The Short Title Catalogue turns 25! We had some wonderful celebrations on Monday. We sniffed a German book under the expert guidance of @svanimpe.bsky.social, got chocolates and declared our love to early modern books #bookhistory

Thanks to Deutsche Bahn, one gets to unexpected places. I have always wanted to see Neuss (set ablaze by Alessandro Farnese in July 1586), I just did not think it would be on my way from Belgium to Mainz 🤔

For those visiting Antwerp (esp. those of you attending for the Women&Household in Book Trade conference next week) do not forget to go and visit this library gem as well! #bookhistory

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

📢 CfP | Rethinking Sacred Images as the “Book of the Illiterate”: An Early Modern, Global & Auditory Perspective 📍 Academia Belgica, Rome | 🗓️ 4–5 June 2026 ⏰ Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 🔗 cdn.ymaws.com/www.rsa.org/... #Earlymodern

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a... #skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory

After many years, I finally made it to Simancas #archivalheaven

TextDiving in Valladolid (birthplace of Philip II). Great scholarly conversations, as well as Jesuits and their early modern books!

In true early modern style, thanks to cross-channel mobility and a smuggling operation in Leuven, I am now the proud owner of this badge. 👏🙏 to @onslies.bsky.social

Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

How is your monday going? I just tried to make coffee without adding water

Ingenious use of woodcuts that overlap typeset text in this 1588 edition, visually reproducing old inscriptions found on funerary stones, altars & Capitoline Tables, carefully rendering letters but also the erosion, fractures & surface damage of their material supports. #rarebooks #bookhistory

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

After looking at some beautiful books in the newly opened museum of the Royal library in Brussels, we also enjoyed some beautiful pastries, post-conference #bookhistory

Next Thomas Wallnig introducing @pcpsce.bsky.social and the aim to experiment with bibliographical datasets for Central-Europe

Next very own @cerl-community.bsky.social Marian Lefferts on the need for comprehensive documentation for the different national databases #bibliography #bookhistory

Next is series of short presentations. Renaud Adam explains how archives (council of Troubles as a case) can help as sources for bibliographies #yayarchives

Heleen Wyffels on creating authority records for women printers in Short Title Catalogue Flanders #STCV25years #women #feministbibliography

Back at @cerl-community.bsky.social conference in beautiful Brussels (after a small hiccup this morning). In time for paper by Alyssa Steiner on Incunabula Short Title Catalogue #bookhistory

Christian Scheidegger makes a convincing case for a local retrospective bibliography, and why it needs to be made it available as a database online #bookhistory #digital

Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory

Happy birthday to Short Title Catalogue Flanders! Heleen Wyffels opens the @cerl-community.bsky.social conference on mapping Knowledge at Royal Library in Brussels #25yearsSTCV

Check out this #CfP #historyofknowledge

📅 Morgen 👉 ‘Van marge naar middelpunt’: onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals over de studie naar vrouwen uit de periode tussen 1500-1800, van Amalia van Solms tot naamloze vrouwen uit archieven. 🕔 17:00 | 📍 SPUI25 of online 🔗 spui25.nl/programma/va...

Vroegmoderne vrouwen: verleden tijd? Allerminst! Tijdens 'Van marge naar middelpunt' blikken onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals terug én vooruit op vrouwengeschiedenis in erfgoed & wetenschap. 📅 4 juni | 17:00 | SPUI25 Info & aanmelden 👉 buff.ly/b94pHFs

Anniversary!!! SO CAKE! But also definitely: special issue! It'd be great to hear from people working directly on the #LowCountries, but also those who have accidentally stumbled upon the Low Countries and figured how fascinating they are. Do send in your pitches, #SkyStorians #EarlyModern

We launched our latest issue on Early Modern Women in the Low Countries at Columbia University in New York. Give us a follow or tell your friends to follow us, this week we will post about the articles in the issue. So stay tuned! www.emlc-journal.org

*New University History Fellowship!* Are you interested in university history? Do you want to explore the history of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and its collections? Apply for this new #fellowship that we managed to create with support of the University Library and the Descartes Center!

As Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room, I discussed my work on the prized Fagel collection with Dr Ann-Marie Hansen. You can listen to it now: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr... #bookhistory #libraries

Come do a PhD with Andreas Stynen and me! On witchcraft heritage and historical culture in the Low Countries since 1800 (excellent knowledge of Dutch is essential) #hextag www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

📢 JOB OPENING 📢 I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live! This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

PhD vacancy in Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones at the University of Amsterdam - please share with anyone who might be interested! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3502...

We blazen onze rubriek 'Het favoriete geschiedenisboek van…' na héle lange tijd nieuw leven in. Welke geschiedenisliefhebber of historicus wil het stokje oppakken? (wie het eerst komt…) historiek.net/geschiedenis...

Another #Fagel update: one for #medicine #histscience crowd. I came across a manuscript list of items that apothecaries in the frontier cities of Dutch Republic and those joining the army of Maurice of Nassau had to have. It includes a range of different ointments, herbs, oils, etc. #earlymodern

Exciting #bookhistory discovery in the Fagel collection: a new Constanter! This copy was acquired by the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens in 1650

Delighted to one of the visiting fellows at Trinity Long Room Hub. Stay tuned for some regular #bookhistory updates from the Fagel library at Trinity. www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Een herinnering dat we voor het HisGIS.nl project twee vacatures open hebben staan: * Coördinator vrijwilligers (vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...) * 2x Student Assistent (vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...) Solliciteren kan tot 20/1/2025

Look at this *delight* of a #LowCountries programme for @ihr.bsky.social! 🤩 So many faves! @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Jazmine Contreras & Nicolaas Barr, Heleen Wyffels @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social and Danny Noorlander Fridays 5:30 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

De deadline nadert, je hebt nog tot 15 december om te solliciteren.

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900. The CfP for the event is now open. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Leuke uitdaging! Wie komt ons helpen met een super nummer rond vrouwen in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden? (Oh, ja, stiekem dat leuke nieuws dan ook meegegeven: wordt een top volume!)

One of the best uses of a vending machine (if you ask me): fresh coffee beans 😍😍😍

Some #earlymodern wisdom from the printers Verdussen in Antwerp to power you through the day "corte rekeningen maecken lange vrintscappen' (short bills make for long friendships) #bookhistory

Really enjoyed listing to this episode on the Venetian Empire, with @maartjevg.bsky.social as one of the expert guests! open.spotify.com/episode/2DQR...

Just received the message from our Publisher Aschendorff that our anthology about "The Diplomatic Self in Early Modern Times" is now available Open Access. For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern diplomacy and questions of self-fashioning, have a look here: doi.org/10.17438/978...

I also coordinate the Fellowship Programme of Het Scheepvaartmuseum, for which we currently have a call open. Find more about our programme on our website, and feel free to get in touch if you have questions!

Wil je graag ervaring opdoen bij een wetenschappelijke tijdschrift? Wij zijn op zoek naar een redactie-assistent (+/- 4 uur per week). Meer informatie over taken en je profiel in onze vacaturetekst. #Skystorians #Spreadtheword