We are pleased to report that Dr Nicolas Bell’s recent lecture commemorating the centenary of the publication of the Short-Title Catalogue is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFe...

What a joy to talk about British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical with Miranda on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I hope you'll check it out! #18thcentury #WomensHistoryMonth #regency #bookhistory #JaneAusten @hopkinspress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/british-wome...

The Atlas of Early Printing has a new URL at the Folger. 📜 #BookHistory atlas.folger.edu

Kelsey Rexroat investigates the super-readers who log hundreds of books a year.

Hey #bookhistory and #dresshistory peeps: who has written about clothing (linens, recycling) and papermaking together in a way that would be accessible to an educated general audience (my paper-obsessed mature students)?

On artists’ book as vehicle for weird, wonderful, and expansive rarity!

Medieval monks in Easter Ross – and not the Hebridean island of Iona – may have created the intricately decorated Book of Kells, according to researchers. A new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack #medievalsky #bookhistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

I should probably wait until the weekend is over to post this, but I've been reading a lot of 19thc printer's manuals lately and they say surprisingly little about how copy text was marked up for the printer (beyond complaining about receiving awful manuscripts) — does anyone know about this?

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NEW FEATURES ARTICLE Anastasia Armendariz, "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books." Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #RareBooks #SpecialCollections #Affect #ArtistsBooks #Collecting #BookArts #BookHistory

NEW FEATURES ARTICLE Leah Tether, "In Defence of Publishing before Print." Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Manuscript #Publishing #Medieval

🚨JOB KLAXON! The Winterthur Library is hiring a collections processor for the manuscript collection! secure10.saashr.com/ta/6002811.c...

Welcome @jochargrave.bsky.social !!!

REMINDER Help us build the SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography! Submit citation information for titles you published/contributed to/edited (etc) in 2025 that are "book historical" (think broadly!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

A pretty portrait of a printing press in this prologue of Saavedra's "Idea de un principe politico christiano: rapresentada en cien empresas." En Monaco : [s.n.], 1640. Digital copy at Hathi - hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ar... #BookHistory #PrintingPress

It is so amazing to me that things like this have survived so long and are still being found. #BookHistory

Submit citation information for your 2025 publications to be included in the SHARP News 2025 Bibliography! #BookHistory #Bibliography

My article "'rather ridicule than censure': Lady Caroline Lamb, Frances Arabella Rowden, and the Art of Respectability" is out now in Literature Compass. #CarolineLamb #Romanticism #criticalbibliography #bookhistory #womenwriters doi.org/10.1111/lic3...

The digitisation of the Baskerville punches is a really great resource. John Dreyfus’s account of their history is well worth a read too! They travelled all over France before ending up back in England. #typography #bookhistory cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

Join the Bookselling Research Network on Friday, March 13th for what will be a fascinating talk by Sarah Harkness: Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/harkne... #bookhistory #publishing

#BookHistory mutuals, pls do your magic. A student in my seminar is looking for sources on fingerprints in books. Other than Darnton's reference to inky fingerprints left on the plates of the Encyclopedie, & Folger blog posts by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, I'm short of ideas. Do you have any? THX!

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Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

For students who need to edit medieval texts, this summer school course in London, 8-12 June, provides an intensive introduction. Let your graduate students know. #medievalsky 👇🎓📖 ☀️ palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Graphic design is my passion, but make it early modern: There's a book called _Principe en la idea_, and someone got new type & wanted to use ALL of it, or the author wanted to have a 22-page title page? & the body has an entire column for footnotes? books.google.com/books?id=EP1... #BookHistory

We all slip. In 1591, so did 1 of Mynken Liefrinck’s workmen quite literally. While printing engravings for this edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Jan I Moretus, a stray paper slip seems to have been left between plate & sheet. Its edge blocked ink, leaving a defined unprinted corner.

#SOSpalaeography #BookHistory I am trying to decipher what it says for the Quevedo. It seems it says Volexía. Could also be Volesoía. Quevedo has a book Politica de Dios but cannot find any title that starts with V. Any ideas?

Today, thanks to the Houghton Library, I got to introduce students to an #18thcentury German peepshow showing the interior of a printing house. Take a peek! (It was hard to photograph & the photo fails to include the cat who joins the dog in the foreground as 1 of the spectators.) #BookHistory

For our next seminar we're thrilled to have @saracharles.bsky.social speaking on 'The challenges and constraints of making medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century'. 17.30 GMT Wed 25/02/26 at @ihr.bsky.social or online. Further details/registration at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This was a great conversation, which somehow I'd missed back in 2020. Recommended! #medievalsky #bookhistory #fragmentology

Nice piece about the death, not of the book, but of the spinning #paperback rack: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/america-says-goodbye-paperback?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Othe #bookstodon #bookhistory

#Bookhistory #printinghistory people: what can I read and share with my students on the development of punchcutting and typefounding as trades in the early modern period? I tend to explain traditional and alternative theories of Gutenberg's types, gesture towards his very limited stock, +

@sharpnews.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social This important work about the British Museum Library is now available open access here - doi.org/10.23636/t2s...

New reviews up at SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social's! Books on marginalia, letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., manuscript cookbooks, hybrid media, the small press the Jargon Society, & more: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/.

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⭐NEW⭐ SHARP Reports! Hear from Jodie Lea Martire and Guillermo Pupo Pernet about how SHARP’s 25th Anniversary Fellowships supported their work! @sharpweb.org Jodie Lea Martire: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... Guillermo Pupo Pernet: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #SHARPat25

📚 NEW BOOK REVIEWS ARE LIVE!!! 📚 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 1/6 Jonathan Senchyne reviews: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s _Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer_ (San Francisco: Letterform Archive, 2024). sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Printing #Letterpress

"invariably entertaining" and "exuberant, erudite" and "occasionally infuriating": man, this TLS review. i feel seen: excluding the first two, and the adverb "occasionally," this is exactly what my loved ones say about me. #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

I’ll be teaching this, with help from some excellent guest speakers, in person, in London, in June. It will be fun. #BookHistory 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

New project+page started: "Home for Broken Wood Type". Celebrating: collecting, mending+understanding, preserving, printing w/broken wood letterpress type. Part of my printing+research during my Jan. artist residency+fellowship. Better+more photos+info to come. enthusiastictype.com/brokenwoodty...

I collect my digital+analog #bookhist +arts projects @ EnthusiasticType.com: *Limited Letterpress: tools for not-enough-type *Queer Book History zine (@sharpnews.bsky.social collab) *TBA zines for letterpress financial/physical/+ accessibility Broken Wood Type, DIY Queer Historical Letterpress, blog

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

Join us this Friday 16 January 2026 at 15:00 CET for a seminar at @cwtsnl.bsky.social with Dr. @samuelmoore.org on the current OA landscape and how we can move to a scholar-led infrastructure beyond the market. #ScientificPublishing #OpenAccess #BookHistory www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 we're seeking a Curator of African American Experience colls here at KU! GREAT colls & colleagues, tenure track, unionized, salary $61,000-$68,000. Not on the committee, but would be a colleague! More info at link!📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks rbms.info/blog/news-ev...

Jody Mason (my supervisor) will be talking about her new book, Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World! When: January 23, 2026 12-1:30pm EST Where: zoom Register in advance here: uqam.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #bookhistory