It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Ellen Robertson, a Book History MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social, has written on her fascinating research on a book of metrical psalms with extensive manuscript annotations held in the Special Collections @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/19/s...

"EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!" Catch up on the news from the @universalstc.bsky.social annual conference on 'Newspapers and Periodicals', which took place in June 2025, with our newest blog by @zbrookman.bsky.social (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant). ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-20...

'Well, sir, learn to jest in good time; there's time for all things'-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors ☛ New on the blog: ‘By a Lover of Ha, Ha, He’: Jest Books in a Cambridge Auction Catalogue by Anna Grace Gragg (MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social) 🃏📖😆 ustc.ac.uk/news/by-a-lo...

The call for papers for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open! The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025. Any inquiries can be directed to Dr Arthur der Weduwen.

388 years ago TODAY, a chair was thrown at the Bishop of Edinburgh as he read from a book during a service. Riots followed shortly afterwards. In our latest blog, MLitt student William Lewis explores the book at the heart of the storm: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/a-war-o...

In our latest blog, MLitt student Ellen Robertson examines works that were promised by the catalogues of the Frankfurt Book Fair, but not always delivered. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ellen-r...

The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li...

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals! #CfP #bookhistory #skystorians

📚Explore the storied lives of Suffolk's parochial library collections in a new blog post: 'Non mihi sed omnibus: Suffolk’s Last Parochial Libraries' by current MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social Emily Wildish.📚 #bookhistory #libraryhistory #collectionhistory ustc.ac.uk/news/non-mih...

Our conference on News and Periodicals is underway with a panel on Political News Cultures! #USTC25

Our 2025 conference on Newspapers and Periodicals is underway with our hybrid workshop! #USTC25

Emma Caster, MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social, explores the career of the German printer, Wolfgang Stöckel (Müller) in a new blog entitled: 'Struggles and Strifes of a Reformation Printer: Printers and Debt in Germany' ustc.ac.uk/news/struggl... #bookhistory #Reformationhistory #earlymodern

Ahoy there! New blog post! Demi van Breukelen, master's student @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social & visiting researcher @standrewshist.bsky.social explores: 🌊'A Sea of Print: Printed Treasures in the Dutch Prize Papers Collection' ustc.ac.uk/news/a-sea-o... #printhistory #earlymodern #maritimehistory

Ahoy there! New blog post! Demi van Breukelen, master's student @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social & visiting researcher @standrewshist.bsky.social explores: 🌊'A Sea of Print: Printed Treasures in the Dutch Prize Papers Collection' ustc.ac.uk/news/a-sea-o... #printhistory #earlymodern #maritimehistory

The eighth issue of USTC Library Quarterly is out now! You can download it and subscribe here: ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... This special issue is a collaboration with the COMLAWEU project.

Some fabulous discoveries here from the National Library in Edinburgh.

#HabemusPapam Read all about the early modern conclave and papal election process in this post about rare surviving printed sheets from seventeenth-century conclaves.

Wrote a little blog about some fascinating printed conclave documents I came across in the @natlibscot.bsky.social! 🗝️ Many thanks to the cataloguers of their Special Collections for documenting these objects so diligently!

CONCLAVE! 🗝️ As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave

Gitika Sanjay, student of Modern History & Economics @standrewshist.bsky.social, explores the archival traces of a 18th-century text in a new post on our blog-'In Defence of ‘Abominable Practice’: Thomas Cannon’s Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d'!📜 ustc.ac.uk/news/in-defe...

How does one learn practical skills from a book? Why were how-to books so popular in the early modern period, who used them and how, and can they even be considered a clearly defined genre? Find out the answer to these and other questions in our edited volume: brill.com/display/titl...

Cheers to a new blog!🍷 'Cheap Wine: A Warring Man’s Priority' by Zina Gharakhani, MLitt student in Early Modern and Reformation History @standrewshist.bsky.social 🍇 Explore wine industry regulations in Hapsburg Prague during the reign of Rudolf II. #earlymodern www.ustc.ac.uk/news/cheap-w...

