Turns out not being able to access your dms because of not having done the age verification thing doesn’t stop anyone else from messaging you. I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...

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...

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

Day two of conference two this week, and I’m happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chetham’s

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

The walk through Hyde Park isn’t a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube

My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the “best and most useful books for each faculty and science” in his public library for Dublin. @marshslibrary.bsky.social #BuiltWithBooks Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴‍☠️

The classic case of going into a draft specifically to cut words and somehow ending up with a net gain of several hundred words.

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: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳 #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

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.

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]

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

A few allotment joys from this evening’s session, ft. rudbeckia from my mother in law, a compost slow worm and lots of blackberries

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.

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:

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!

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!

A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!

The beautiful first issue of #RenSoc2025 ‘s very own newspaper, printed on the Bristol Common Press! Issue 2 will be type set tomorrow, with delegates invited to suggest material!

Published now open access ✨️ 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...

Packed in haste: what have I forgotten?

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...

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).

The garden is awash with roses, along with my camera roll

We can agree that shorts are acceptable conference wear no?

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

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...

News articles on a repossessed bar in Exeter recount how Thom Yorke once played a gig there—I don’t 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 Exeter’s early book auctioneers in the 1720s.

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.

Furiously highlighting simultaneous panels in the programme and worrying how I’ll 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.

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.

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.

Took some trains, saw some mountains, would recommend

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.

Join the @materialwills.bsky.social project in Exeter on Wed 18 June, 6.30pm, for a FREE PERFORMANCE 🎵🎸🎹 An evening of songs & stories inspired by early modern wills 📜 Sign up below: ✍️ #History #Skystorians #EarlyModern @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Given how universities are going, at this point I'm holding out for a nice, eighteenth-century church living (plus conscientious curate) that lets me get on with writing obscure antiquarian papers for the local learned society.

Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Looking forward to some visits to The London Archives, The National Archives, the Borthwick Institute, Carlisle and Essex archives in the coming weeks. With time for a look-up or two if anyone is in need. 🗃️ #Skystorians

ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜

ESTC klaxon! #BookHistory #EarlyModern

The Lake District in bluebell season is not a disappointment

Birthday beach visit

Drop in to Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 15 May between 11am-1pm for a nautical themed exploration of the collections in our Library & Archives. Discover stories about marine life, mermaids, pirates, shipwrecks and the coastal landscape of the South West. www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Some background on the work of Hereford Cathedral librarians in bringing the letter fragment to notice

'The fragment was preserved by accident in the binding of a book in Hereford Cathedral’s library.' www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Yesterday was potato day at the allotment (we’d planned for it to be today, but changed our minds when we saw how much rain was coming in)

PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September). Please spread the word!