Happy to announce that the #Transkribus model I've had the pleasure of working on for the last few years is live! It is built on a variety of hands used in English courts around 1530-1650 (just hit over 1 mil words in the training set!) Take a look: #earlymodern app.transkribus.org/models/publi...

I spent the second half of June and the beginning of July in London, Cambridge, and Bristol - working, researching, and living fully. To reflect on this time, here's my #FellowshipAlphabet : a personal memory thread (and a thank you to all involved). 🧵1/27 #EarlyModern #Bookhistory #HistoryofScience

Many thanks to @srsrensoc.bsky.social and Bristol Organising Committee for such a wonderful conference. #RenSoc25 I feel inspired and happy to be part of such a thriving community. Special thanks to my Chair, @racheljwillie.bsky.social , and co-panelists - @eprenprof.bsky.social and Matteo Leta.

Excited for tomorrow's talk in panel 5.8. (Scientific and Celestial Writing). Do join us! #Rensoc25 #Bristol #SRS #earlymodern #skystorians #bookhistory #historyofscience #culturalastronomy

@srsrensoc.bsky.social Hi :) I'm joining you in Bristol, but I'm not in the starter pack yet :)

Including a CFP of interest for #earlymodern #architecture #histsci #histSTEM "Building Science: The City as a Site and Object of Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Period"

symbolic image of "coauthoring a book". #academicchatter

"Bee-ing Human: an adventure in digital editing" Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...

💅Self-care, medieval style… 🛌Catch up on sleep 🥗Eat a good diet 🏊Do some exercise 🛀Have a bath We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures

Delighted to be part of the History of Scholarship and the Global Imagination seminar series (Institute of Philosophy, CAS & Scientiae). My talk looked at how #earlymodern English #almanacs communicated new astronomy & helped shape 17th-c. scientific discourse. youtu.be/hxJ7n3gC6xs #historyofscience

For anyone interested in #earlymodern epistemology, my review of Sandrine Parageau's The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France was recently published in Renaissance Quarterly. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

“The Library A Fragile History” by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen is excellent indeed. #bookhistory #earlymodernprint #earlymodern #library #manuscripts #bookstudies

My book reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques was published recently. OUP has made the Introduction to Part 1 available, where you can read about the process. Free to read till June 13. Enjoy! academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...

Coffee at Weston Library to finish a superb week of research at Oxford. Thank you and see you soon @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

At Oxford ❤️ #research #historyofastronomy #historyofscience #Oxford

It's been a great week of research and rare blue skies in London. Time for Oxford! #research #earlymodern #historyofscience #bookhistory #london #oxford #skyhistorians

And Newton seems really busy today @britishlibrary.bsky.social #Newton #britishlibrary #research #earlymodern #bookhistory #historyofscience #books

A home away from home and my favourite view. Ready to start my research trip. @britishlibrary.bsky.social #britishlibrary #books #bookhistory #earlymodern #historyofscience

"Creation of the Sun and the Moon", Master of Jean de Mandeville, Paris, 1360-70, tempera, gold, ink (Getty Museum). #astrosphere #history

New article: “Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press” #BookHistory #Printing The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past. dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...

Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, the miniature portrait now attributed to Lavinia Fontana hadn't been seen for 200 years #arthistory #earlymodern news.artnet.com/art-world/mi...

Medieval Treasures of Lithuania Unearthed in Vilnius Cathedral https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medieval-treasures-of-lithuania-unearthed-in-vilnius-cathedral/ #historysky #Lithuania #Discovery

After 85 years, hidden royal treasures have been unearthed at Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania! Among the finds are crowns, medallions, and other priceless artifacts tied to Polish and Lithuanian royalty, including a crown of Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Amusing nude supporters for this bookish shield. From Johannes de Sacrobosco’s ‘De sphera’, printed at Paris in 1507 and given to @theul.bsky.social by Osbert Fowler (Registrar of King’s College) in 1655. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Tb.54.3.

Unexpected Friday find: a sheet bound in a Sammelband after a 1566 Antwerp edition of Joannes de Sacrobosco’s Sphaera with uncut parts of a volvelle diagram(!) #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory #woodcut #printhistory 📜 📚💙

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social What a captivating microcosm this BODcast on the #ARCHiOX Project is! History of science, book history, art history, reflection on the past and future of historical collections, not to mention the digital magic. Highly recommended podcasts.ox.ac.uk/archiox-seei...