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!

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series! CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach... @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Deadline 16th May 2025 9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London

Book now for @etreharne.bsky.social on Mortuary Rolls as Evidence of Scribal Practice, a lecture in London on 11 June! Not to be missed 👇📜📝 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join our in-person seminar exploring the role of the radical 19th-century press in transmitting revolutionary British & European texts from the Romantic period ⏰ Tue, 1 April, 6PM - 8PM 📍 Senate House, London The seminar is free to attend and open to all BOOK NOW 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/19th-...

There's still time to register for our next 3D Printing training!

Join the Irish Studies Seminar tomorrow for PhD night! The event is free to attend and open to all, featuring two early career researchers presenting their work in tandem. ⏰ 6pm-8pm, Thursday, 20 March 📍 Senate House, London BOOK NOW 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/phd-n...

📢The IES 2025/26 Fellowship competition is now live! Deadline: 10 April 2025 Fellowship terms are 6 months - 3 years, and there is no restriction as to period or subject matter. Apply & read more here 👇 https://ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/about-our-fellowships/fellowship-applications-and-renewals

Join us for our next in-person training session on Thursday 27 March as we provide an introduction to 3D printing in the Senate House MakerSpace. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

For the academic year 2025/6 we are delighted to once again offer the Maggs Scholarship, generously supported by Maggs Bros. Ltd., one of the world’s largest and oldest antiquarian booksellers. Application deadline: 20 June 2025 Find out more: ies.sas.ac.uk/study-and-tr...

There’s still time to book for this online short course next month. It is for anyone who wants to work with texts in medieval French 🇫🇷📖📝 #medievalsky👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...