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dbellingradt.bsky.social
#bookhistory
jlepler.bsky.social Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 2d
I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️
#skystorians
www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...
Patricia Emison: UNH library plans to discard up to 300,000 ...
UNH’s library plans to discard up to 300,000 volumes, prompting art history professor Patricia Emison to warn that the move could weaken long-term scholarly res...
www.unionleader.com
October 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
nconstantinidou.bsky.social
#Joinus this Thursday 29 October!

#classicalreception #bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians
nconstantinidou.bsky.social Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 8d
📢Early Modern Hellenism Colloquium (VIII)

@hlamers.bsky.social & I will be hosting Elisa Bianchi (The Warburg Institute)
✨From Manuscript Architectures to the Printed Page – the Making of Trincavelli’s Hesiod (Venice, 1537)

📆Thurs 29 Oct. 15:00–16:00 CET, Online

Information to register, below 👇
October 26, 2026 at 3:06 PM
susansontag.bsky.social
#bookhistory (to amplify this post)
October 28, 2026 at 11:14 PM
jlepler.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Please explain. The students whose library school applications I support with letters of recommendation love books. What is going on?
#bookhistory
#skystorians
October 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
When #fishsky and #bookhistory meet.
October 24, 2026 at 9:02 AM
nconstantinidou.bsky.social
#bookhistory
mssprovenance.bsky.social Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social · 5d
I don't think that it's been sufficiently advertised, so I'll draw attention to a nice little display of Psalters in the public area, Blackwell Hall, of the Bodleian's Weston Library.

Manuscripts and printed books (incl. a Bay Psalm Book), in Hebrew, Latin, Middle English, English ...
October 24, 2026 at 8:41 AM
drleonj.bsky.social
Hey, @thegozfather.bsky.social, please post a video so that we can hear the crackle! #bookhistory

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJvX...
October 26, 2026 at 11:32 PM
rumpolebayou.bsky.social
#bookhistory
helengittos.bsky.social Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 3d
And now on to Language and Literacy in Britain and Ireland c. 1000-1330... I'd be very grateful for any suggestions of exciting recent work I and my students should be reading please.

Eadwine Psalter; lead seal matrix from Mareham on the Hill, Lincs (@findsorguk.bsky.social LIN-A450E4).
October 25, 2026 at 2:06 PM
romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Mandrakes from the herbal ‘Erbario’ written in northern Italy in the 15th century. Held by the University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. LJS 419.

#RareBooks #BookHistory #KislakCenter #BotanicalArt #Mandrakes
October 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
(Literally God could give me a vision of Heaven’s universal salvation and I’d be like, what’s the #bookhistory angle on this.)
October 24, 2026 at 11:23 PM
laurajcleaver.bsky.social
We’ve got lots of great #BookHistory events coming up @ies-sas.bsky.social and they’re mostly FREE! Check them out 👇 #SkyStorians

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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All the latest events from the School of Advanced Study.
www.sas.ac.uk
October 26, 2026 at 11:09 AM
wisdompedlars.bsky.social
New, antiquarian book auctions, starting tonight from 8pm

#antiquarian #history #books #maps #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #maps #religion #philosophy #maps #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
October 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
rumpolebayou.bsky.social
#bookhistory

(because newspaper history is bookhistory)
johnobrien.bsky.social John O'Brien @johnobrien.bsky.social · 8d
A new piece from my Substack about eighteenth-century newspaper poems, about a poem by Jonathan Swift that first appeared in *The Tatler.* #c18 #c18th #18thcentury

ttps://literatureinc.substack.com/p/jonathan-swifts-poem-on-a-london?r=jonr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Jonathan Swift’s newspaper poem about a London morning
And, why we should read The Tatler as a newspaper
literatureinc.substack.com
October 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
wisdompedlars.bsky.social
Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
October 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
And if you are into #bookhistory, there are two references to the publisher and engraver of the image included. The "excudit" reference means "printed it" and identifies a publisher/printer; and the "fecit" means "has made it" and is a hint to the one engraving the copperplate. #skystorians
The image with the cat, and highlighted is the "fecit" and "Excudit" reference.
October 26, 2026 at 1:32 PM
jbophoff.bsky.social
...and each week there are new questions about the #materialculture and #bookhistory of the Bible.

Questions about usage, translation, material, cost, access, multilingualism, art, etc., etc.

It's just an invitation for curiosity and the results are always such a fun ride.

So my question is...2/
October 27, 2026 at 3:49 PM
drbibliomane.bsky.social
#BookHistory pals, if you don't know Andy's Book Traces project, you should!
booktraces-public.lib.virginia.edu
Book Traces
booktraces-public.lib.virginia.edu
October 22, 2026 at 2:22 AM
wisdompedlars.bsky.social
IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions
ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
October 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM
malcolmcanmore.bsky.social
I'm delighted (and surprised!) to have been invited to become affiliate faculty at Mizzou Honors College. I look forward to continuing collaborating with the College, especially as a co-PI of the ASH Scholars project on Spanish cartas ejecutorias.
#BookHistory #EarlyModern
October 29, 2026 at 2:45 AM
thethinkingpress.bsky.social
G. H. Schubert, The Symbolism of Dreams (1814): “Does a higher calling lead you here, or idle curiosity; is it right, too, that you are walking here?” From 4. The Hidden Poet.

thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #bookhistory
The cover of The Symbolism of Dreams, by G. H. Schubert, translated by B. C. P. Statema, from The Thinking Press.
October 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
zannavanloon.bsky.social
This is not just a manuscript. This is the printer's copy of the Pegasides Pleyn, a collection of Dutch poems by Jan Baptist Houwaert, printed by the Plantin Press in Antwerp in 1582-1583.

#bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜
First page of the manuscript with the title in capita letters and a subtitle in cursive handwriting. The rest of the page is blank. The page is overal dirty with ink stains The printed title page of the book titels Pegasides Pleyn with a woodcut engraving of Plantin’s printer’s device and beneath his imprint
October 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
thethinkingpress.bsky.social
An 1893 engraving, from the founder's library: The Dragon of Cadmus. The dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus, from Ovid.

In the Illustration Archive: thethinkingpress.org/illustrations
🗃️ #history #bookhistory
The Dragon of Cadmus. The dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus, from Ovid. The book’s uncredited copy, titled “The Dragon of Ancient Fables,” of Hendrick Goltzius’s engraving after Cornelis van Haarlem (Haarlem, 1588).
October 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
oieahc.bsky.social
Archives are built through choices: what to save, where to keep it, and whose stories to center.

Reed Gochberg reviews Derek Kane O’Leary’s 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 in the July 2026 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦: bit.ly/4ySkqyz

#Archives #BookHistory
Book review titled 'Archival Communities' with a circular photo of a person.
October 28, 2026 at 8:37 PM
oldpapercollector.bsky.social
Storm here in the Netherlands. It feels like this engraving by Collaert (1593) after a design from Bernardino Passeri.
☔️🌊🌀

📚🖌️

#bookhistory
#storm
#austen
October 23, 2026 at 3:48 PM
sharpnews.bsky.social
Reminder!

Applications due November 1!

#BookHistory
sharpnews.bsky.social SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 26d
📢 OPPORTUNITY WITH SHARP NEWS

We are looking for someone to join the SHARP News Bibliography team for a 3-year term starting in 2027.

A great opportunity for established scholars, ECRs, or grad students!

See the full call for applicants: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Bibliography
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October 21, 2026 at 6:20 PM