#onmydesktoday: a transregional focus upon (Armenian) diasporic mobility and entangled bookmaking in #earlymodern Europe. A nice read. Recommended for #bookhistory.

@rhetorician.bsky.social and I are hosting a hybrid symposium on 'New Directions in the Materiality of Letter-Writing: From Antiquity to the Present Day' on 29 and 30 May 2024 at University College Dublin. For the CfP and further info see the project website: thequeenspost.wordpress.com/conference/

Really looking forward to this!

#BookHistory people!!! We really need you to submit to this! @ellenforget.bsky.social is creating this alt text guide to go with the upcoming bibliography which will incorporate electronic text, audiobooks, talking books, and braille.

Make future book historians happy: annotate your books, write into books, use them, scribble, draw, make witty or unreadable comments. #bookhistory

Really looking forward to being a part of this. Thank you to Marianne Gillion for introducing me to the project. @mcegillion.bsky.social

I am stunned that Professor John Edmunds’ revelation at #CovidInquiry this week that much of the loss of 20,000-25,000 lives in Autumn 2020 could have been avoided if Boris Johnson had listened to scientific advice is NOT headline news and front cover of every news outlet in UK.

What have you done with your day? Welcome to my chaos!

That's a week to go...

Reminder that the #BookHistory conference "Printing Centers and Peripheries in the #EarlyModern World" begins tomorrow & it's fully hybrid! Zoom and Teams links are embedded in the online programe. #MusicalBookHistory papers on Friday by Sanna Rannien & myself! konferencijos.lnb.lt/printing-cen...

#Earlymodern books were more than just reading material. Yesterday I visited the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven again where Lieve Watteeuw showed me this unique hollowed out book printed in the Officina Plantiniana in 1589 with relics inside! I'm in awe 🤩

Another day, another transcription. What are you up to today? #musicalbookhistory #bookhistory #officinaplantiniana #archives #earlymodern

The call for submissions for our 2024 annual conference is now live. We'll be marking our 150th anniversary with a spectacular conference hosted at Senate House and the British Library, with keynotes from Catherine A. Bradley and Alex Ross. Full details here: rma150.wordpress.com/callforsubmi...

Hybrid event in a few hours:the early modern in public history, roundtable with @carolinepennock.bsky.social , @carriegibson.bsky.social and Montaz Marché! #SkyHistorians #EarlyModern 🗃️

New #OpenAccess #History book: Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600) brill.com/edcollbook-o...

Slowly getting there with Dutch. I enjoyed being able to use some of it on my last trip to Antwerp 😀

Enjoying cuddles with this one while catching up with admin tasks. No original prints out to add to the corpus of cat print additions to editions… #musicalbookhistory #bookhistory #catsinacademia #workingfromhome

The frustration when despite taking over 8000 photos on a recent archival trip, I find I need another couple of hundred….