Don't forget the deadline is looming for submitting proposals for the PrintNetworks/CPHC annual conference which this year is in Cornwall. The theme is Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage (surfboards welcome!) www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2025...

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Great. Now someone is going to blow Boudica's trumpet, and who knows what will then happen. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There we go. That there’s a headline.

The Glasgow Corporation Lighting Department lamp base of 1902, at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens. Manufactured in Possilpark at the Saracen Foundry, and given a colourful makeover in 2025, there are now probably more of these in Halifax, Nova Scotia than in Glasgow.

“I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.” www.reddit.com/r/confession...

Snowdrops illustrated by Frederick Edward Hulme for ‘The Garland of the Year, or, The Months: their poetry and flowers : with twelve chromographs of flowers, one for each month.’ London, 1873. From my personal collection. ❄️ #FrederickEdwardHulme #LanguageofFlowers #chromolithograph #snowdrops

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Anyone interested in Wagner may like to know that tomorrow the German TV station 3Sat is showing all 4 parts of the Ring. Production from Zurich Opera 2024, Noseda conducing. Starts 8am UK time.

Mind-bogglingly greedy acceptance of gifts of suits, mind-bogglingly evil schemes to take gold from refugees, mind-bogglingly inept policies on winter fuel and child support, &c &c. Rather, it speaks of some modicum of decency in at least some people; alas not in this government.

The politics here are reprehensible but also really sad. He was a great scholar once. He had philological skills that no one has anymore. There are very few people who could produce that kind of work today. And to some extent, that's what this is about. He's mad that our field lost its former status

Dear Dutch historians, I'm trying to find Amsterdam price currents in the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia. McCusker (1991) says that there are dozens of them, starting in 1734. I searched the website and did not find much, and what I did find I could not access. Any advice?

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

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Well this is making me feel old

Earlier in the year, we worked with the Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh who told the story of Edinburgh as a City of Industry, focused on the Incorporated Trades, an organisation which was established in the 1500s and still continues today. Find out more on Our Town Stories - zurl.co/YXnaV

'Rays of Language' expands horizons in #papyrological #linguistics and historical #sociolinguistics. Edited by Bentein and Vierros, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of #language used in the everyday written culture of the ancient #Mediterranean. Read the #OAbook at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...

They live in other young men, O kings,

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

What a splendid prospect. I would feel obliged to add a slug of kirsch to those berries and a dribble of triple sec to the clementines to help the fruit keep overnight.

Call for Papers. IASIL 2026 Conference : Translating Ireland. Host and dates: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU), Budapest. 6-10 July 2026. Extended deadline for submissions: Friday, 23 January 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

It's cold, but look, snails and dragonflies www.ashmolean.org/collections-...

A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen!

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A bit of entirely unseasonal bliss here, in case you need it today www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K4Z...

Good news at last. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

I’m passing on a question from @drtlwagner.bsky.social & their students: Do you know of existing/in process book history work on clip art? I know Shep’s history of print emoji & anecdotally I know some early clip art remediated printer’s ornaments—as does the "font" Wingdings—anyone digging in more?

Even if you want endless theft-facilitated slop, the numbers don't add up on it, and the bubble will burst fortune.com/2025/12/03/i...

british history is when you write about england but your footnotes note “may have been different in wales, scotland and ireland”

Signalboose: CFP for special issue: APPARATUS- The Role of Technology in Illustration Submission Deadline 26th of January 2026 Journal of Illustration (Volume 14, 2027)

If you want a preview of what is on offer in my book, I've been having some conversations that might interest you! Last week I spoke to Jen Hoyer @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Library Science podcast. You can listen to our conversation newbooksnetwork.com/trans-histor....

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

NEW special issue of Critical Quarterly, 'Paper and Poetry: Interventions in Theory and Practice', brilliantly edited by @georginaemw.bsky.social and Orietta da Rodd. This is an outstanding collection that we are proud to publish in CQ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

[Dutch trader in February 1637 voice]

Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?

They found the secret of Roman concrete! This is huge. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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