Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Had a lovely two days. Excellent papers aside, I absolutely loved the programme with all the early modern print references! Thanks for organising such an interesting conference. :)
11.09.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥
Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance.
#EarlyModern #Skystorians
03.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 120 🔁 24 💬 6 📌 3
Some hidden music I caught sight of today!
20.08.2025 14:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall
18.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
9 June 1549: #otd The first Book of Common Prayer became compulsory in #England (BM)
09.06.2025 12:06 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
cloisters and catalogues at Lincoln Cathedral
10.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Library and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Book history, Shakespeare, early modern studies @ Penn English. Views just my own. Image in header is from: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen'l Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org/ / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • refusenik • moon gardener
Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on 17th-century queens and global nature, cross-cultural material exchange | PhD, Art History, on Catherine of Braganza
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
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Part-producer, part-historian, 100% in the archives. PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Learner gardener. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
PhD in 18thc erotica / Antiquarian bookseller at The Keel Row Bookshop // she/they
Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
📍 Where natural things, books and images are
🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures
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Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge; climate activist. Coordinator of http://royalsocietyletter.uk and https://gmcletter.wordpress.com/
Early modern & genealogy tutor at Conted Oxford. Lecturer at Wake Forest Uni (London campus). Writing on English Civil War sequestration, & John Bradshawe. Vice-Chair of @Cromwellorg.bsky.social. Reviews Editor of @MidlandHistory.bsky.social.
Jack of all trades & master of none: Frances Wolfreston scholar, librarian, book historian, Dylanologist, poet, native gardener, historic preservationist, small-time campaign manager. Former professor & rare-book cataloger. EM women's reading, too. She/her
Early modern historian at the University of Cambridge | Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Fellow of Darwin College | PhD on the Bishops' Bible of 1568 | General book lover 📚
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
The Antiquarian Booksellers Association's premier book fairs
Firsts London: 15 - 18 May 2025
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Leverhulme ECF at Cambridge: named early modern library collections, politics of book provenance, science & lit.
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network; sometime poet.
Forthcoming: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
