, HEAR YE:

We are happy announce our latest post, 'The Fabric of Everyday Life: Sumptuary Laws in Early Modern France', written by @cmfgillain.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher on the Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 project!

Read all about it: ustc.ac.uk/news/the-fab...

We are advertising for Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c. 1100-1500! Deadline for applications is 21 April 2025: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #medievalsky #skystorians

Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

Having an absolute blast undertaking my Maddock Research Fellowship @marshslibrary.bsky.social! If any of you have any Dublin recommendations, let me know!

The title page of a sixteenth century book entitled: 'LEXICON LATINOPOLONI-CUM EX OPTIMIS LATINAE LINGVAE SCRIPTORI-BUS CONCINNATUM, which is dated to 1564. There are some faded manuscript annotations under the main title of the text.

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew!

www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

CfP!

With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025.

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One of the best dressed early modernists out there, @aberjack.bsky.social

a geometric plan for a garden divided equally in a grid with four different patterns in each quadrant

As Spring approaches, it's the perfect time to plan this year's garden.🌳🌹🪴🌷

In our latest blog post, Book History MLitt student, William Lewis, offers Scottish garden inspiration in ‘A Scottish Country Garden: Horticultural Handbooks in a 1700 Edinburgh Book Auction’ ustc.ac.uk/news/a-scott...

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

Good to be back!

Gender and the Book Trades "Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Screenshot of an article: 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England'. Abstract: 'This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions submitted to the magistrates across fifteen jurisdictions with “sessions of the peace” in England, with nearly 1,000 dating from before 1640. Over the course of the early seventeenth century many, if not most, English parishes witnessed attempts to persuade the authorities through collective petitioning. Groups of neighbors across the kingdom formulated their grievances, organized subscription lists, and articulated their own role in the polity as “the inhabitants” or “the parishioners” of a particular community. In so doing, they not only directly shaped their own “little commonwealths” but also unintentionally helped to develop habits of political mobilization in a crucial period of English history.'

My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social!

#OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

The name's Cool. Benjamin Cool. (1700)
@universalstc.bsky.social 3136834.

Spring Term 31 January Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens), ‘Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the early modern Low Countries’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online 14 February Jazmine Contreras (independent) and Nicolaas Barr (Washington): ‘Proprietary Victims: Holocaust Commemoration and Right-Wing Consolidation in the Netherlands’ • Online only 28 February Heleen Wyffels (STCV), ‘Women, gender and social status in the early modern printing house’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online 28 March John Gallagher (Leeds), ‘The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online Summer Term 23 May Jeroen Puttevils (Antwerp), ‘Back to the Future: what can we learn about future thinking in the past from late medieval and early modern merchant correspondences from the Low Countries’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online 6 June Danny Noorlander (Oneonta), ‘The Dutch Garrison on the Gold Coast in the 17th Centur

Look at this *delight* of a #LowCountries programme for @ihr.bsky.social! 🤩

So many faves! @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Jazmine Contreras & Nicolaas Barr, Heleen Wyffels @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social and Danny Noorlander

Fridays 5:30
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Happy New Year! It’s a bitterly cold day in St Andrews, although it clearly has some way to go to match this photograph of the Old Course, taken sixty-five years ago in January 1960.

Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-11-26-3

Graduate Trainee Library Assistant - Institute of Historical Research:London Senate House The University of London

Interested in a career in history and librarianship? We have a fantastic opportunity to come and work as a Trainee Library Assistant in the IHR Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . 2 posts available starting in September 2025 for 1 year. Apply by 31st January 2025.

Ten-year privilege granted by the Privy Council to Gerard Mercator for his world map (mappa universalis),1569, Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Arch. 1179, no. 103.

Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries
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Problems at the printers: How one writer managed their reputation in the Renaissance world of print Guest blog by Tim Wade, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow Library (2024) Tim is a College Lecturer and Julian Schild Junior Research Fellow in Early Modern History at Pembroke C…

Book people: a blog I wrote about my recent research fellowship in Glasgow. Discussing print, errors and Polydore Vergil.

I had a blast and found some gems which I hope to share with you soon!

#skystorians #bookhistory #earlymodern #books

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[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at The Universit... PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at...

Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...