Today at 21:30! Grab a cup of whatever beverage is legal for your timezone and join us for the #SHARPIES2026 book recommendation social hour. I already have my book ready ;) @sharpnews.bsky.social

Can't wait to read this! Ann Blair's work played a fundamental role in shaping my understanding to the kinds of #agency embedded in the #earlymodern #writing and #reading practices that shaped #health and #naturalhistory #information #systems. #bookhistory #hstm press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Hi #bookhistory people. Can anyone help me with any sources that talk about dirt in a printing office or press room? Ideally pre-1800 but I’d be interesting anything.

Are you attending the #SHARPIES festival? On Thurs 9 Jul, 21:30-22:30 CEST I will be hosting the 'All-Languages Book Recommendation Fika Social Hour.' Bring your bookish book recommendation (fiction & non-fic) & tell us why you liked it. @sharpweb.org #BookHistory 1/

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

Excited for my latest library checkout: @ewatson.bsky.social’s Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age!

If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!

#bookhistory #transbookhistory

Hey, Margaret Bates is a graduate student who's doing a study on romance book buying behaviors and would like your input, if you have a chance. forms.office.com/r/b6E8qJV8Tm

Literary life after death: How authors are remembered across Canada

Just starting: Indigenous Books and America 250, the 2026 James Russell Wiggins Lecture @amantiquarian.bsky.social with Philip Round. #VastEarlyAmerica #BookHistory www.youtube.com/live/QRccsXQ...

I've just been alerted to this very lovely review of People of Print: 18th-Century England in this week's @thetls.bsky.social, penned by none other than the remarkable Thomas Keymer 😵: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... #18thC #18C #BookHistory

About printing and the history of print and a lot of ideas from my letterpress work overflowing in probably not terribly academic ways! (I don’t think you have to be any sort of an academic or historian to make sense of this!)

Welcome to SHARP in the Classroom! Read Anushmita's (our new SHARP in the Classroom section editor) welcome post to get a sense of her vision for the section! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #Pedagogy #SHARP #BookHistory #Teaching #Classroom #Learning

Are you interested in book history around the globe? Check out the SHARPIES online, global book history festival, taking place July 7th-9th. Free for SHARP members (and membership is between 55–100USD). Time is running out, so register today! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Are you interested in contemporary publishing, texts, and readers? Then you'll love the SHARPIES festival, which kicks off in just two weeks! Registration is still open and free for SHARP members. SHARP membership is 55-100USD. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Hebrew Curator at the British Library (2-year fixed term) Wonderful opportunity for a scholar of #Hebrew and Jewish #bookhistory to spend 2 years in the Promised Land of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social with its invaluable collection. Deadline: 12 July. ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

What can 19th-century letters reveal about migration, identity, and Jewish networks? Last year at @upenn.edu, I worked on the Italian letters of Sabato Morais, tracing connections between Italy, Philadelphia, and the wider Jewish world. Read more here: www.library.upenn.edu/kislak/judai...

#bookhistory Hey, folks, have you made, or do you have, a favourite bibliography or curated corpus focused on 18th or 19th century books in English? Maybe it's quite small or has a niche genre or period focus? (how-to manuals from the 1840s? books about cows, 1770-1820?) I'd love to hear abt it!

Does anyone know of any short-term fellowships or other funding I could apply for to help me get to Germany in September? Trying to attend a conference, but internal funding hasn't come through. Anything related to #BookHistory #DisabilityStudies or #DigitalHumanities. Thanks!

Could yall share any favorite volvelles*? 🌀Especially any you find especially moving (lol but I mean emotionally) or inventive. *Aka spinner cards, wheel charts, code/data wheels, paper infographic spinner... *(I know I follow folks who "have favorite volvelles", living your best #bookhist lives 💪)

Should have added #bookhistory

Slightly niche - OK, very niche - question. Does anyone in #bookhistory and/or #cdnhistory know if Canadian historian and poet Ruth Roach Pierson was related to Australian bookplate designer Percy Roach Pierson? Genealogy sites are of no help, alas...

Brand new version of the print that started it all! hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4335...

Congratulations to @juliaboechat.bsky.social and @shuwan1.bsky.social on their first bibliography!!! #BookHistory

🔊Announcing: The SHARP News “SHARP in the Classroom” Editor We are delighted to welcome Anushmita Mohanty as our incoming “SHARP in the Classroom” editor. Anushmita is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Welcome Anushmita! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/ab...

