It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Big book history questions in the excellent finale of #RaceAcrossTheWorld

388 years ago TODAY, a chair was thrown at the Bishop of Edinburgh as he read from a book during a service. Riots followed shortly afterwards. In our latest blog, MLitt student William Lewis explores the book at the heart of the storm: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/a-war-o...

The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li...

We are advertising for a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the history of twentieth-century French imperialism and decolonisation. The deadline for applications is 4 July 2025. You can find out more here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I had a lot of fun last week, discussing the private side of British politics @uio.no, at a brilliant symposium organised by the wonderful @aaronackerley.bsky.social!

Our very own Alex Woolf is on In Our Time on Radio 4 this morning, talking about the Battle of Clontarf. You can listen to it on BBC Sounds here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

Thursday is publication day for 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy Hannah's is the next (and 22nd) title in the RHS New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social

Really looking forward to speaking to the IHR's Low Countries seminar this evening in Bloomsbury. Join us!

A double dose of @basilbowdler.bsky.social, what's not to love?

🎺HEAR YE, HEAR YE: We are happy announce our latest post, 'The Fabric of Everyday Life: Sumptuary Laws in Early Modern France', written by @cmfgillain.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher on the Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 project! Read all about it: ustc.ac.uk/news/the-fab...

We are advertising for Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c. 1100-1500! Deadline for applications is 21 April 2025: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #medievalsky #skystorians

Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

Having an absolute blast undertaking my Maddock Research Fellowship @marshslibrary.bsky.social! If any of you have any Dublin recommendations, let me know!

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

CfP! With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025. zeventiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

One of the best dressed early modernists out there, @aberjack.bsky.social

As Spring approaches, it's the perfect time to plan this year's garden.🌳🌹🪴🌷 In our latest blog post, Book History MLitt student, William Lewis, offers Scottish garden inspiration in ‘A Scottish Country Garden: Horticultural Handbooks in a 1700 Edinburgh Book Auction’ ustc.ac.uk/news/a-scott...

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

Good to be back!

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social! #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

The name's Cool. Benjamin Cool. (1700) @universalstc.bsky.social 3136834.

Look at this *delight* of a #LowCountries programme for @ihr.bsky.social! 🤩 So many faves! @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Jazmine Contreras & Nicolaas Barr, Heleen Wyffels @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social and Danny Noorlander Fridays 5:30 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

Happy New Year! It’s a bitterly cold day in St Andrews, although it clearly has some way to go to match this photograph of the Old Course, taken sixty-five years ago in January 1960. Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-11-26-3

Interested in a career in history and librarianship? We have a fantastic opportunity to come and work as a Trainee Library Assistant in the IHR Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . 2 posts available starting in September 2025 for 1 year. Apply by 31st January 2025.

Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...

Book people: a blog I wrote about my recent research fellowship in Glasgow. Discussing print, errors and Polydore Vergil. I had a blast and found some gems which I hope to share with you soon! #skystorians #bookhistory #earlymodern #books universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/p...

Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

'What remains is, inevitably, only part of the story.' (doi.org/10.3366/lih....)

Articles in this year's RHS Transactions volume include 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1660', bit.ly/4ewYS0B by @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social How far was linguistic diversity a feature of everyday life in London, and how did multilingualism shape social relations? #Skystorians

As of today all the resolutions of the Dutch Republic's States-General are now in a searchable website. A great resource for scholars. #earlymodern 🗃️

The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections. All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2

It took Sir Ridley Scott 157 minutes to explain the rise and fall of #Napoleon. In 1905, students @uniofstandrews.bsky.social had just 15 minutes in this #exam.

Applications for our Ketelby Fellowship in Late Modern History are now open! #skystorians

How can we go about finding the reputations of long-forgotten writers? My latest article (doi.org/10.3366/lih....) offers some answers. A big thanks to @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, @cleoocy.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social for putting this all together!

Yesterday, I had the delight of delivering my first ever lecture to undergraduates!

Thank you to @jilld17.bsky.social and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for all of their support, and of course to our contributors: @ernestjeb.bsky.social, @kgbaston.bsky.social, Ruth Abbott, and Michelle Craig for four fantastic articles. More on Books & Borrowing: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/search/

Our next dive back into the archives concerns the curious case of Cocker’s Arithmetick. In this post, @jamesafox.bsky.social explores why this arithmetic textbook was the butt of a joke #scottishhistory #bookhistory #18thcentury #numeracy scilicet.org.uk/no-laughing-...

A seventeenth-century starter pack, you might say (USTC 3130203).

It was a pleasure interviewing the great @mzukovs.bsky.social on the IHSA podcast. Do give it a listen if you get the chance!

Welcome new followers! Amidst all the excitement of a new platform may I also direct your enthusiasm towards this beautiful 150,000-word behemoth, Gender and the Book Trades, jam-packed with groundbreaking research from 27 brilliant scholars! Out January 15! brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Delighted to see our SI of Renaissance Studies out in the world now!

A treatise, from 1641, on why beer is 'more wholesome' when drunk warm. Not a cause I can get behind.

In a shameless act of cross-posting (forgive me), I thought I would use my first post on here to let you know that the USTC extension to 1700 for the British Isles and North America is now live! Over 70,000 more titles for you to browse. You can find out more here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/extensi...