Anna-Lujz Gilbert
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book history | digital humanities | early modern
Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and whichāafter initial banishmentāreappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.
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Distressed, today, to find that happenstantial is not a word, when it very clearly should be.
18 days ago
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library
18 days ago
Just in time for
#GreenLibrariesWeek
, a new LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
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Realised that itās now been longer since submitting my thesis than I spent writing it. More or less managing to suppress worries about what I should have achieved in that time with the thought of how happy 2021 Anna would have been to know she would get to work on a couple more projects.
19 days ago
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My two modes of writing: 1) what an exquisite sentence, you clever girl 2) your ideas are too POOR, your knowledge too WEAK, your prose INSUFFICIENT (see also, rereading past work)
about 1 month ago
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Melissa Terras
about 1 month ago
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years,
@designinf.bsky.social
, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/13221
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Have to say Iām very much here for people-giving-away-their-windfall-apples season. No photo because Iāve been too busy eating the things.
about 1 month ago
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Is there a German word for the joy of unexpectedly finding a trove of new archival evidence and simultaneously the dread of having to somehow account for it in an already overflowing article youād āfinishedā doing the primary research for?
about 1 month ago
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A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle
about 1 month ago
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Procrastinating (never!) by browsing books in the library. Hereās a copy of Lewis Morrisās The Epic of Hades that was gifted in 1901 by Marie Muller to Ernest Newlandsmith, who would quote from it in The Temple of Art (1904). Then gifted to the Exeter University library by a Mrs W Wordsworth.
about 1 month ago
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āTis the season for getting home and finding oneās pockets mysteriously full of perfect conkers
about 1 month ago
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Can anyone help me with an eighteenth century history question? If a clergyman writes c. 1730 that they do not have money for a license from their parish or college (they're a Fellow), what kind of license would this be? Marriage?
about 2 months ago
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Cambridge student Ambrose Bonwicke, writing to his father about a prospective room mate in 1711: āHe ... is genteel enough in his dialect, being neither a northern nor western lad, out of which two quarters bad dialects usually comeā
about 2 months ago
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Turns out not being able to access your dms because of not having done the age verification thing doesnāt stop anyone else from messaging you. Iāve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead?
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about 2 months ago
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Erin A. McCarthy
about 2 months ago
Join the
@stemma.bsky.social
team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below.
#earlymodern
#dh
#postdoc
#jobfairy
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
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011345 - University of Galway
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resources/links/011345/
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Timothy Twining
about 2 months ago
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.
#earlymodern
#skystorians
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Day two of conference two this week, and Iām happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chethamās
2 months ago
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Day two of the Built With Books conference
@livesandletters.bsky.social
! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England
2 months ago
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The walk through Hyde Park isnāt a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube
2 months ago
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2 months ago
My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the ābest and most useful books for each faculty and scienceā in his public library for Dublin.
@marshslibrary.bsky.social
#BuiltWithBooks
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates š“āā ļø
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The classic case of going into a draft specifically to cut words and somehow ending up with a net gain of several hundred words.
3 months ago
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John Rylands Research Institute and Library
3 months ago
We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here:
www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post:
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Rylands BlogIntroducing the Early European PrintĀ collection
John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections
https://ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH
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Dr. Liz Fischer
3 months ago
Author copies arrived today! šš„³
#dh
#bookhistory
#medievalsky
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Dipping back into some book provenance notes in preparation for the
@livesandletters.bsky.social
Built With Books conference and have quickly become stuck trying to disentangle the thicket that is the social networks of book owners c. 1600.
3 months ago
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures)
4 months ago
ā¼ļøNext year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.ā¼ļø We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!š
#REBPAF
#MSCA
#REBPAFConference
#CfP
#BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]
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Got to love* a HR exit survey all about wanting to understand my decision to leave when I'm actually at the end of a fixed term contract. *not love
4 months ago
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A few allotment joys from this eveningās session, ft. rudbeckia from my mother in law, a compost slow worm and lots of blackberries
4 months ago
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Database documentation time, which means I am once again trying to answer the "what is a book?" question (as far as it's modelled in the data!!). Made more complex in this project by the fact we're drawing on different datasets which model books in different ways.
