Congratulations to the editors and all who contributed to this long-awaited first vol (2 pts) of the History of the Book in Scotland! Great achievement. Proud to be included on Esther Inglis in pt.2, with her portrait highlighting the cover of pt.1. #bookhistory @edinburghup.bsky.social

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

The Guthlac Roll is back online! A 13th-century parchment roll from Crowland Abbey telling the story of the life of St Guthlac in 18 drawings (Harley Roll Y 6) You can consult the whole roll through the online catalogue record: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

Hello, have you missed us? We’d love to hear from you.   Tell us your favourite British Library manuscript and we’ll post an image for you.

The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I. 0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️ cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Here is @biblioraphic.bsky.social talking about evidence of how the Cotton Library was bound (red, green, blue, black, ancient and archival bindings!). There are Cotton MSS in my own research, so I’m very excited to learn more from Raphaëlle/ask her millions of questions #BuiltWithBooks

What are you reading this week bluesky? #books #booksaboutbooks #manuscripts

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Please enjoy looking at our new acquisition @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, the French New Testament, formally owned by Jean le Bon, King of France & Humfrey Duke of Gloucester, illuminated by the Cholet Master. Now on Digital Bodleian: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529...

What a brilliant (some might say… illuminating) day, can’t thank the Bodleian or the speakers enough. They covered an incredible range of subject, from the origins of the manuscript itself to Anglo-French exchanges in the medieval period (1/2)

Happy #worldbookday to this diva

Association of Research Libraries Calls for Protection of US National Archives and Records Administration 📜 www.arl.org/news/associa...

Pleasure as always, PBFA

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Calling for #bookish recipe suggestions! I fancy bringing something into the office. Picture of my deplorable attempt at making a galette des rois inspired by the BL’s Medieval Women design to grab attention. Still better than last year’s Cotton MS Claudius A III thanks to the homemade puff pastry

Taking a break from reading to play tourist. Renovations going well, I’d say!

Wonder what this pile of blocky presents might be…

The fabulous feathery team in @unileiden.bsky.social is organising a conference on Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in #EarlyModern English Manuscripts. Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden Deadline abstracts: 20 December All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...

I have been going through and deleting the content I’ve uploaded to the other place, and in the process stumbled back on a thread created as a response to @arbookworm.bsky.social who was asking some very interesting questions about identifying and manuscripts, and if Cotton class marks were fluid

Interested in seeing what the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) annual conference is like? Scholarships are available for first-time attendees. Apply by December 13th! Info: web.cvent.com/event/eec2eb...

I'm feeling intellectually lazy, so: Does anyone know of a thesis or study on the libraries of new training colleges for modernising pre-industrial professions in the 19th century. e.g. Medical/legal/military college libraries? #LibHist #BookHist

Made a medieval manuscripts and book history starter pack (broadly defined). It is definitely not exhaustive so please comment and I'll add you and the accounts that you think are missing! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

go.bsky.app/CtyRqgj Please share widely & reply below if you'd like to be added📚!

Starter pack for #BookHistory in Spanish/Spanish-speaking world! Starter pack para #HistoriaDelLibro en español y el mundo hispano-hablante ¡Comenta o envíame un msj si quieres ser añadid@! go.bsky.app/EHFvrnW

Starting again on here! A few behind the scenes shots from our Medieval Women exhibition.

Having said I’m interested in #bookhistory and #libraryhistory I should probably introduce myself. Hi, I’m Raphaëlle. I’m doing a PhD on the organisation, binding, and generally the history of the Cotton manuscripts at the British Library (specifically @BLMedieval but they aren’t over here yet)

Trying to find other #bookhistory and #libraryhistory people on here! I’m bound to have missed some (pun intended), so please do pen a little message if you have some names to add to the list! go.bsky.app/L7iqMpF

#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Trying to play « spot the medievalist or early modernist » on the train to the @memrn.bsky.social conference

As the sun sets on Canterbury Cathedral, so the BOOKS ACROSS BORDERS conference comes to a close. Thank you to all of the speakers, and all of the attendees (both online and in-person), who joined us today - and to our fantastic collaborators at @memsunikent.bsky.social Bookscapes!

A wonderful little display at Canterbury Cathedral for our Bookscapes and @mediumaevum.bsky.social joint event, with help from @memsunikent.bsky.social

Join the amazing Amrita Sen in conversation with the exquisitely erudite & excellent @rentravailer.bsky.social as they discuss Das’s landmark book, #CourtingIndia, Online, February 23, 2024, 18.00GMT #SRSlyGood www.rensoc.org.uk/event/unmaki...

📢NEWS📢 Our first in person project talk is next Tuesday 13 Feb, University of Plymouth. Laura Sangha, 'English Wills and Attitudes to Possessions, c 1540-1790' £6, £4 concession, FREE to UoP students via SPiA, & HA members #EarlyModern 📇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-wi...

#CfP a thread! Thanks for the recommendations of communities to find conference announcements and calls for paper a few weeks back! Since I’m still seeing announcements on the other place that aren’t popping up here, I’ll share them below. Please share any that I will most certainly miss too!

Funded PhD - The Mind of Margaret Cavendish #skystorians 🗃 #earlymodern margaretcavendishsociety1.wordpress.com/2024/02/08/f...

Any recommendations of accounts that post about seminars, calls for papers, conferences, and other events? Primarily on the history of collecting, history of the book (already following BibSoc!), and late Tudor/early modern world but I’m not too fussy #history #earlymodern #bookhistory #PhD

For once, loving Monday. Thank you so much to everyone who has been working hard to bring back services. Library people rock bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...