What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)

Cataloging a book in signatures, mostly unopened, untrimmed, and unbound. As one does. 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks

The final conference reports from SHARP 2025 in Rochester are up! Hear from: Malcolm Noble sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... AND Mykhailo Tupytsia sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #SHARP2025 #BookHistory #Libraries #Bibliography

African #bookhistory in the archives

📣 SHARP News needs a new Editor in Chief. Could it be you? Applications due November 14 2025. Details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Editor

@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!

CFP: 18th International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, & Culture 1–4 July, @bristoluni.bsky.social Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. See link for details 👇 icmrsllc2026.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

This looks v interesting 👀 on #Reading and #Wellbeing ☀️@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social research project. With @profsarahmcg.bsky.social and David Robinson ⬇️⬇️

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard. Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

Another #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies CFP: this time for #RSVP2026! 🗓️ Applications Due November 1

Pretty stoked about this collaboration with my colleague Megan! filsonhistorical.org/event/printi... And thanks to @filsonhistorical.bsky.social for supporting! #NAIS #bookhistory #letterpress #Indigenous #NativeAmerica #printmaking

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online

I'm giving several talks about the books in the next couple of months, if you want to hear more (before you buy?). The first, linked below, is online via. UPenn @sims-mss.bsky.social on October 17th at 12 midday EDT.

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

📰 Happy Friday! Don't have plans for the weekend? Why not spend some time checking out our new look?! That's right - the SHARP News website has gone through some exciting changes. 👉 sharpweb.org/sharpnews/

Last day to apply! #BookHistory #Bibliography

*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19

Dear #earlymodern, #bookhistory, #rarebooks, and #skystorians people: I’m travelling to Lisbon in a few days! What do you recommend? Libraries, historic spots, bookshops, exhibitions? 📜

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people. Applications due October 1 2025. The full call for applications and how to apply: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

⚠️⌛ Deadline fast approaching! Don't forget to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer! 👉 DEADLINE: October 01 2025. 👈 Full posting details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Last call (for now!) before I set a schedule! If you'd like to join a monthly (or twice-monthly?) meet up of independent scholars & non-faculty researchers, please fill out this when2meet! www.when2meet.com?32480075-LPIAv #humanities #bookhistory #medievalsky #dh

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ? Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia 📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

Please do talk to me if you have questions about the role! #BookHistory

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon! Apply by October 01 2025. See the link for details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon! Apply by October 01 2025. See the link for details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

There’s still time to submit your #bookhistory #bookstudies proposals!

Call for Contributors! @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals! Deadline: 30 September 2025 More info here 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...

📢 21st Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social 📜Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market 📅31 October-02 November 2025, @unimainz.bsky.social 🌐Attendance in-person or online is free #Tolkien #bookstudies 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bookhistory #booksky

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Apply to for a fellowship to research #BookHistory at my two favourite libraries in the entire world! They are walking distance apart and you can have frietjes for lunch.

I wish I could apply!

maybe some #bookhistory folx might know?

18-19 September. Very much looking forward to hosting a workshop on Literary agents and circulation of texts: research perspectives, organized with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and Anna Ferrando (U. of Pavia) in Aix-en-Provence. @lerma.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr #BookHistory @sharpnews.bsky.social

hey #bookhistory #earlymodern folks - am looking for anything i can read on the circulation of title pages as advertisements for books ahead of their publication? am particularly interested in english context - ty!

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people. Applications due October 1 2025. The full call for applications and how to apply: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Good morning Bluesky! I'm boosting an opportunity to run the special collections and archives division at Case Western Reserve University. You have a great team, exciting collections, and supportive peers. Can answer questions ❤️ @sharpnews.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social

👉🏼 Rare Books Job Alert: Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western is hiring a director of rare books and university archives. 👈🏼 Pros: Cleveland rocks; our collections are fab, esp in history of print and science; you get to work with me 🥰 Cons: 🤷🏻‍♀️ employment.case.edu/psc/ERECRUIT...

Queer Book History zine intro & table of contents! See also the full @sharpnews.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography the zine builds on for a better intro to what queer book history is & why it matters now: bsky.app/profile/bibl...

Same! Linked to Zine Librarian Code of Ethics in our @sharpnews.bsky.social "Queer Book History" zine—w/ @fobettarh.bsky.social's foundational work on vocational awe+library workers too—as important to doing queer book history work well with or as library+archive workers, zine authors+collectors.

#SHARP just published a new #bibliography of #LGBTQIA #BookHistory. Hundreds of books and articles about #queer authors, readers, and publishing, as wells as some material about #libraries and allied fields. I am proud to be one of the contributors. #LGBTQ sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it! Check it out! #BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Massive congratulations to @bibliowingate.bsky.social and the team for this superb contribution to #QueerBibliography from @sharpnews.bsky.social! Read the intro, use the list, and spread the word with the fab zine from @literaturegeek.bsky.social et al! 📜 📚

📢 NEW POST ALERT - SHARP 2025 Conference Reports In this report, you’ll hear from four travel awardees about their work and experiences at the conference: • Pedro Toniazzo Terres • Ayan Choudhury • Simi Nath • Jiřina Šmejkalová More reports to come! #BooKHistory sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

We can't waaaiiit!! More soon! #BookHistory

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +