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Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, has published 'The Last Invasion of England' investigating the Dutch Republics motives behind the daring invasion of England that led to revolution.
Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link!
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Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-pri...
September 28, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, has published 'The Last Invasion of England' investigating the Dutch Republics motives behind the daring invasion of England that led to revolution.
Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-pri...
Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-pri...
Read our newest blog by undergraduate Gitika Sanjay, who explores a rare printed account of homosexuality in London!
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September 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Read our newest blog by undergraduate Gitika Sanjay, who explores a rare printed account of homosexuality in London!
Click the link for more: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/from-th...
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#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers:
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027
Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027
Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
August 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers:
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027
Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027
Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
A solar eclipse on 12 August? We have seen that before!
There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best. (1/2)
#eclipse2026 #solareclipse #astronomy
There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best. (1/2)
#eclipse2026 #solareclipse #astronomy
August 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM
A solar eclipse on 12 August? We have seen that before!
There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best. (1/2)
#eclipse2026 #solareclipse #astronomy
There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best. (1/2)
#eclipse2026 #solareclipse #astronomy
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢
Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews
Deadline: 1 December 2026
#CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27
Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews
Deadline: 1 December 2026
#CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27
July 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢
Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews
Deadline: 1 December 2026
#CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27
Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews
Deadline: 1 December 2026
#CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27
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Happy to share a new chapter, out now as part of the volume 'Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe', discussing the multilingual multimedia reaction to the horrors of the 1620 Valtellina Massacre! #bookhistory cc @universalstc.bsky.social
June 23, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Happy to share a new chapter, out now as part of the volume 'Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe', discussing the multilingual multimedia reaction to the horrors of the 1620 Valtellina Massacre! #bookhistory cc @universalstc.bsky.social
Fancy a riveting tale? Read a story of murder, prostitution, paranoia, and the end of the world!
Told by Demi van Breukelen, PhD candidate with the COMLAWEU, through items available via the USTC
Check it out here!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-ren...
Told by Demi van Breukelen, PhD candidate with the COMLAWEU, through items available via the USTC
Check it out here!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-ren...
June 24, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Fancy a riveting tale? Read a story of murder, prostitution, paranoia, and the end of the world!
Told by Demi van Breukelen, PhD candidate with the COMLAWEU, through items available via the USTC
Check it out here!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-ren...
Told by Demi van Breukelen, PhD candidate with the COMLAWEU, through items available via the USTC
Check it out here!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-ren...
And last, but most certainly not least, its Jeff Cowton (Northumbria University) with ‘Education, Economy, and Engraving: Thomas Bewick's Educational Print in Commercial Context, 1767–1797’ #USTC26
June 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
And last, but most certainly not least, its Jeff Cowton (Northumbria University) with ‘Education, Economy, and Engraving: Thomas Bewick's Educational Print in Commercial Context, 1767–1797’ #USTC26
The final session of the conference is on ‘Specialist Business Models’ and we start with Thomas Noriega (Harvard University), ‘To the University, By the University: Defining the Academic Printer in Seventeenth-Century Leiden’ #USTC26
June 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM
The final session of the conference is on ‘Specialist Business Models’ and we start with Thomas Noriega (Harvard University), ‘To the University, By the University: Defining the Academic Printer in Seventeenth-Century Leiden’ #USTC26
And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26
June 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM
And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26
And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26
June 20, 2026 at 8:52 AM
And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26
