Want to learn more about what a bibliographical approach might be for working with hand-press books? Come think with me about how to notice, ask questions, and maybe even discover new things about the material features of old books! 📜📚 #BookHistory

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition! Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

Any early modern Protestantism people know anything about the preacher William Holbrook? He preached at Paul's Cross in 1609 and a couple of his sermons (that one, published as Love's Complaint; one to the Blacksmiths and one at St Botolph's without Aldersgate) made it into print.

Although how a 17th century noblewoman shelved her books shouldn't have any bearing on how an individual chooses to arrange their personal library, it IS satisfying to see all the anti-shelving-by-colour snobs have to eat this

The new Scottish Literary Review is out on Project Muse! A Special Issue, guest edited by Gioia Angeletti and Marina Dossena, it features articles on Early Modern ScotLit, Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Picturebooks, migration writings and drama. You can access it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

Very exciting to see @physiciansgallery.bsky.social's The People's Dispensary published online! I loved working on this project a few years ago — sometimes I can still see Dr Andrew Duncan's handwriting when I close my eyes... www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

This is so niche I can't believe I am asking, but does anyone know anyone who might be an expert in Protestantism in Italy during the Reformation? (Stranger things have happened). RTs welcome.

DR LIGHTFOOTSOOO OOWORKESOO VOL. 1 OOOOO Spotted this week @queenslibcam.bsky.social

When You Love Something, Hide It Underwater? Ireland’s Oldest Book Shrine, Found Buried in a Lake, Reemerges share.google/SwLDzqhgDTMd...

Virgin of the Immaculate Copperplate? This glowing 17th c. Spanish painting of the Virgin Mary on loan from the Hispanic Society of America to a wonderful Milwaukee Museum of Art exhibition is painted on one side and gloriously engraved on the other....

Hurrah! My next book is instantiated, and in-the-world! Library Catalogues As Data: Research, Practice, Usage. Edited with Paul Gooding and @semames.bsky.social. Proud of this one! Official publication date soon… www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...

Relief sculpture of the 19th Century temperance campaigner William Collins on Glasgow Green, to which someone has added the remains of a hand-rolled 'cigarette'. Cont./ #glasgow #keepglasgowweird #statue #publicart #peoplemakeglasgow

#PrintedEphemera #BookHistory

*Confused historians of early modern medicine wake up to find themselves experts on current affairs*

A Tudor manuscript of a medieval poem collected by 18th antiquaries which ended up in a medieval university - a thrilling tale of medieval culture & its reception 😃 Thanks to @bobmaclean.bsky.social & the ASC team for facilitating 💫 /fin 🧵

It was the the elaborate initials (famously hiding an acrostic revealing the author's name, John Clerk of Whalley) and marginalia from later readers which occupied my attention this week 📝 2/3 🧵

A delight this week to make the aquaintance of this 1540s ms (Glasgow UL Hunter 388), the single surviving witness to the ME alliterative Romance, The Destruction of Troy (c. 1400), as part of my visiting fellowship at the University of Glasgow Library 📚 1/3 🧵

Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned by Scotland’s Central Region school libraries in 1984. The Education Committee said “There are some harmful words in it… Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed” But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction… #BookWormSat 1/3

CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky. Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world. Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community. www.cerl.org Give us a follow!

Last month the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and German 🇩🇪 sides of our project met in Glasgow. In our latest blog post, Alina Lange reports on a successful trip 👇 howtobook.hypotheses.org/3851

I also love this desire path comic by Chaz Hutton (instachaaz on instagram) that demonstrates that we may attempt to deny our nature, but we will always ultimately be meanderthals

📢 Clear your calendars! 🗓 On June 16th I'm hosting a day of talks on the Irish manuscripts in St Gall! The stellar line-up includes special guests from the Stiftsbibliothek. Tickets are free! Reserve here 👉 stgallmanuscripts.eventbrite.ie @historytcd.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #medievalsky

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

Do come along on May 28th to hear all about Francis Fry, his bibles, and a little bit about his chocolate...which you might even get to try🍫 The fruits of my Munby Fellowship research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social

The latest offering from @howtobooks.bsky.social — howtobook.hypotheses.org/3784

A 75% staff cut proposed at the Archives and Special Collections at Bangor University eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Toadskin onlays. That’s a new one on me!

