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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some really important questions here about access, storage, presentation, catalogue records & the stories waiting to be told. Thanks @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social for bringing this to those of us not in the room too! Lots of food for thought

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

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EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It was lovely to reflect on my PhD experience with @uolhsspgr.bsky.social as part of this new series! Below is part 1 - you can watch the full video: liverpool.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

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Life after PhD #4 Amy

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

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Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO) | Department of History | University of Liverpool

Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online is the result of a five-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project investigating the contribution of books to social, cultural and political change in...

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

Researchers in Museums: Collections and Archives Workshop Series. Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds. 13 May; 18 June; 9 July; 1-4pm. I am delighted to be working with Thackray Museum of Medicine to host three workshops for ‘Researchers in Museums’. These interactive workshops offer early career researchers an opportunity to learn about the potential of museum collections to enrich their research. Each workshop will include:

‘Cancer in the Collections’: a unique insight into how one researcher, Dr Claire Turner (Durham University) uses Thackray’s extensive collections and archives to support her own research.
Stores Tour: an exclusive guided tour of Thackray’s stores by its Collections Team, with the opportunity to learn more about the history of the museum and the objects, books, and archival materials it holds.
Research Room Time: a chance to look in greater depth at books, objects and archival materials drawn from the museum’s collections.
Personal Research: option to request and view an object related to your own research.

Each session can accommodate up to 8 attendees, each of whom will receive a £20 bursary towards travel to the workshop.

To be eligible to attend, you must be:
An early career researcher (MA, PhD, or within two years of finishing the PhD)
Working broadly within the field of medical humanities

Expressions of interest should include a short summary of your research, how you meet the workshop criteria, and your preferred workshop date (max 250 words). All EOIs should be submitted to claire.o.turner@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 17 April.

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries. Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...

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Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces

This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading

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Hematopolitics @hematopolitics.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

REGISTRATION OPEN! Registration is now open for our second symposium, 'The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion'. Join us for a fantastic day of enriching talks, networking, plus a tour of our new exhibition 'Blood: Ties and Tensions'. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hematopoli...

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Hematopolitics Symposium 2

The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies and Futures

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces

This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading

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National Trust Research @ntresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Job Details

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

New insights from the British Academy funded-researcher career-tracking report, conducted by @vitae-news.bsky.social highlight the long-term impact of early-career funding on researcher careers in the UK. Learn more: buff.ly/wx83rki

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Pilot career tracking initiative offers evidence-based model for long-term research career development

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜

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English Short Title Catalogue

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Is this something that people would be interested in if I looked into setting something up? I'm thinking an ECR/PGR interdisc medical humanities network with monthly WIP sessions for articles/books/chapters & a group chat to share opportunities etc. Please share with relevant ppl!

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝 Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out! 🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

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WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A really great few days in Scotland catching up with friends and making new connections. It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...

Image of a book case filled with 8 eighteenth-century books. 3 have just the spine displayed. 5 are open to show inscriptions in the hand of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today is the day! I'm thrilled to have been asked to present this year's annual Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading communities in historic house libraries. If you are in Glasgow tonight at 5pm then please come along or join online from anywhere. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

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2025 Dr Johanna Green Annual Lecture

Thursday 24 April 2025

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'll be in Glasgow this Thursday to present my research into readers in historic house libraries in Glasgow. Johanna's work inspired me to chose Glasgow for my masters in 2018 & I'm honoured to have been invited to give this lecture. In person & online: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

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2025 Dr Johanna Green Annual Lecture

Thursday 24 April 2025

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11/03/2025

We've found a book. It's called Yorkshire, Past and Present and includes a history of the three ridings (soz South Yorkshire, this is 1870 you don't exist) and some magnificent prints of landmarks and equally stupendous facial hair. Join us on a tour of God's Own County...

We are looking at the front of an elaborately embossed book with gold Coats of Arms of different cities of Yorkshire.

We are looking at a front page of book which says Yorkshire Past and Present: A history and a description of The Three Ridings of the Great County of York.

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

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Full and Final Edition Now Available

News article - 24 February 2025

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 06/03/2025

Today is #WorldBookDay! Join us as we go through @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social collection to discover what is lurking in their 13,708,007 books! 📚

A picture of the Bodleian library with a blue box over the top. The text in the box reads: The Bodleian Libraries has a whopping 13,708,007 books in their collection.

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our rare book collections are available for EVERYONE to use for research or enjoyment in our reading room! With more than 50,000 books published between 1471 and 2024, we have something for everyone. Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/books #WorldBookDay #RareBooks #Library #Exeter

Shelf of small books in the Syon Abbey Library. Most have parchment bindings and hand-made modern orange labels created by the community of Syon Abbey.

Shelves of books in the Chris Brooks Collection. The books in this photograph were written for children and young adults in the 19th and early 20th century, and many of them have colourful and illustrated bindings.

Shelves of late 19th and 20th century books in the Hypatia Collection of books and journals by and about women. Many of the books have colourful or illustrated spines.

Several shelves of old and very large leather-bound books in the Dodderidge (Barnstaple) Parish Library. The books have raised bands or ridges along the spines, which were created during the binding process and show the structure of the cord-bound books.

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked #libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hi! We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org. Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!

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SHARP NEWS – An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishingsearchexpand

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I'm delighted to share that I've been curating a digital exhibition, entitled '“It’s in our blood”: Identity, Blood Donation, and Transfusion', as part of my work with @hematopolitics.bsky.social. The first few pages are now live! hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...

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Digital Exhibition – Hematopolitics

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR. Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As part of Reading the Room I've been running workshops with stakeholders on NT library collections - how to search them, how to respond to the needs of different audiences & stories they hold. Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

First day back at my desk after #BSECS2025 last week. Had a great time sharing the first snippets of research into Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's now dispersed collection of 250+ books.

Image of a PowerPoint slide given at BSECS conference. The background features a finger pointing at Lady Mary's signature 'Ma' and annotation 'Common place' on the flyleaves of a book. Text reads 'Reconstructing Dispersed Collections. The Library of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu'

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Live scenes from #TheTraitors Castle 🏰

A Medieval manuscript illumination showing monks in prayer, wearing black hooded cloaks.

A Medieval manuscript illustration showing Alexander the Great being carried in a cage by Griffins, above a wooded landscape.

A Medieval illumination showing three women attacking a man with clubs.

A Medieval illumination showing the Grim Reaper wielding a scythe and being carried in a cart pulled by bulls.

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

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Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press

What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

💫 SHE’S HERE! The Anne Lister Soc’y April program(me)! NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music. Details at link; registration info soon! english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l... (📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern

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Early Modern Female Book Ownership

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Excited to be in Oxford for #BSECS2025 & really looking forward to sharing some new work on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's dispersed library collection tomorrow afternoon

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

📣 We are hiring! Research Assistant for digital data acquisition and data management (100% position until 31 December 2028) in the Oldenburg team in Germany. Become part of our team and help shape the future of the Prize Papers Project! Deadline: 15 January 2025. #earlymodern #history #DH 🗃️

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Research Assistant for digital data acquisition and data management in the digitization project Prize Papers: Indexing - Digitization - Presentation // University of Oldenburg

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), edited by myself, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, and @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, is now out in the world and ready to read! www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.

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Library & Information History: Vol 40, No 3

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