Guy Sechrist, PhD

Writing advice I wasn't asked to give: Never finish a piece of writing in the evening. Leave a little bit you know you can add to the next day, in order to get you back in the flow state.

Last week we ran a 2-day workshop at the Herzog August Bibliothek on the theme of 'Body-Health-Home', featuring a host of great papers, a 17th-century salad reconstruction, and, of course, some amazing how-to books 📚

Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4800

#bookhistory #library #workshop

Oh! If not, do email me! gs558@cantab.ac.uk - I will send over a reader's copy!

From my reading of it, he understands that coopers from various regions make casks differently - he champions Austrian barrels over Rhenish barrels due to the fact that they 'gauged' easier when applying his polyhedral method.

I think this is an open link to the work: brill.com/view/journal...

Yes! Baxandall's work is amazing! One of the things I have not considered is the use of screws and bolts used by coopers when fashioning hoops around the staves.

My thesis was on barrels. Took ages until people, not all - but some, began to take my interests 'seriously'. This said, I had very supportive supervisors - which really really helped.

looking forward to seeing your work! Feel free to send stuff over to the Bulletin of Scientific Instrument Soc.

Check out @sochistnathist.bsky.social for all things, histories of natural history!

This is a truly wonderful book! I was fortunate to write a review for Archives of Natural History here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.

Spot the gaugers at work here in Philadelphia!

We are delighted to organise a book launch together with the editors of 'A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden', in Leiden itself - home to Brill since 1683!
The event will be in Dutch.
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@judithpollmann.bsky.social @peterheijkoop.bsky.social #Leiden #medievalsky

Go Birds!

Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book - YouTube This playlist is part of the project "Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book" ( https://dha.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/de/digitizing-materiality-premodern-boo...

Lang has also created a YouTube class for curators, instructors & collectors who are interested in digitizing the materiality of pre-modern books.

You can watch the full playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#HSS2025 #RareBooks #SpecColls

I am now wishing I re-wrote a line in my article on barrels and natural specimen preservation which compared the similitude of "pickled herring" in casks to pickled "exotic birds". I should have said pickled eels. Next time.

adding this to my STS course reading list! Thank you!

At last, our interests (eels and barrel gauging) come together. Sweet harmony.

Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

Are you looking to read some new scholarship over the winter? Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! Spread the word! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #sustainability #anthropocene #waterhist
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Yes - I have been meaning to write a post on it for sometime!

This reminds me of library punch cards. Cambridge got rid of them in 2018 - so I kept this as a keepsake and historiographical reminder of how these things are just as important. You might notice familiar people.

Very excited to see the proofs of my newest (newest) article for this December’s issue of the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society.

I am seeing a lot of new scholars on BlueSky! Welcome!

Autumn 2025 GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...

The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.

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Popologist here.

I'm putting together a multi-volume global history of popular music c1605-2022 and would love to hear from historians of all things – empire(s), languages, architecture, media, instruments, ye gods, etc. – with ideas for angles, intersections, inclusions. Nothing is too niche!

Exactly! I would not want to be doing anything else with my time. Very true!

Pippin with the "Pint".

This is very encouraging! Many thanks!

I am currently applying to fellowships and feel horrible for how many letters I am asking of everyone.

Glad to see this back in my feed - I use it often for my students when they ask me, "how do I know what's the most important part of a [book,chapter, article, etc] are?" This is a super great read and very useful! Thanks @tedmccormick.bsky.social

Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...

I feel very seen right now.

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