Fabulous #bookhistory 🧵

I’ve now received one of those AI-generated emails offering to promote my book. Reads a bit weirdly since *Old Books & New Histories* is 20 years old! But I can see how an academic author might fall for it.

Just a quick reminder that proposals for VPR's upcoming special issue on "Keywords" are due TODAY!

Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...

I’m fascinated by this subset of #Victorian #suffragists. How many were like Miss Brabrook, unsung, obscure, but not unremarkable?

To mark International Women's Day, here's a celebration of four of pioneering women with Glasgow connections. They are: Margaret Easton Anderson, a graudate of Glasgow University and the first woman to practice law in the UK; Cont./ #glasgow #internationalwomensday #glasgowhistory

For #InternationalWomensDay, introducing Eliza Margaret Brabrook (1866-1927) whose editorial and management skills brought the *Women’s Gazette* to a close in 1892 after Eliza Orme’s departure. Subeditor for a London publisher; active Liberal and feminist; daughter of a prominent intellectual.

Mon premier article de fond sur la #découvrabilité dans l'écosystème du livre vient de paraître dans la revue Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture, sous la direction de Julien Lefort-Favreau (U. Queen’s) et Sarah Brouillette (U. Carleton) : doi-org.ezproxy.usherbrooke.ca/10.7202/1122....

Wonderful 🧵 on Scottish medical women. Can’t help but add that Flora Masson was Eliza Orme’s niece.

Latest in the @uoftpress.bsky.social series, Studies in Book and Print Culture. #bookhistory

Really interesting (and optimistic) 🧵. But I notice nobody refers to this work as #bookhistory. Is this significant?

Interesting article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social about missionary periodicals. When I first joined @rs4vp.org I was going to do something with the Bible Society’s *Monthly Register*. Someone still should. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Studies in Book Culture's latest issue is now available. Directed by Sarah Brouillette and Julien Lefort-Favreau, the issue is entitled "The Politics of Visibility and Discoverability in Contemporary Publishing". You can read it here : www.erudit.org/.../2....

I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Surprised and delighted today to find a review (by Courtney Smith) in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social of my *Eliza Orme’s Ambitions*. @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Eliza Orme was born #otd in 1848. Famously sensible and formidably competent, she disliked the excesses of Victorian Christmas cards, preferring “a nice hearty letter”.

Just received my series editor’s copy of Queer Print Cultures. #bookhistory utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Victorian periodicals research, old-school.

Nervous History MA student starting a #Victorian Studies program that required one course in English. The one with familiar canonical names was full, so I had to take the one that introduced me to a bunch of writers I’d never heard of, but also #bookhistory.

#bookhistory 🧵

An optimistic dystopia, a romance of the past, a cautionary tale? thoughts on Ian McEwan's What We Can Know

This reminds me of when I taught undergrads about the practice of history by genre — how to read an article, an encyclopedia entry, a chapter, etc. A #bookhistory approach.

Boosting this reference to Trish Loughran’s important chapter.

📚 New Book Review! Ellen Barth reviews: The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020, edited by Nicola Wilson et al. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Publishing #WomeninPublishing #WomeninPrint #FeministBookHistory

A #bookhistory academic’s review of @biblioasis.bsky.social bestseller, The Notebook. 📒. 🇨🇦 sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

This arrived in the mail today. My essay analyzes Greg’s Bibliography of English Printed Drama and its idiosyncratic taxonomies for “Collections,” which prioritized canonical authors like Shakespeare but completely excluded dramatists like Margaret Cavendish.

Writing about teaching book history:

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?

Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025. sharpweb.org/grants-prize...

For Remembrance Sunday, a short reflection on the life and death of my great grandfather in the twenty years after his return. botheringmiancestors.substack.com/p/the-trench...

“She spent her spare time studying law”!

"Here is an exciting new way to think about the century that produced Darwinism." Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @vicmanch.bsky.social

I've seen an alternative argument going around that academics should instead step back and essentially see how things play out with AI, having confidence that if it sticks around (and doesn't go the way of the MOOC) it'll be adapted to academic needs and vice versa, like email, the internet +

Are you a social media savvy book historian with a talent for sharing news in the digital sphere? We might have a role for you! SHARP News is looking for a new editor, details below👇🏼

Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Knowledge of 19th century women’s lives is the reward of painstaking research.

For 150 years, Africville, sitting right next to Halifax, was a thriving Black Canadian community. Halifax refused to provide city services, and eventually forced residents to move as they bulldozed their homes. This is the story of that community. 🧵1/12

It’s not the same point, but related: our academic advisor looked at the high school records of who did/didn’t do well in their first 2 years as History u’grads. Among the ones doing well, high HS grades in English were a far better predictor of who did well in uni History. They’d learned to write.

This (wonderful, inspiring) 🧵 again makes me think that departments of History should teach skills in non-fiction prose about the past — the way departments of English teach creative writing. #bookhistory #authorship

Influencers of a bygone era: How late Victorian women artists mastered the art of networking

📣 Registration is open for 'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblesoccollfuture.bsky.social on 26&27 Sept Become part of a network of scholars and experts in Religious Studies, material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/

Required reading for #bookhistory and “fembib. Collaboration, mentorship, “data intimacy” and research.

#bookhistory and library history. (Although as we’re reading on SHARP-L, the card catalogue is far from obsolete.)

In Kate’s contribution to our “Research in Reflection Series” she reflects on how the WPHP (delightfully, inevitably) shaped her her PhD work—and provided her with the opportunity to drop books in the British Library. Oops. Read about her ongoing love story with the WPHP here: tinyurl.com/5k55cpxm

#bookhistory Yvan Lamonde was co-general editor of the History of the Book in Canada. 📕