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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

📚 📣 New Bibliography Alert! The SHARP 2024 Bibliography is now live! 🌟 Check it out here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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SHARP Annual Bibliography 2024 – SHARP NEWSsearchexpand

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

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The Lyell Lectures 2025

The 2025 Lyell Lectures, hosted by the Bodleian Libraries and delivered by Professor Leah Price

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The solution is “linen”. Source: cdli.earth/artifacts/34...

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 17/04/2025

Registration is now open for SHARP2025 in Rochester! Join us to think, learn, and talk about "Communities and Values of the Book." 📚 www.library.rochester.edu/rbscp/sharp2...

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SHARP 2025 | River Campus Libraries

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yoerimeessen.bsky.social @yoerimeessen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Quick look at one of the most important books in history. 📖 Now on view as part of Myths and Possibilities at Museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in The Hague. Imaginary worlds, alternative histories, and fictional visions of the future are timeless.

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Esther M. Villegas de la Torre @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

#cfp I have received some fabulous news about an upcoming conference on the history of publishing, organised by the Universitat de Barcelona. The deadline for paper abstracts is 30 May 2025. Do consider submitting one! #publishinghistory #internationalnetworks

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Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture @memoiresdulivre.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“The ways of making sense of the stars in the sky led, in different cultures, to different manifestations of astral religion.” In this article, Hans-Joachim Griep and Eli MacLaren study a possible origin of ‘reading’ in three early advanced cultures: doi.org/10.7202/1009...

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Congratulations to @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social, BSECS-Bodleian Fellow for 2025 for their research exploring how extra-illustration – the practice of pasting images onto books – transformed the transmission of natural knowledge through the Bodleian Libraries’ collections www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen

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Xinyi Wen | People | HPS

Research Project The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Science and Medicine Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship 221115 This thesis analyses the signature of plants, often referred to as the ‘doctri...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 09/04/2025

📚 For book historian Allie Alvis (@book-historia.bsky.social), preserving rare books isn’t just about the objects—it’s about telling their stories. Alvis brings those hidden histories to life through social media, informing & entertaining a growing audience.⁠ blog.archive.org/2025/04/09/v...

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📢 Call for Collaborators Work with SHARP News Bibliographer, Alex Wingate, on the next SHARP News bibliography. The topics is: LGBTQIA+ Book History! 🏳️‍🌈 Deadline to indicate interest in collaborating is April 20, 2025. See the full call and all details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography Call for Collaborators

Call for Collaborators LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography For my final bibliography as SHARP Bibliographer, I am issuing a call for collaborators to work together on a bibliography of monographs, ed...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Who Knew Reading Was SO Dangerous? THIS happened when a Monsieur Oufle got too involved in his demonology research! #FoldoutFriday #NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... Thanks @thewildbluesky.bsky.social for introducing me to this utter insanity of an 18th c. novel!

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/03/2025

‘Tom Thumb. Cinderella. Rapunzel. Red Riding-Hood. They have established themselves as archetypal stories that seem to come from nowhere and to belong to everyone. This is an illusion.’ Colin Burrow on folk tales and the Brothers Grimm: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Colin Burrow · Ogres are cool: Grimm Tales

The only rule of a tale is that everything gets used, even apparently superfluous details – though you’re allowed...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

A detail from an image of a book shop from Johann Amos Comenius: "Orbis sensualium pictus", pinted in 1658 in Nuremberg. You see a room full of boxes and backwardsbooks and a (tiny) bookseller reading behind a desk waiting for customers.

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