Yay! Huge congratulations!!

🎥 📚 I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments. If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost). Thank you!

Another day another photoshoot

Okay. I’ve managed to flip the document and the words “hath” and “upon” now ping out. Any other thoughts?

Who can I write to to ask some questions about a book in the Beinecke? There’s a digital surrogate but I have some outstanding queries about the binding!

Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?

Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Niche plea: does anyone have images of the binding, including pastedowns and endleaves of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IUB00496? It’s a Sammelband of 10 plays, including several by Shakespeare, all printed before 1665?

Very excited to see this published today. global.oup.com/academic/pro... I have a chapter on “medieval inheritance”. Huge congrats to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe for marshalling this beast into print!

Does anyone have easily to hand: William Proctor Williams, 'F1 Coriolanus Fragment Found in 17th Century Binding', Shakespeare Newsletter 16 (1966)?

Daborne’d FiL’s gaff yours for £1mill www.inigo.com/sales-list/s...

Capital holiday

Meanwhile here’s a picture of a Chinese restaurant in a building (c. 1738-40) that was once housed Bristol library (founded 1613)

Has anyone else noticed Google has become less reliable and effective, especially when “phrase searching”, since prioritising AI?

Niche request: I’m looking for examples of Gerard Langaine (elder, Provost of Queen’s, Keeper of Archives) hand. @matthewshaw.bsky.social can you help?

Does www.memslib.co.uk still exist? @drdavidrundle.bsky.social

Are you a researcher 5+ years post-PhD and interested in moving to Ireland? We have a new scheme which will support relocation and start-up costs.

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Favourite (only) granny would have been 100 today.

Favourite (only) granny would have been 100 today.

@queenscollegeox.bsky.social Let’s party like it’s 1969

So glad to be a part of this (brilliantly edited) special issue

Extremely specific question, but has anyone found copy-specific info on SOLO disappears if the book has been ordered (by you or anyone else)?

Marking season 2025 brought to you by Remy (and many cups of coffee)

Quick poll: which libraries in the US or UK have the most detailed and/or most comprehensively catalogued copy-specific info for early modern books?

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

Manuscript, print, and binding waste. Thanks @mlvarila.bsky.social and @saranorja.bsky.social for all your work shepherding this special issue of @srsrensoc.bsky.social Renaissance Studies: doi.org/10.1111/rest...

Love and am intrigued by this photo taken in Paris in the late 1940s. Dude on the right is my mother’s uncle; couple in the middle are my father’s uncle and aunt. Have no idea what they were doing or what brought them together; don’t think they had further contact until my folks married in the 70s.

I wrote a thing about a book owned by Bathsua Reginald Makin that I found in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social whilst working on their early records. earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/h... Thanks to @martinevanelk.bsky.social and @tarallyons.bsky.social for hosting #herbook

Excited to see a publication date for this mega volume edited by @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe. I have a chapter on medieval theories of authorship and Shakespeare global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Does anyone have a copy of Gwen Hampshire, The Bodleian Library Account Book to hand that could look up something for me?

In other library-related queries, can anyone recommend any reading on the Selden extension of the Bodleian 1634-7? I guess I want to know how full it was in the period before Selden’s bequest. Like did Selden’s 8000 books put pressure on accommodation?

People who do things with Shakespeare and books, I keep turning up refs to a packet of “superfluous library books” sold in 1664 to Richard Davis, an Oxford bookseller, but not sure where the original ref occurs. Presumably Bodleian Library Records? Anyone @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social able to help?

Her book. Seemingly the childish hand of the scholar, educator and linguist Bathsua Reginald Makin, born 1600. Fittingly, here her book was a multilingual dictionary, bound in vellum, a proper unit.

Im looking at some early Bodleian press marks unlike any I’ve seen before, e.g. 8o Arch. 1 Th (8o B.1 Th. would be more typical). Would the Arch here refer to “Archives”, i.e. Arch.F in the library’s east end? @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Applications are comin' in quickly, but there's still some room in my Descriptive Bibliography class this Aug. @calrbs.bsky.social. If you'd benefit from better understanding how early European books were printed—and from locking down key concepts such as edition, issue, & impression—join us!

We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!

Hidden corners of @queenscollegeox.bsky.social

Two shy new householders. Top tips for promoting bonding and cuddles?

Sander Guyzœns?

The ghost of productions past

Have overcome the mental block of planning conference travel and am all booked for RSA. Yippee

Does anyone have a copy of Incipitarium Ovidianum to hand and can tell me the number of extant medieval witnesses (incl. fragments) to the Heroides? @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social?

How flooded is Port Meadow / river paths right now? Suitable for walking with aged parents?

My snowy Oxford photo inexplicably gathered 20k likes over there. So here’s one here, with slanting light.

Morning Oxford

A what to “carry the books”?

Who’s heading to Chicago for RSA this year?

Does anyone have thoughts what a “load” of peat would look like in 1596?