Alarm set for 5am, boots laced, Harry Potter fans elbowed out of the way, and now mooching up Glenfinnan, heading for the two Munros up here. This is the way to pass a Tuesday…

oh, Edinburgh! Please go and beam very enthusiastically at Alex Walsham when she's giving the Gifford lectures in May! She's talking about Motion & Emotion in #EarlyModern Christianity, and is bound to be brilliant. Blurb and booking here: cahss.ed.ac.uk/20242025-pro... #SkyStorians #EarlyModern

Prayer books in the Middle Ages & early modern period were used by people over generations. Personal objects, they are commonly the site where ppl left notes about important events, as here, in a late 15th- or early 16thC hand which wrote in the November calendar page , "My Moder departed to God."

Next week at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (and on zoom), speaking on a Scottish #Gaelic poet and writer active in the #Caribbean in the early 1800s, but mostly about three generations of #Bajan women in his family, from the 18th to the 20th century!

Thanks to the team from @tcddublin.bsky.social for training this new #English model based on #Scottish port books from the 17th century 👇 www.transkribus.org/model/scotti...

📚 Final weeks to see "Tusitala: Pacific perspectives on Robert Louis Stevenson" This exhibition explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s life as a writer, traveller, and storyteller from Edinburgh to Samoa. 🎟️ Free entry 📆 Closes 10 May 📍 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

We launched our catalogue today - watch it here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/whats-on/

Congratulations to @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and Dr Andoni Cossio for winning Best Article at the @tolkiensociety.org 2025 Awards! Access their article below⬇️

I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇 www.nts.org.uk/collections/...

Look 🔍 at this 🔍 tiny #NewAcq! "Mercury only makes our countenance | now sullen 😠 then happy 😀 again." An #EarlyModern fortune cookie? Perhaps part of a game? How do I catalogue this? How do I label it? How do we keep this from getting lost? 🤷‍♂️ 📚💙 📜 #BookHistory #PrintedEphemera

Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.

Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #govan #architecture #sculpture #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography

Sgor Gaoith anns a’ Mhonadh Ruadh an diugh. Bha i caran gaothach (surprise!) air a’mhullach ach dìreach àlainn fad-latha

What better way to spend an afternoon than cataloguing this pretty little embroidered psalm book. A student has been working on this category of book for their placement recently but this one had remained uncatalogued. Until now: eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b4235...

Weekly collection box for the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, issued in 1839, with the original blocks used to print them. Part of the Boston Public Library’s vast collection of materials related to antislavery movements in the 19th century United States.

Amazing study: Biocodicological analysis of books from Clairvaux Abbey reveals that 12th-13th c. Cistercians in France (and England and Belgium) preferred to bind their books in Arctic sealskin, likely obtained through Norse traders. Seal of approval, no notes.

Lunch spot. Creag Mèagaidh - air a’ mhullach

Skiving off with some annual leave for another hill. This is from the summit of Carn Liath above Loch Laggan. What a stunning day

Getting up at 5am on a Saturday to drive for 3 hours to then walk up a hill for a long time makes little sense to many people. But in my defence… Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh above Loch Lochy

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!

Join us on Thursday? The weather's going to be lovely, and I'll be doing short intro tours to plants used in our medical recipe book collection.

Hello all! Nice to finally join you. I'm Lindsay: a literary food historian, knowledge exchange professional, and nature nerd. I'll very likely be posting about the nineteenth century, Scottish food, or fun birds and mushrooms I've seen. Oh, and tins, of course.