📚 ✨ The SHARP Annual Bibliography 2025 is now live! ✨ 📚 Read and download it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Authorship #Reading #Publishing #Research

Are you interested in archives? Publishing? What about accounts of power and race in archives and publishing? Well, the SHARPIES online book history festival has got some new scholarship for you to check out. Consider registering today (and tell your friends!) events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Come and work with us at @ouliterature.bsky.social ! We are looking for a lecturer in Romantic Studies to join our wonderful department. Details in the link below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l... @bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @sharpweb.org

My second book review is officially out! Thrilled to have had the opportunity to review @mmvty.bsky.social's masterful book, Poetry's Data, for @sharpweb.org @sharpnews.bsky.social! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20....

Have you ever wondered what SHARP is? How to get published in one of SHARP's publications? Or how the SHARP Book Prize gets awarded? You're not alone! Register for the SHARPIES to get answers to these questions and more! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Hi! Interested in the Early Career Mentorship Event, but not able to pay for a membership? DM us! We're offering free registrations to the first 20 early career scholars who get in touch!

Frisket Fragment Find Friday 🎉 
Fragment of a frisket reused in a 17th-c. religious binding. Red printed text meant to be excluded remains visible, pointing to a liturgical context. The frisket itself is recycled from a liturgical manuscript. Also present: other fragments of printed binder’s waste.

📚 NEW BOOK REVIEWS 📚 1/6 Richard L. Saunders reviews: Derek W. Black, _Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy_ (Yale University Press, 2025). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BlackHistory #LiteracyAndRace #Literacy #BookHistory

Does anyone have recommendations for the best laser cutter settings for making letterpress woodcuts? I am using Lightburn software. I am trying to replicate some 18c woodcuts. #letterpress #bookhistory

This essay on an exhibit about William Caxton and early English printing is *fascinating*: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #BookHistory

This #earlymodern print was to be used by 4 singers, standing on the four sides of the broadside, enjoying the get together. Part of the title says: for four voices, composed for children: "Mit vier Stimmen, für die Kinder Componieret". The year is 1571. 🎵 #skystorians

Just the type of thing to find in our collections: a sheet with rows of characters probably printed as a working proof to assess wear & damage. This would explain why no frisket was used: the sheet was not a type specimen intended for presentation to potential clients. #bookhistory #rarebooks 📚💙📜

Exciting news from the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography: We made it into Standard Citations Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging! #BookHistory rbms.info/scf/?scf_ent...

⭐ Reminder! ⭐ 📅 10 DAYS LEFT to get your applications in and make fabulous contributions to teaching and learning across our field(s)! Be the next "SHARP in the Classroom" Editor for SHARP News! Details below. #Books #BookHistory #Publishing #Teaching #Classroom #Pedagogy

wonderful a 1937 book on printing type turned into a website www.c82.net/printing-typ...

Hey does anyone have information about what happens when parchment gets wet? The internet is just telling me about *parchment cooking paper.*

And finally, on 28 May Becca will lead a roundtable event exploring the continuities between medieval printed books and contemporary small press poetry: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Later that day, Becca will run a drop-in workshop drop-in workshop, which will show you how to set a line of type on a table top printing press: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

The @senatehouselib.bsky.social Printer is Residence, Becca Drake, is delivering two free workshops and a roundtable later this month, and they’re free! First up, a zine-making workshop on 21 May: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

SHARP NEWS Team Update We are happy to welcome @jochargrave.bsky.social as the new Editor-in-Chief of SHARP NEWS. And we want to extend a big thank you to the outgoing Editor, @andiesilva.bsky.social for everything! Meet the new team: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/ab...

And thank you to outgoing Editor-in-Chief @andiesilva.bsky.social, who has done a tremendous job over the past six years! 🙏

🌟 So thrilled to announce that @jochargrave.bsky.social is the incoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief! Help us welcome her into the role!

We are pleased to announce that Tyler Williams's IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER is the Honorable Mention for the 2026 Bernard S. Cohn Prize for the first book on South Asia from the Association for Asian Studies. buff.ly/JpsNWpI #BookHistory #Manuscripts #Medieval #EarlyModern #Hindi

🚨 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🚨 SHARP News is looking for a new editor to run "SHARP in the Classroom". Passionate about pedagogy? This might be the role for you! Applications due 18 May 2026. See full call here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Pedagogy #Teaching