4 months ago
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Society for Renaissance Studies
4 months ago
WHAT A WEEK! An utter delight to see so many
#EarlyModern
'ists chatting, thinking, discussing together in beautiful Bristol. So many conversations started and ideas sparked. If you're looking for people you met, we tried to update the starter pack of
#RenSoc25
delegates:
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Hello Bluesky, in September I'll be out of contract and would be grateful to hear of any potential teaching (early modern lit) or research (with archives, rare books, humanities data) work. I'm based in SW England. Thank you!
4 months ago
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Returning from
#RenSoc25
brimming over with early modern goodness, in awe of the incredible research being presented, and buoyed up by the collegiality and community in such abundant evidence, despite everything. A huge thank you to the organisers!
4 months ago
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Grace Murray
4 months ago
A blockbuster day at
#RenSoc25
, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars ā thank you
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, &
@walla7437.bsky.social
for chairing our panel on microgeographies!
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The beautiful first issue of
#RenSoc2025
ās very own newspaper, printed on the Bristol Common Press! Issue 2 will be type set tomorrow, with delegates invited to suggest material!
4 months ago
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Kate Ozment
4 months ago
Published now open access āØļø Scholars have invented men to explain away women's labor in the British print trades. In this ex, a misgendering travels from a catalog to WorldCat and Amazon. It shows how linked data's fragmentation perpetuates old assumptions.
oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
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Packed in haste: what have I forgotten?
4 months ago
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Henrike LƤhnemann
4 months ago
Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
. Pls advertise,
@oxmedstud.bsky.social
@bkhistoxford.bsky.social
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher ā Oxford Medieval Studies
https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-libraries-of-great-britain-project-researcher/
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If you're coming to the Continental Books (CEBEME) panel at
#RenSoc25
on Friday afternoon, you'll get a sneak preview of our project website (developed by Annie Zheng at Manchester using the Sampo-UI framework).
4 months ago
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The garden is awash with roses, along with my camera roll
4 months ago
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We can agree that shorts are acceptable conference wear no?
4 months ago
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Will Rossiter
4 months ago
Posting again for Monday morning. Lecturer (fixed term) in Medieval & Early Modern Literature sought here in the School of Lit, Drama & Creative Writing at UEA. Email me (address in ad) with any queries. Please share widely.
#skystorians
#medievalsky
#earlymodern
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Professor Claire Jowitt
5 months ago
Job! Fixed-term, 1 year lecturer in Med/Ren Lit at UEA (covering the fellowship of
@satyrane.bsky.social
) ... it's a lovely, friendly School ...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
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News articles on a repossessed bar in Exeter recount how Thom Yorke once played a gig thereāI donāt know how they missed the fact that it was built to replace the WW2 destroyed pub nearby which I _think_ was the one which was next door to one of Exeterās early book auctioneers in the 1720s.
5 months ago
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John Gallagher
5 months ago
Has anyone written on the auctioning of goods (especially of the dead) in London in the first half of the seventeenth century? Interested in the work of criers, how estates are sold off etc.
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Furiously highlighting simultaneous panels in the programme and worrying how Iāll choose which one to go to before realising that one of the panels in that session actually involves me, so I should probably go to it.
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5 months ago
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I was wondering where a flurry of new follows had come from! Most excited for SRS next week, and a little overwhelmed by the number of amazing sounding papers in the programme.
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5 months ago
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On a related note, was joking with my partner about using the "notes on contributors" bit for an upcoming article (where people usually give their affiliation) to advertise my availability for work instead.
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5 months ago
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Took some trains, saw some mountains, would recommend
5 months ago
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Abs Ashley
5 months ago
Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History: 3 year postdoc at Bristol
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...
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Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History on jobs.ac.uk!
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/senior-research-associate-plants-enslavement-and-public-history
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The Society of Antiquaries of London
5 months ago
Our Curatorial Research Assistant is surveying our prints & drawings collection to uncover just how many we have to be officially catalogued. So far over 40,000 prints & drawings have been found, with the total estimate around 55,000! We're looking forward to seeing what gems will be found.
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