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The School of History offers a supportive and collaborative environment for early career scholars to develop their research careers. For those interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the School, our internal deadline is 5pm on 31 August (1/2)
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So excited that today is publication day for my @boydellbrewer @CatholicismsEM book! Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/pr…
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Hidden receipts, unknown printers and gold-tipped funeral poems. The University of St Andrews is celebrating 30 years of its global book hunting project, the Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc
Read more...👇
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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, @BewareCat and Kaley Kramer.
You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/978100962946…
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The #CfP for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open!
The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025.
Any inquiries can be directed to @A_der_Weduwen
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I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)
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Delighted to see the Spanish translation is published.
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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, Paweł Pietrowcew (@petri_ceicu)!
ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-poles…
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This beautiful book was hand-painted by Sophia MacKenzie in the late 18th-century. She is thought to have taken the book to Kew and worked from life! 🌿
Find out more about this remarkable object and its creator at this free talk on 4 March: bit.ly/41fIdtj
ALT A page of a book painted with flowers
ALT A page of a book painted with flowers
ALT A page of a book painted with flowers
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Tomorrow, we are co-hosting an evening of Lightning Talks for LGBTQ+ History Month! All are more than welcome!
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Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/eve…
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It was great to be in @UniPadova yesterday presenting my work on Anglo-Dutch news management after the Battle of Beachy Head (1690). A huge thank you to the organisers for giving me the chance to speak in such a wonderful setting!
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Posted on behalf of our friends at the Print Matters summer school: bibsoc.org.uk/print-matters-…
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Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the @NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @NoraEpstein @DrKarrSchmidt and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)
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Trying to get any work done the Friday before Christmas (Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa de S. Maria van Lima, 1678, USTC 1537320)
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Living the dream at the @NewberryLibrary today and am fixated on this very odd anonymous Italian-Dutch pamphlet: does anyone recognise this monstrance (ciborium?) woodcut? I’ve never seen one like it!
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How do libraries survive wars, looting, and religious upheaval? My latest review in the Journal of Jesuit Studies looks at "The Baltic Battle of Books", an excellent collection exploring libraries during the Age of Confessionalization. Read more: brill.com/view/journals/jjs/…
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MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY - For the final time this semester, please join us in person or on Teams as we hear from Patrick Graham and @OMDunderdale about counting, blessing, and counting our blessings in EM Britain. DM for link!
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How can we go about finding the reputations of long-forgotten writers? My latest article (doi.org/10.3366/lih.2024.018…) offers some answers. A big thanks to @maxinebranagh, @cleo_ocy @MJRSangster for putting this all together!
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Curious what anyone else thinks of this: these are editions of the same text by the same firm in the same year, one with an imprint ascribing it to the widow and heirs of Jan Cnobbaert, one just to the widow. Why might this be? Inheritance drama? (USTC 1835465 & 1536702)