Up next, its Gabrielle Hamelin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) with ‘Teaching the Scriptures in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Use and Reception of Abbé Claude Fleury’s Catechismo istorico (Venice, 1705)’ #USTC26
June 20, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Up next, its Gabrielle Hamelin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) with ‘Teaching the Scriptures in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Use and Reception of Abbé Claude Fleury’s Catechismo istorico (Venice, 1705)’ #USTC26
It’s the final day of our conference, and we start with a session on ‘Controversy and Censorship’. Our first paper is from Saba Alkuwari (University of St Andrews): ‘The efforts and impact of Catholic censorship in controlling the dissemination of Philipp Melanchthon’s educational books’ #USTC26
June 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM
It’s the final day of our conference, and we start with a session on ‘Controversy and Censorship’. Our first paper is from Saba Alkuwari (University of St Andrews): ‘The efforts and impact of Catholic censorship in controlling the dissemination of Philipp Melanchthon’s educational books’ #USTC26
And for the last paper of the day, its Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz (University of Wrocław), ‘Printing Devotion, Educating Clergy: D. Henrique’s Editorial Programme in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Évora’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
And for the last paper of the day, its Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz (University of Wrocław), ‘Printing Devotion, Educating Clergy: D. Henrique’s Editorial Programme in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Évora’ #USTC26
For our final session of the day, on ‘Confessional Debates in Education’, we start with Gunilla Eschenbach (German Literature Archive Marbach/University of Stuttgart): ‘Rewriting the Catechism: Pietist Pedagogy and Child Agency around 1700’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
For our final session of the day, on ‘Confessional Debates in Education’, we start with Gunilla Eschenbach (German Literature Archive Marbach/University of Stuttgart): ‘Rewriting the Catechism: Pietist Pedagogy and Child Agency around 1700’ #USTC26
Finally, its Jonathan Privett-Mendoza (University of York) with ‘Language and Power: A Critical Examination of the Spanish-Catholic Missionaries' Role in Shaping Filipino Grammars’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Finally, its Jonathan Privett-Mendoza (University of York) with ‘Language and Power: A Critical Examination of the Spanish-Catholic Missionaries' Role in Shaping Filipino Grammars’ #USTC26
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After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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The second paper of this session is ‘Travelling Books for Learning Cyrillic (exemplars of early prints in Britain and Ireland)’ from Oleksandr Okhrimenko (University of Birmingham) #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The second paper of this session is ‘Travelling Books for Learning Cyrillic (exemplars of early prints in Britain and Ireland)’ from Oleksandr Okhrimenko (University of Birmingham) #USTC26
After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 1:12 PM
After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26
And the final paper of this session, from Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University/King’s College London), is ‘Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes while organising a transnational Literary Textbooks/Teaching Archive’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 10:55 AM
And the final paper of this session, from Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University/King’s College London), is ‘Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes while organising a transnational Literary Textbooks/Teaching Archive’ #USTC26
Following the coffee break, we’re back with another session on ‘Colonial and Missionary Print’. The first paper comes from Tiara Ulfah (University of Hamburg), ‘Printing Education in Colonial Singapore: The Making of Malay Vernacular Readers’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Following the coffee break, we’re back with another session on ‘Colonial and Missionary Print’. The first paper comes from Tiara Ulfah (University of Hamburg), ‘Printing Education in Colonial Singapore: The Making of Malay Vernacular Readers’ #USTC26
And last but not least, its Ciara Sheehan (University of Limerick) with ‘The Manuale Scholarium in print: pedagogical function, and the representation of the akademische Deposition in the late medieval university’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 9:25 AM
And last but not least, its Ciara Sheehan (University of Limerick) with ‘The Manuale Scholarium in print: pedagogical function, and the representation of the akademische Deposition in the late medieval university’ #USTC26
We kick off the third day of our Print and Education conference with a session on ‘University Print’. First up, it’s the brilliant Giovanni Petrocelli on ‘From lecture hall to printing press: Student mediation and the circulation of medical teaching at Sixteenth-Century Padua’ #USTC26
June 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM
We kick off the third day of our Print and Education conference with a session on ‘University Print’. First up, it’s the brilliant Giovanni Petrocelli on ‘From lecture hall to printing press: Student mediation and the circulation of medical teaching at Sixteenth-Century Padua’ #USTC26
And last but not least, we have Geoffrey Day with ‘Thomas Dyche’s A Guide to the English Tongue: why have so few copies survived?’ #USTC26
June 18, 2026 at 3:36 PM
And last but not least, we have Geoffrey Day with ‘Thomas Dyche’s A Guide to the English Tongue: why have so few copies survived?’ #USTC26