Don Fadrique de Toledo's report on recapturing the Brazilian city of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos from the Dutch, as published in Antwerp 400 years ago today.

News published in Antwerp 400 years ago: the emperor asking for money and supplies for the Hungarian frontier, imperial forces gearing up for the Danish phase of the Thirty Years' War, and a brief mention of the Duke of Savoy being forced onto the defensive by the Republic of Genoa.

Happy to have been involved in this, in however small a way. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/Womensbus...

News from 400 years ago: the surrender of Breda.

Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade (8-11 July) Registration open for a few more days: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

400 years ago today, news broke in Antwerp that the surrender of Breda was being negotiated.

Leuven is looking for a #BookHistory collection expert and conservator. And I now REALLY wish I had made a move on the plans to get training and accreditation in library and archive work. Go and get my dreamjob and continuously make me superenvious:

If anybody knows somebody who would want to teach English skills to (mostly) French-speaking undergraduates in Brussels while carrying out research into some aspect of translation or interpreting: jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

News from 400 years ago …

Can't remember if I ever got round to sharing this link: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

News from 400 years ago.

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CFP: Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade Conference (Antwerp University) and display of 16th-century books (Plantin-Moretus Museum) Antwerp, Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 July 2025 Link to follow when available ...