We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

🎺HEAR YE, HEAR YE: We are happy announce our latest post, 'The Fabric of Everyday Life: Sumptuary Laws in Early Modern France', written by @cmfgillain.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher on the Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 project! Read all about it: ustc.ac.uk/news/the-fab...

'the moneth of March, which entreth like a Lion 🦁, but goeth out like a Lamb 🐑.’ 🌬Today’s windy weather in Scotland, where the @universalstc.bsky.social is based, shows some truth in this saying. And we certainly hope that the second part holds up as the end of March approaches!

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

We're excited to reach 1,000 followers (and counting) on Bluesky! In honour of this milestone, we'd like to share our catalogued edition with the USTC no. 1000: Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye Lyon, Etienne Baland et Jean Rocher, 1510 www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/1000

As Spring approaches, it's the perfect time to plan this year's garden.🌳🌹🪴🌷 In our latest blog post, Book History MLitt student, William Lewis, offers Scottish garden inspiration in ‘A Scottish Country Garden: Horticultural Handbooks in a 1700 Edinburgh Book Auction’ ustc.ac.uk/news/a-scott...

Did you know that Saint Valentine is the patron saint of love, romance, and… bees? Wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at the JCB! Source: Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662 The reformed common-wealth of bees. D655 H332r americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...

In need of a love poem for your amour today? 💌 Look no further - this blog from the USTC archives explores a book of romantic poetry by Jean Bouchet, Les angoisses et remeds d’amours (The agonies and remedies of love), which was popular in sixteenth-century France. ustc.ac.uk/news/valenti...

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

Our very own @ciaokatet.bsky.social with a fantastic seminar this evening on Italian printed prayers!

In anticipation of St Brigid's day & the start of spring (a bit optimistic perhaps, but that's us), irises from L'Obel's Icones Stirpium, printed in 1591 and then coloured by hand #StBrigidsDay #Spring

When it comes to popular print, mathematical books probably won’t be your port of call. Yet, as @jamesafox.bsky.social explores in our latest blog, they could become bestsellers: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/when-ma... #maths #numbers #bookhistory

We are thrilled to present the term card for the upcoming edition of our #earlymodern PG workshop! Featuring speakers from all along the East Coast of Scotland and across the Irish Sea! All sessions are HYBRID and open to students of all levels, so DM us if you'd like to be kept in the loop!

[GrECI on Europeana] Discover the first gallery: Books printed in Greek in the sixteenth century The GrECI project is proud to showcase its work on the Europeana platform and the 4 created galleries which show the different aspects approached by the research team. @europeana.bsky.social

In our latest blog, our very own Mhairi Winfield dives into the fascinating history of #Polish books in American libraries! Check it out here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/early-m... #bookhistory #skystorians #libraries

In our latest blog, Laura Incollingo examines how the Italian authorities used print to regulate that most important of commodities: #wine. Check it out here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/in-vino...

Congratulations @mzukovs.bsky.social!!!

Some highlights from the Staatsarchiv Zürich: Template of a passport for foreigners coming to work on the city's fortifications (1641), gov't-set prices to buy/bind schoolbooks (1640), and a handy guide on how to treat livestock diseases (1691). Will be up on the @universalstc.bsky.social soon!

🔔 #CallforPapers for an #earlymodern #BookHistory conference: ‘Tudor England & the Antwerp Book Trade. From Tyndale to Plantin’ in Antwerp between 8-11 July 2025 to mark the 500th anniversary of the publication of Tyndale’s translations of the New Testament. Apply now! Deadline: 15 February 2025

In addition to our open-access bibliography, we regularly post about interesting early modern print in our blog series: ustc.ac.uk/news

There are just over three weeks to go until the #CfP deadline for our next conference 'Newspapers and Periodicals', co-organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree #USTC25 #bookhistory #newspapers

An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk