New acquisition for the Cromwell Museum… this ‘pocket’ road map of Huntingdonshire by Thomas Jenner. In 1643 Jenner republished Matthew Simmon's book 'A Direction for the English Traveller' which had 37 county maps accompanied by a distance table.

Link to the students' petition: c.org/CqGHZq6tbW

www.bbc.com/news/article... Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia. Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia. Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.

The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales. The Merthyr Rising. The Rebecca Riots. The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod

Une tribune importante de @monniauxd.bsky.social : Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux GAFAM de cesser leurs services cloud à l'égard de nos gouvernements ? www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

[🎆 !!! BIG REVEAL !!! 🎆] Aliénor l'a décrété : le 65e congrès de la SAES aura lieu à #Poitiers, ville aux 100 clochers ⛪ (et bientôt aux 1000 spécialistes d'études anglophones). ✨ Le thème de l'année 2026 est l'ÉMANCIPATION. ✨

November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory I look very forward to this! I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!

Great thread for my course on museum, labels and public access!

hot take: the social norm that "cool" people don’t talk about their jobs is bad for labour organizing because it perpetuates the idea that our work selves are severed from and unrelated to our true selves and it prevents the deepening of community relationships around labour

How your email finds me. Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Dealer networks/rings and fragment strategy 👇

French Revolution document rifle continues! Let’s just not think too much about what these personal papers might be stained with eh 😬😬😬

Me whenever I watch a piece of media where people have archival materials or records and there's nary an #archivist nor records manager to be seen. 📜 #GLAMS #archives

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) memorients.com/events/cfp-b... #CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology

I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it! I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun! A 🧵👇 1/9

Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."

A good archivist is an archivist who knows what to keep. An excellent archivist knows what to discard. Is #Deaccession still controversial?

[Accompagnement de la #Recherche] 💡Découvrez les entrepôts de données #SHS et comment y valoriser vos recherches, avec un focus sur Nakala d'@huma-num.bsky.social 📅 webinaire lundi 7/07 11h Inscription ➡️ tinyurl.com/yywfj3c4 1 évt Printemps de la Donnée 2025 #FAIRdata #nakala #PDLD2025 #openscience

Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18

*sounds the "that was probably AI generated information, that's why you can't find it and now at least 2 library staff have had to do first an initial and then a cross check of that information to confirm it doesn't exist so yes, we've had double time wasted by your time saving efforts" klaxon*

“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”

Has anyone written on the auctioning of goods (especially of the dead) in London in the first half of the seventeenth century? Interested in the work of criers, how estates are sold off etc.

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN! Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library 9–10 Sep UCL @livesandletters.bsky.social This symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives & methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

It’s here! Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...

"Enlightenment roots" sounds like a bad hair day... #18thc

Send help #earlymodern #paleography wizards! This inked out annotations seems to be a price - but it doesn't look English trade to me? #BNF Profitable Boke 1583

I've been given an impossible task: three one-hour lectures as part of a series on "great texts" for masters students in anglophone studies. I get to cover the History part (there's also literature and linguistics). I get to choose three history books, preferably on the anglophone world.

Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

And end-of-week interpretative puzzle for #C18 francophone friends: who is being proposed for a lucrative position, and who is doing the proposing? Is it Rangoni hoping that Macintosh will propose him, or it it vice versa? My attempted transcription in the alt text. Merci!

Critical annotation of the encyclopedia parade - first on show, the entry for SLEEP. 🗃️ #18c

Taking a day off from the writing is good!

Superbly written article about reconciling the digitization of sources with their materiality with a focus to "the many ways in which the creation of sources shape their potential use." By @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Going to Vienna for work in two weeks but I have a half day for fun - recommendations anyone?

I need to rant & praise re: folio numbers in digitized manuscript interfaces. Long boring 🧵 coming, unless you, too, obsess over niche usability matters. Background: when I'm choosing MS images to use for my saints+manuscripts posts, I want to navigate to the page I want, download a high-res image,

Let's hear it for "wear and tear" evidence!

Empress of Blåndings

This book cover for a guide to painting watercolours is pretty much unimprovable

ESTC back, in beta form, at the Consortium of European Lirbaries. Can't find any other information on this rebuild, on plans for it; and I can't see any licensing / copyright info. #History #BookHistory 🗃️

Petition for transparent peer-review to include reaction videos of the author discovering the comments

Scrolling too fast and had a panicky second thinking this was a photo of ice cream in the rare books room...

Send help #earlymodern #paleography wizards! I can read " **** covetous and rowdy to employ any sorry dauber that will work *** than a good workman that will expect a reasonable reward" #18c 🗃️

#cfp I have received some fabulous news about an upcoming conference on the history of publishing, organised by the Universitat de Barcelona. The deadline for paper abstracts is 30 May 2025. Do consider submitting one! #publishinghistory #internationalnetworks

On 25 March 2025 - i.e. today - the book 'World Cities of the Low Countries: Urban History of the Netherlands and Belgium' was published. Several authors, including SHOC historians Anne Winter and Klaas Van Gelder, recount fifty cities that were pre-eminent metropolises.

Drawn to the Library? We've got a few doodles (and other treats) up our sleeves this week! Just don't add any more to our collection items!🙏 This 1619 pamphlet from the Greenlee collection, for instance, has all sorts of early reader interventions! 😲 #NewberryLibrary #NationalLibraryWeek 1/?

Big "we saved so much incunable shelf space by converting them to microfiche" energy there...