‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, a collab between @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social celebrating 550 years of printing in England, opens @senatehouselib.bsky.social on 26 Feb 2026! www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

Inscription 6 on cuts/tears ft. academic articles + art by Dave Beech, Stephen Emmerson, Lucio Fontana, Jo Hamill, Simon Morris, Buzz Spector, Carolyn Thompson, Patrick Wildgust, Steven Zultanski. Cover: Abigail Reynolds' St Paul’s Advance copies: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

A 🧵on all the courses on offer for our London Rare Books Summer School. All information about the summer school, bursaries and booking information can be found here: buff.ly/A5B4G2p

The next Stevenson Lecture (25 Feb 2026) will be delivered by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social (University of Oxford). ‘Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books’ will be free to attend but booking essential. Link below 👇

Kind of obsessed with John Tregortha’s printer’s device #stoke #burslem #potteries

✨ Booking is now open for the 2026 London Rare Books School! ✨ EARLY BIRD OFFER 21 November - 23 January: Use code LRBS10 to receive 10% off the booking fee at the checkout @sas-news.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

A big thank you to Mark Wiltshire and the team Christie’s for a fantastic show and tell today with @ies-sas.bsky.social History of the Book students. Featuring a guest appearance from Joseph Moxon, an array of gorgeous medieval manuscripts, plus a (the!) tube map #bookhistory

#MedievalSky #RenaissanceSky #BookSky

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’ November 18th, 5-7pm. In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...

Hello! I’m looking for scholarship on the management of artificial light in early modern workplace environments. Any suggestions most welcome! #earlymodern #bookhistory

Many thanks to @ies-sas.bsky.social graduate, Zachary Larsen, Charlotte Miller, and all the team @quaritch1847.bsky.social for welcoming our MA cohort so warmly today!

It’s Book Collecting Seminar day @ies-sas.bsky.social and @quaritch1847.bsky.social #BookHistory and we’re hearing from Jonathan Nathan about the Cymbalum Mundi

Finally got to see The Nature of Gothic exhibition (and the small corner I got to curate). Go visit Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery before it closes on 13 December! #bookhistory @ies-sas.bsky.social

Our MA History of the Book students had a fantastic trip to St Bride Foundation, which houses the world's largest print and publishing library and a fabulous print workshop www.instagram.com/reel/DQeGTQP...

Booking is open the short course 'Black Atlas in the Warburg Archives' 📅25-27 November 2025 🕔5-7pm 🏢Warburg This course highlights resources for studying Africa and the Americas and their diasporas at @warburginstitute.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are delighted to host a major international symposium occasioned by the publication of 'Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain' by Stefan Collini ⏰Thurs 30 Oct 2025, 2-7pm 📍Senate House, London The event is free to attend BOOK NOW ⤵️ ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship #historyofthebook #bookhistory

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ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Deadline for proposals is 30 September

Our friends at the British Library have asked us to share details of this year's Panizzi Lectures: events.bl.uk/events/books...

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

Still plenty of time to get those #bookstudies abstracts in! #bookhistory #bibliography

And here's the first session! #SharedFutures

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

Yesterday’s Reading Matters salon at English: Shared Futures, sponsored by @ies-sas.bsky.social and @univeng.bsky.social No pics of the Reading Matters panel as I was chairing, but brill papers by @lisablowerwrite.bsky.social Carina Spaulding @readingagency.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social

I’m really happy to be a part of this special issue on ‘The Politics of Book History: Then and Now’. Thanks to @georginaemw.bsky.social and @zacharylesser.bsky.social for all their hard work editing the collection oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

📣Our Shakespeare in London display is now open! 📅 30 June to 25 September 2025 A chance to see our rarely displayed treasures related to #Shakespeare. ✅ Shakespeare's signature ✅ John Keats’ 1820 copy of Shakespeare’s plays ✅ Civitas Londinum map www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...

A few more pics from Anatomy of the Book last week, ft. guest sessions with Karen Attar, Giles Mandelbrote, and David Pearson 📚

Day 2 of Anatomy of the Book LRBS short course @ies-sas.bsky.social . Today we’ve had a visit to St Bride and a printing demo with Richard Lawrence

Hercules has a pot to piss in

One immediate action item following our "Building BookLabs" symposium was to establish a mailing list where folks running/founding/dreaming up book labs & adjacent initiatives can share resources, opportunities, events, & other materials—if you’d like to be connected sign up at the link below!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/ My book, The dreadful name of Henry Hills, is now up on the @manchesterup.bsky.social website! Chapters on Hills’s beginnings, queer books, imprints, conspiracy, and wills. Starts out in Kent (or possibly Wales) and ends up in Surat. Out March 2026.

📚 Join the Bodleian Conservation Team as a Book Repair Technician! 📚 We’re seeking a Book Repair Technician to help preserve our collections. Working under the guidance of the Book Conservator, you’ll master the skills and techniques of modern book repair. Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social, in partnership with the Friends of Senate House Library, invites applications for a Visiting Research Fellowship. In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates

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“Make you to ravel all this matter out” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4) Join us in June for a conference which showcases early career scholars working on the intersections between text, materiality & performance in commercial theatres from 1500-1800! www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/

Get reading! All the texts from issue 5 of INSCRIPTION: THE JOURNAL OF MATERIAL TEXT are online and downloadable for free at inscriptionjournal.com We are a double-blind peer reviewed, green open access journal. Published by Information as Material in a partnership with Leeds Beckett University

Please do sign and share this petition, put together to save Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections from job cuts that will see 3 of 4 archivists made redundant. @cilip.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social

ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜

Tomorrow's free lunchtime lecture takes a look at rare survivals of Catholic printed books c.1570-1600, which provide telling insight into an English Catholic religious culture. Come by if you're enjoying the sunny London weather tomorrow! www.sal.org.uk/event/illust...

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Very happy to be giving the John Coffin Palaeography Lecture in London next month. I'll be discussing women scribes, rural communities of literacy, and scribal (mis)behaviours in thirteenth-century scrolls. It doesn't get more exciting than that! www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Get your 300–500 word abstracts in by 30 September 2025!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/early-mod... I have a chapter in this new volume on early modern bonds of trust, and it turns out that it has been published!