book with details from an early modern map on the cover
Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!
26.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 70 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0
Fresh feta cheese twist, perfect drip coffee, and graduate research homework in a cafe that makes me feel like I’m in Los Angeles, California while actually being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ❤️
26.09.2025 01:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Volume 4.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Plays: Volume 2.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Plays: Volume 4.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 01:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).
26.09.2025 01:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
George Washington’s (rebound) personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) at the Boston Athenaeum Library.
8 September 2025
Portrait of George Washington at the Boston Athenaeum Library.
8 September 2025
George Washington’s personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) that most certainly influenced his views on what democracy could be.
26.09.2025 01:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A 19th-century list of the books borrowed from the Boston Athenaeum Library by Louisa May Alcott.
8 September 2025.
A 19th-century list of the books borrowed from the Boston Athenaeum Library by Louisa May Alcott.
26.09.2025 01:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025
Details about the the 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025
Artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025
Details about an artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025
The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide (written by sadistic, power-hungry, pathetic men who preyed on the vulnerable). And a 21st-century artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 01:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Description of a historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Description of a historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Artworks.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 00:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Description of etiquette expected for a dumbwaiter at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Dumbwaiter at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Dumbwaiter etiquette.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Card catalogs at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Card catalogs at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
“Analog” card catalogs (for any in the audience who’ve never seen them before).
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 00:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Railings & stairways.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
Ceilings & roofs.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
26.09.2025 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
Opening reception of the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
What an exhibition! I’ll be visiting many more times but for now, here are a few highlights.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
@edward.gorey.house
26.09.2025 00:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
E is for Edward (Gorey) who was gloomy and glorious.
H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work.
S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.
26.09.2025 00:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025.
Just casually being a Henry Louis Gates Jr. fangirl tonight as he promotes his new book, The New Negro, co-authored with Martha H. Patterson.
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
26.09.2025 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025.
Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025.
Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025.
You think you know a few things about the US government and how we are barely holding onto democracy by a thread, and then you hear Reich talk. It’s much worse. But there’s still hope. 🤞
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
26.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
…but I greatly admire Reich’s passion for the underdog and his aggressive approach to fighting bullies (like the US President). Check out his viral videos and countless interviews (he recently chatted live with Steven Colbert).
26.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I accidentally absorbed some of what they explained to me. I finally understood how social justice, democracy, and cultures throughout history were influenced by economics, and not always negatively. Problems still abound (especially now), and there is never one size to fit all…
26.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When I was an undergrad at University of California at Berkeley, Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social was still teaching there. I have never taken a university Economics course in my life, but I had friends at the time who were in his classes. He changed their lives and by extension, my own.
26.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
25.09.2025 22:21 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Just finished a live chat for Talking Tudors @onthetudortrail.bsky.social on Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. There were some great questions!
#talkingtudors #womenwhoruledtheworld
25.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Someone has underlined "Hypatia a woman of great lear-ning."
I've been looking for moments like this ever since I read Gerda Lerner: moments when Renaissance women find other women writers and claim them.
To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.
23.09.2025 02:42 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
“When I strapped on my stylish wooden stilts-for-shoes this morning and ate a large breakfast, I may just have forgotten how tricky it would be to get to the privie in haste in the afternoon.”
23.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This book is out today!!
04.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 48 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Elizabethan Occult Poetics | Home
Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry
MANY, many congratulations @renaissancerach.bsky.social on the publication of your beautiful book 👇 ✨️👇✨️👇✨️
"Elizabethan Occult Poetics" | Home share.google/2bFFv6b41C8V...
02.09.2025 18:05 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
online archive of historical social movement stuff
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Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Medievalist. Feminist. Poetry now and in the last 1000 or so years. Arts. Practice. All kinds of books and their histories.
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Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Modern History/Secondary Education Undergrad. Aspiring Feminist Historian.
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The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
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Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
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The Bodleian Humanities Library, part of @bodleianlibraries, covering English, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Film Studies, History of Medicine, and Internet Studies
Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University
Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
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Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
Makeademic. PhD English/ Digital Humanities who loves pop culture, paper engineering, physical computing, and digital fabrication. she/her
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Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
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Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
