On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.

I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but..... #Irishdiaspora #IrishinSpain #diasporicbooks #exlibris #Mallorca

Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland! #ScottishprintontheContinent #Edinburghprinttrade #Ciutadella

Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella. #Englishbooksonthecontinent

From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca. #manuscriptculture #mallorca #glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting

With another Canadian, in Coruña.

C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is? #18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain? #condesdeOsuna #LazaroGaliano #miniatures #womenandbookhistory

And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.

From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism." The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries! #AphraBehn #diasporicreaders #recusants #Jesuits

From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness. #humbledbyatinyhand

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉

Thinking on this Women's Day about my English grandmother, Winnie Howes, who, in 1917, attained a new freedom by enlisting in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Thinking, too, about the story that, appalled by their lack of femininity, other women spat on the Corps when they saw them in the streets.

Catalan history for IWD! Founded in 1909 by Francesca Bonnemaison (after whom it is now named), the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona, part of a wider effort to open continuing education to women, was Europe's first women's library. Closed in 1936, it reopened as part of the Espai Bonnemaison in 2004.

Don't skimp on editors -- or coffee!

You can see some other examples of surviving Joug Collars in one of our recent blogs, along with some other information about this form of coercive social control exerted by Scottish Kirk Sessions in the 17th and 18th centuries 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-pla... #IronWorkThursday

Our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek this week is Spott Parish Church in East Lothian. At its door you will find an historic "Joug Collar", in which the Kirk Session would tether those they deemed sinners to humiliate them as their friends and neighbours filed past. #IronworkThursday

The journal Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo (University of Cádiz) is seeking articles for its 2026 issue on "Censorship in 18th century Spain". Full details here: revistas.uca.es/index.php/ci...

In your opinion, what’s a cover version of a song that not only holds up to the original but wildly exceeds it? Here’s mine: youtu.be/yXNJnUbv7OA?...

Just a bit of censorship in an often bawdy book which once belonged to a recusant collection in Spain, in the seventeenth century. Crossed out: "On Rome. Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread, Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:" The second half of the epigram is untouched!

Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...

From the back of a 1616 Ben Jonson folio; or the moment a C18 person wonders why we now sometimes get called #earlymodernists. This stuff is worse than Boswell!

Somebody got to look at the #Valladolid folio. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. #recusants #censorship #Shakespeare #HolyOffice #DiasporicBooks #cutslikeaknife #MeasureforMeasure #KingLear #FolgerFinds

If AI could do any one useful thing, it would be reading whatever's been crossed out, smudged, torn or singed. #stillwaiting #BenJonson #DuquesdeOsuna #Madrid #EnglishPrintinSpain

In Part 1 of "All Fellowships are Connected," a C18 recipe for "Spanish Olio" attributed to George Keith, who also sent recipes to the Boswells: the Folger meets the Beinecke! Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo. #FolgerFinds #cocido #ollapodrida

Priced at 125 pesetas by a twentieth-century bookseller (Vindel?) and donated to the Folger by a German-born collector. No marginalia in Spanish yet! #FolgerFinds #Shakespeare #EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain

post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article "Whatever the case, Portugal's special relationship with *Othello* most likely begins not with French mediation, but with a Portuguese reader of English print." (doi.org/10.1093/note...)

The Universitat de Barcelona has advertised three tenure-track posts in English literature, two in the very ambiguously worded "literatura moderna i contemporània" (the advertisement is in Catalan). To see the posts--two out of 226!--you'll need to open the third PDF. tinyurl.com/mtv6y4ak

#postdoc #jobklaxon #linguistics #psycholinguistics #languageacquisition Join my colleagues at the UVALAL 🚨 at Universidad de Valladolid They are offering a 3 year postdoc position at the University of Valladolid.

Quote and tell me (because I'm always curious about what people are reading): what are you reading just now that you would recommend? I am only 50 pages into Peter Burke's *Ignorance*: I will be a bit dodgy and report that his *Exiles and Expatriates* was my right book at the right time. #diasporas

1. Portrait of John Geddes, Rector of the RSC, now at the RCSA, #Valladolid: lower left. 2. Part of the Royal #Scots College library (now in #Salamanca), much of which bears notes in Geddes's hand. Same books? Same binding? #bookhistory #ScotsinSpain #SigloXVIII #eighteenthcentury #18thcentury

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) English print and diasporic readerships in 18th-century Spain; 2) Adapting Rasselas as a miniseries (dir. M Winterbottom?)

Storing bound books was done backwards, as #bookhistory knows. The difference to nowadays trends like #backwardsbooks is that #earlymodern users had reasons to do this beyond fashion: shelving your book fore-edge outwards avoided damage of the spine. Spine titles were uncommon in these days. 7/7

#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

I posted in September about the dregs of a/some C18 trading house library (-ies?) in Alacant/Alicante: the photos never uploaded! Here we go again. This John Bell King Lear made it to Spain in its original wrappers. #Shakespeare #KingLear #bookhistory #eighteenthcentury #C18 #niceworkifyoucangetit

My BlueSky is now as populous as the Other Place (my feed, that is), so I'd best re-introduce myself! I once introduced myself to an academic board as the unlikely Spanish delegate: I'm a Spanish academic of Canadian origin working on English-language print in Spain in the long eighteenth century.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #919,479!

Quick query: I have two overlapping pdfs and need to identify all the exactly matching paragraphs. Does Acrobat collate? If not, what does?

From the Barcelona ISECS early career seminar earlier this month, @susannah-sm.bsky.social with Ananya Kabir of KCL and Heena Goswami of U Delhi. Sorry not to have any good photos of Susannah's great talk , "Ruination, Chronic Illness, and Networks of Care in the Long Eighteenth Century."

DEP Teófanes Egido Any attempt to summarize his legacy and his character falls short. A good man, wise, humble, sarcastic, warm, hard-working, master, reference, and pillar for generations of scholars. From today, history becomes a bit more orphaned. You'll be sorely missed.

I'm pleased to announce the open-access publication of *La censura en la España del siglo XVIII* (Ediciones Trea), featuring my article "Cesáreo de Nava Palacio: English Sources, Censorship, and Strategies of Professional Enhancement in an Old-Regime Literary System. #censorship #EnglishtoSpanish

Wikipedia on #Shakespeare in #Spain, pre-1801. The book-historical data is a jumble, lacks citations, and some of it is news to me (probably, false). Is this what students rely on? Are we teaching them to recognise the signs of weak #Wikipedia material?

From the old Colegio de los Irlandeses in #Salamanca, what's left of John #Dryden's *The Spanish Friar*. Not much! #censorship #recusants #IrishinSpain

So this very funny thing happened to my research on Twitter. Funny, odd, at least.

Want to spend a week at UCLA talking about critical approaches to bibliography and book history? You can still apply to take my course in August! (This is everything I wished I learned at Virginia Rare Book School) www.calrbs.org/2024-courses/

Today I am a press release. web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

Ppl, I need help with this weird question.

The Bola Doce Mirandesa looks a lot like a babka. In Miranda do Douro, Portugal.

My daughter is considering an undergraduate programme in the Netherlands. I am canvassing for info and advice on housing, transportation, social happiness and health insurance. BlueSky, work your magic.

Interested in early modern merchants, 18th century letters, the materiality of a business archive, Atlantic trade, France, Hamburg, maritime neutrality, the Prize Papers or microhistory? My book was republished last month by transcript in Open Access. #earlymodern 🗃️ www.degruyter.com/document/doi...