VOORLICHTING OP 20 NOVEMBER 2025 18.00-19.00, online. Meld je aan www.uva.nl/programm.../... Of vraag via een dm om de link. Vier studentvoorlichters plus de staf praten je bij. Meer over Boekwetenschap: edu.nl/uurx4

Oproep tot voordrachten voor de Menno Hertzbergerprijs 2026 voor boekwetenschappelijk onderzoek over de Lage Landen in brede zin (ook voor prentkunst en cartografie!) Nomineer een collega of jezelf voor de Prijs voor het Beste Boek of voor de Aanmoedigingsprijs. 1/8 #boekgeschiedenis #boekwetenschap

Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies

Super dress match met Trude Dijkstra vanavond bij #avondwm, de Avond van wetenschap & maatschappij waar we als tafelwetenschappers een stelling mochten inbrengen en bespreken met fantastische tafelgenoten. #boekwetenschap & #wetenschapsgeschiedenis

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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Vanaf vandaag is Koken voor kleine handen online te koop via de onderstaande link of kom vanavond een exemplaar halen op de boekpresentatie! Duik mee in de smakelijke geschiedenis van kinderkookboeken. 📚🍴 armorica.eu/product/koke...

NOS/Nieuwsuur maakte vorige week een alarmistisch item over onvrije debatcultuur aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Mirko Tobias Schäfer en ik schreven er een opiniestuk over: 'Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door linkse cancelcultuur.' dub.uu.nl/nl/opinie/un...

Binnenkort bij Uitgeverij Armorica: ‘Koken voor kleine handen’ van Sara Assarrar Een smakelijke ontdekkingsreis door 150 jaar kinderkookboeken in Nederland en België. ➡️ 1 oktober vieren we de lancering samen. Vanaf die dag ook online te bestellen 💜 #kinderkookboek #kookgeschiedenis #armorica

Als je denkt dat het niet gekker kan....de staat Iowa probeert George Orwells 1984 te verbieden. Deze klassieker werd tijdens de Koude Oorlog door de CIA de Sovjet-Unie in gesmokkeld met als doel het communistische regime te ondermijnen. Nu wordt het boek door Trump-aanhangers verguisd.

FINAL CALL! ⏰ One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship! ☟ ☟ ☟

Supertrots op dit boek van onze oude student Sara Assarrar! @uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social

Deze tot en met de verkiezingsdag blijven rondpompen a.u.b.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

'Een schok', zo omschrijft terrorisme-expert @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om Antifa als terroristische organisatie aan te merken. 'Het is een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken.' www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/

Me too!

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

Lovely view of the facade of the new University Library of the @uvahumanities.bsky.social, very fitting background when teaching our MA course 'The World in Books' #bookhistory @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

This is a wondeful book and available in Open Access!

Quite a drastic - and creepy - measure to take when a friendship has run its course. From the album amicorum of Joannes Hackaert (must have been a nice guy) [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]

Practise makes perfect! 18th-century artist manual with colour swatches [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]

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 💙📚📜

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read

The Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse soon to be lost to the sands of time near Løkken, Denmark #cantwaitfordune3 #sandblasted

Not a combination you would expect, but the Museum of the Historty of Printing and Canning in Stavanger, Norway is fantastic! #bookhistory #Iddis #doeswhatitsaysonthetin

Just realised that the 'Formosan hoax' of George Psalmanazar (a French impostor who, in the early 1700s, claimed that he was a native of Formosa (now Taiwan), even publishing a detailed but entirely fabricated account of its language, customs, and culture, was printed by Dan Brown... #bookhistory

I was recently gifted this; I have a vague idea what it is, but perhaps someone can tell me a bit more about it? #bookhistory

Our #history department at KU Leuven is again looking for a new Postdoc colleague, this time to join the ERC project “Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History” led by @hildedw.bsky.social. For more info check: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #sinology #imperialchina #chineseinfrastructure

Masterful use of typography to demonstrate to children how to write well | Guillaume LePescheur, 'Het fondament van wel spellen ende lesen' (1626) #bookhistory

🎉 NWO-subsidie voor onderzoek naar anonieme middeleeuwse schrijvers! Collega @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social en @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social (UU) onderzoeken hoe mensen tussen 750 en 1000 omgingen met teksten zonder bekende auteur. Hoe betrouwbaar was kennis zonder naam? 👉 tinyurl.com/45bwhwds

From now on I'll only respond to Dr. DJIKISTRA

Perhaps SciHub can provide a mirror?

Looking for literature on #EarlyModern portraits in books, specifically (but not exclusively) in religious context. Author's portraits, but also portraits in biographies. Stuff like Ignatius' "vera effigies" in editions of his Spiritual Exercises, saints' lives, but also Cavendish. #BookHistory

Fellow (book)historians, a question! I am working on a late 17th century French manuscript, but it seems to have a plate edge surrounding the image. How would that work? All 200+ images seem to have one? #bookhistory

Wonderful new publication from our fully student led publishing company Armorica. Amber Blewanus shows in 'Archives of Natural Documentation' that old ink recipes (she looked at 223 different ones!) may offer guidance to more sustainable practises #bookhistory #ink

Very much looking forward to my conversation with Brandi K. Adams this Friday for #NewberryLibrary 'Race in Dialogue' on book history and race! Free and open to the public as a Zoom webinar at 12pm CDT/6pm BST/7pm CET www.newberry.org/calendar/rac...

Lovely, this 17th century author calling his new publication 'dit Papiere Kint' ('this Paper child') #bookhistory

Eigenzinnige selectie van de studenten Boekwetenschap, te zien op de UvA @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social @uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social @lisakuitert.bsky.social @allardpierson.bsky.social

CfP! Vakgroep @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social van de @uvahumanities.bsky.social, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte van de @uantwerpen.be en Onderzoeksgroep Nederlandse Literatuur van de KULeuven organiseren op 24 oktober het negende Boekhistorisch Forum! Meld je aan voor 15 juni #bookhistory

Can someone with access to SOLO help me out? A digital copy of this book should be available but I can't access it :-( #bookhistory solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...

How many letters may be composed and distributed in an hour? The Royal Society doing book historical research before it was cool (kidding, book history has always been cool) [Philosophical Transactions, vol. XV 1686] #bookhistory

Printed ephemera in paint: Still Life with Walnuts in a Wanli Bowl, a Pipe, and a Tobacco Wrapper by Hubert van Ravesteyn (1670) The wrapper’s image of a Black man holding a pipe recalls the imagery of hundreds of tobacco papers that have survived from the 17th and 18th centuries [MFABoston)

Hey look it's a postdoctoral position to study the codicology of middle-eastern manuscripts in Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

This is a message I can get behind!

Great early example of an optical illusion which apparently is called 'the Thatcher effect', found in an early 18th-century coloured German 'Totentanz' held at the University of Amsterdam #bookhistory #DanceMacabre #MementoMori

We're entering our 7th year of publishing and paying contingent historians, and we're looking for a new editor to help us do it!

Helped asked! I'm looking for coloured copies of John Jonston's 'Historiae naturalis', esp. the volume on 'quadrupetibus' (1650) Please let me know if you or your library has a copy 📚 #bookhistory #libraries