Alex Burchmore

Happy World Book Day!

What is your favourite book?

Here we share a delicate embroidered book cover - the perfect accessory for any book lover in the 17th century.

This cover was made in England in 1632 and originally contained the third part of the bible.

🪡 WA2010.19

Booke, booke,
Reade a booke,
Reade anothir booke,
Reade a large amounte of bookes -
Bookes are freakinge awesome

Enchanted Wood How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities of Depression-era publishing in Britain, urb...

Joan Hassall is 1 of 4 #womenartists featured in

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain,
by Kristen Bluemel, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...
@uminnpress.bsky.social, 2026

#womenartists #artherstory

Deep red cover with two photos of hands reaching toward red theater seats against a dark background

"Fair Use," a special issue of the open access journal liquid blackness, is now available. View the TOC and read the full issue, freely available: buff.ly/szfvoyr

The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!

This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.

Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start

Length: 5.6 cm

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.

I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!

#18thc #17thc #earlymodern

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A book cover with teal bands at top and bottom, with white text in the bands for the title, A Guide to Mao's China, at top and the author name, Gavin Healy, at bottom. In the middle is a artistic rendition of tourists sing and playing music outside with the Great Wall of China and mountains in the background.

Behold, #SkyStorians, the fantastic cover for the fantastic upcoming addition to the @cornellupress.bsky.social Histories and Cultures of Tourism series - "A Guide to Mao's China" by the fantastic Gavin Healy. Intrigued? Great news! You can preorder here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The author copies of the paperback of my book just arrived! Available now @cornellupress.bsky.social and others: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000 Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social

Felipe Souza Melo reviews 'Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000', edited by Carlos Marichal and David Pretel

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A canning jar full of plain white garlic cloves in pale yellow vinegar.

The same canning jar one week later. The garlic cloves are developing curved bands of pale bluish green.

Same canning jar at two weeks. The garlic cloves are turning an improbable blue-green color, but the ends of each clove are still white.

Final result. The garlic cloves are a distinct blue-green color, which is deeper in the center and lighter at the ends.

I decided to make 腊八蒜, a kind of pickled garlic that turns jade green as copper compounds in the garlic react with the vinegar. I kind of didn’t believe it was going to work, but it absolutely did and I’m so tickled (also, does anyone have recommendations for using the stuff up?)

An important question! And one that I know is now a major focus for the Classics Museum - the repatriation cases touched on in the article are just the start of what I'm sure will be a long process of coming to terms with past misjudgements and cultivating more ethical collection and custodianship

I’m embarking on a new collaborative research project that deals with a part of the USA I haven’t studied much. #Skystorians , what are your favorite books and articles about #envhist , science, and technology in the Mountain West/PNW?

(This project is mostly about Idaho.)

15 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2026 - Columbia University Press Blog Celebrates Black voices, recognize Black contributions to literature and culture, and reflect on ongoing struggles with this Black history booklist.

Shop our curated booklist celebrating Black voices and contributions to literature and culture. The list spans history, criticism, social justice, and the ongoing work of preservation and equity. Use code BHM for 20% off before it ends. buff.ly/KGfMlHe #BHM @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Canberra's museum of everyday objects from ancient history It doesn't look like much from the outside, but the inside of the Australian National University Classics Museum in Canberra is akin to peering into the cupboards of a kitchen from 2,000 years ago.

Great to see the ANU Classics Museum and the work of Prof Elizabeth Minchin and Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney featured on ABC News! 🏛️🏺

"The collection has all the latest interior decor, gadgets and gizmos during ancient Greek and Roman times ... akin to peering into a kitchen cupboard 2,000 years ago"

This will only take you five minutes (or less) and it helps us tremendously! Have a squiz: tally.so/r/vGyqVg

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. One cause ys a systematic devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of informed citizens.

Layers of information in an archival document:

- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...

English actress Ellen Terry born #OTD 1847, painted as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent in 1888; her acclaimed emerald dress by aesthetic designer Alice Comyns Carr shimmered with iridescent wings of 1,000 jewel beetles.
Tate Museum | Smallhythe, National Trust

I loathed group assignments as a student, but I gotta say... now that I'm on the other side of the room, I see how valuable they are not only for encouraging collaboration, but for building community

Especially as campus social spaces are replaced by profit generators and "flexible study areas"

"Just because collaborative abilities are not as easy to assess, that doesn’t make them any less important ... If universities stop mandating collaboration, they will no longer be valuing the very 'empathic muscles' that make us human"

Insightful piece by @jasonmlodge.bsky.social 👇🏽

As #BlackHistoryMonth draws to a close: Mickalene Thomas's Les Trois Femmes Noire, her interpretation of Manet's Luncheon on the Grass.

Poster showing a truck loaded with old clothes in India.

We are thrilled to announce that the ninth installment of our open-access online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live. It offers a dialogue on human nature and the origins of environmental degradation, taking inspiration from tradition and Indigenous practices.

springs-rcc.org

#envhum #envhist

Due out in many markets 24 March (but not North America, stay tuned for word on a future US/Canada edition), my very very short book on the PRC in the Xi era--deeply grateful to Minh Bui Jones for many things, Rana Mitter for his Intro, & Tania B, Cindy Y, David M & Victor M for the blurbs

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

As we move into spring, we’re spotlighting the latest titles shaping MUP’s Art History list. This year’s books push the field forward with work that explores displacement, ecology, resistance, and the politics of visual culture.

Shop the latest titles: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

Book cover of Spontaneous Objects by Rebecca Zorach, showing ammonite fossils (spiral shells) in different colors on a pink background

And...it's here! Thanks @psupress.bsky.social

So excited to see this out! My essay entitled “Between Pleasure and Precarity” is included in this issue! The article tells stories about migrant gender/sexual non conforming workers. If you like my essay, you are in for some treats! I am writing a book about these workers’ cruising practices!

Step inside the world of one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer.

This February, enjoy the book at 70% off using the code FLASH70 at checkout. Offer valid for UK customers until 28 February.

Buy now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167606/