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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 10h

Yes — hugely relate to this. ❤️

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 14h

this (from the book referenced in the article, Portrait of an Obsession) articulates why that work is needed, I think - we've been addressing difficult histories from the pov of individual collections, but when they are systemic and fragmented, you also need to take a step back

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 14h

the book that I am writing is (in part) an attempt to formulate a framework to think critically through these issues, by understanding provenance as an active, manipulatable, literary, and political force rather than just a history of ownership dates

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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“a trail of books sold under duress …” “that many of these books were acquired in circumstances morally dubious at best, clearly illegal and unethical at worst, can no longer be ignored.” Say #provenance - you hear the loudest ‘Shush!’ in the library… #bookhistory theconversation.com/when-europes...

theconversation.com

When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting

The forgotten story of how Britain acquired Europe’s rarest books.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lumie do some good sales after Christmas usually!

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Silo is doing such interesting things with conspiracy & how you need to keep readjusting your understanding of the world in relation to new information; the way it constantly undermines conspiratorial characters & people who think they know what’s going on (including the audience)… very good

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

as with so much of this book, it is detailed in a way that seems plausible at first until you stop and think about it for one second (that 'indifferently'!) ...something something scam something something eighteenth century chatgpt

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today in adventures in editing *Formosa*: medicine. 'Their way of Blood-letting is different from what I have seen in Europe' — okay! tell us more! — "they us'd to stand at a little distance from their Patients, and shoot small darts indiffferently into any part of the naked Bodies".

Their way of Blood-letting is different from what I have seen in Europe; formerly they us'd to stand at a little distance from their Patients, and shoot small darts indiffferently into any part of the naked Bodies; but the Japannese have taught them a better way, for now they have incision Knives with which they scarifie the parts grieved;

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sure it's strange to seek inspiration from a fiver but there's something even more bizarre about viewing the natural world as being primarily for very young children.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When is it 'mission accomplished' for the Labour government? When the first big university collapses completely? When the 'knowledge class' is just AI grifters and missile designers?

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reread The Glass Essay last night & found this bit very Prufrock; the yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes…

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

to see your two loves come together so unreachably

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

baby with a goat teat in one hand and a pipe in the other: hell yeah

Therefore tame Deer, Goats and Sheep are our only wet Nurses, which the Children suck till they are about three or four Years old, then they learn to Smoak, though some smoak before they leave the Teat.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thinking about anticipatory grief as a framework for understanding texts that assume the end of the world will come soon / and our own reading of them

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Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oooo, anyone fancy commissioning me to review this? I’m working in health tech with lots of devices with sensors etc, so would be very interesting to see this lineage

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson should win just for these lines. the best writing about love I’ve ever found

Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence.
Then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches.
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognised each other like italics.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We hear from at least one person a week who can’t access an abortion where they live, and who face the additional barrier of domestic abuse. The average grant for someone living with abuse who needs to travel for an abortion is £930. www.asn.org.uk/no-other-way/

asn.org.uk

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Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Truly delighted to see THE MICROSCOPIC MATERIAL RENAISSANCE (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2027) announced: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807076757/ Stay tuned! @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social Research generously funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Immensely stylish. Congratulations!

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The vision was realised to its fullest:

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

& I don’t just mean listening to Rufus Wainwright’s Hallelujah. I was sat in that car captivated by the Baha Men

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

unfortunately when I sit and think about what music gave me this feeling as an 8 y/o, I must conclude it was the soundtrack to Shrek

We discussed Sensual Songs For Eight-Year-Olds. Mine was Old black water, keep on rollin'.
Jason's was Starship: "We Built This City." "When this came on I would leave my body. Is this Allowed? Is this even allowed?"
It's like this. Your parents are driving You home through some newly Minted night-after a concert, Movie, church festival. You are
Resting your head against the window And your heart is leaping out Into some filled-to-the-brim future
Skin. Still, you are being carried, This is necessary to the feeling.

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Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The CFP for *Queer Bibliography: Taking Stock* is now open! Full cfp below and at bit.ly/QB2027CfP (Please feel free to circulate these graphics off Bluesky! They're sized for an IG story.)

call for proposals

Queer Bibliography
TAKING STOCK
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

details overleaf ❧ ❧ ❧

call for proposals

Taking Stock marks the fifth annual Queer Bibliography conference and is a chance to pause and reflect and to queerly attend to the many meanings of “stock” in bibliography.

Where do we find ourselves and our work?
How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations?
From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities?
What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or to reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

❧ abstracts due 29 January ☙

full cfp: https://bit.ly/QB2027CfP

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today in conservation

wander off into the Southwark backstreets to consult the Globe's impressive holdings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books or its considerable research library.
We were glad to see that the new research centre's holdings include plenty of material relating to Globe productions, including a script for the Titus Andronicus staged in 2014 that infamously prompted numerous members of the audience to faint. A script for that Titus is appropriately stained with fake blood, which will continue to pose a challenge to its archi-vists: it will affect the stability of the paper even in storage".

TLS 2 Oct 26

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Solidarity with all at University of Nottingham combatting this violent dismantling of their university

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Simon @simonxix.com · 05/10/2026

I'd invite anyone who wants to read or submit to @cilipmdg.bsky.social's Catalogue & Index to contact Peter Mathieson at principal@ed.ac.uk to ask him to negotiate with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social. I can restore this service in ten minutes once the strike is resolved.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Poole’s Cavern, named after a fifteenth century coin flasher who hid here, which has an area where growth of stalagmites and stalactites is 100x the normal rate

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

*guy who forgot to read Paradise Lost for his censorship job, frantically looking at the first page* yeah it’s all good stuff, no problem. He like, justifies the ways of God to man, so

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography
Taking Stock
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

Call for Proposals

Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work?

Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on
bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we
welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands
Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands.

The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and
career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates,
early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and
booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged.

Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper,
before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome
alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution.

Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a
short bio, by 29 January 2027:

https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8

Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July.

Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com

http://queerbibliography.org

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To Dubai btw. If there could be any doubt

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to a guy explain (to his friends and also the entire train) his new discovery of an amazing loophole. It is charging a holiday to his business as a research expense

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No she’s not.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

me, a literary critic: picking up on some subtle hints about the theme of this album

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was published yesterday (no OA yet though, SIGH). So glad and proud to see it out after so much time and hard work, and a particular thanks to @laurenkassell.bsky.social for her exceptionally helpful comments on an early draft of my chapter. #EarlyModern www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt...

routledge.com

Alice Thornton’s Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman

This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now that’s an interesting pairing!

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really this article has its roots in teaching these two plays together in a Shakespeare course & is also therefore a good reminder that structuring everything chronologically is not always generative.

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