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Searsapple @sparrersway.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social : watch out, some wonky steps, but light at the end of the tunnel!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

A detail from a 1591 German pamphlet about "Ketzerei", heresy. You see a man standing, carrying 7 cats. This detail is part of a title page: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00086437

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My colleague Alexander Björklund Hammar has launched his #participatoryscience project about 19th century frescoes at the University of Copenhagen. Look at the artworks and share your thoughts by answering a few questions. #arthistory #classics

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Hidden cultural heritage – antiquity in the University of Copenhagen

This project invites the public to experience the frescoes in the entrance hall of the University of Copenhagen.

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ein Übungsbuch zum Ausstechen und Ausnähenlernen für junge Frauen an der Hauswirtschaftsschule in Berlin (ca 1910er Jahre, bearbeitet sehr hübsch von Grossmutter K)

Das Buch mit einigen bearbeiteten Seiten: bunte Fäden in Linien, Wellen, Kreisen genäht

Und noch mehr, mutet alles graphisch und niedlich an

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Darf in alten Büchern stöbern. Mit diesem lernte die Grossmutter meines Mannes Hauswirtschaftswesen - mit vielen handschriftlichen Notizen. Am liebsten ist mir der Abschnitt zur Nase: „Niemals stecke man die Nase zu tief in eine Blume“

Körperpflege. Ein Merkbüchlein für Mütter und Erzieherinnen. Von Marie Hertzsch, Dresden 1908.

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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Amazing treasures of medieval legal history for a medieval Bank Holiday Monday - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents. #medievalsky

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Zoom link: univr.zoom.us/j/88363725781 (2/2)

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My colleagues Konstantina Tsakona and Panagiotis Leontaridis from the University of Verona will be presenting the results of their wonderful #participatoryscience project on 29 May! They worked with Italian high school students to transcribe a very damaged palimpsest manuscript. #medievalsky (1/2)

Poster for for the International Seminar Virgilio (invisibile) a Verona, happening on 29 May 2026 at Aula T.8, Palazzo di Lingue (University of Verona) and online. Contact paolo.scattolin@univie.it for more information.

Programme for the Virgilio (invisibile) a Verona Workshop.

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Where can I look at searchable digitised French-language incunabula/early prints? Currently using Gallica but finding the OCR a bit unreliable. #bookhistory #medievalsky any pointers appreciated.

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Brian Busby 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 @brianbusby.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

From 1869, the most enjoyable novel read thus far in 2026. You can't go wrong with the crazy world of May Agnes Fleming! (w/ a little something for we @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social fans) #canlit #cdnhist #nbhist #booksky brianbusby.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

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The Lady Vanishes (again and again)

Wedded for a Week; or, The Unseen Bridegroom May Agnes Fleming London: Milner, [n.d.] 248 pages We begin on a dark and stormy November night...

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

William Hales Symons married Milly Miles on 23 Dec 1809 at Clifton St Andrew; witnesses were Philip Miles and Eliza Miles. I suspect she was "Sarah Milly Daughter of Philip & Elizabeth Miles (born 24 Decemr. 1784)" baptised 4 March 1785 at Clifton St Andrew.

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Milly may of course be Emily or Mildred etc, and it's already difficult with just a name in the first place... maybe people interested in #heraldry can find out more?

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm sorry to have only just discovered @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social, so this is a bit late to the party, but here's one of my books previously owned by a woman - in this case Milly Symons, about whom I can find almost nothing, except another of her books for sale on ebay in the US. #bookhistory

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Wonderful, thank you for sharing! afaik there's not that much research on 19th century book plates, and I only got two or three in the submissions from what I remember.

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Books of Duchesses collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of woman book owners. #siteoftheweek

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Books of Duchesses

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

What a wonderful read, thank you for this, Brian! Do remember that you can always send photos of women-owned books my way on here.

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Handschriftenportal @hsprtl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

📣 #CfA: 10. #Sommerkurs für Handschriftenkultur vom 23. bis 29. August 2026 an der @ubleipzig.bsky.social: „Mittelalterliche Handschriften verstehen lernen“. Ausschreibung 👉 www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Re... #medievalsky

Plakat zur Ausschreibung des 10. Sommerkurses für Handschriftenkultur an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (23.–29. August 2026) zum Thema „Mittelalterliche Handschriften verstehen lernen“.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just because I saw and loved this last week.

18th century book frontispiece with a single elaborately penned word "Book" with a flourish and a decorative bow swirled underneath.

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Whitman Archive has lots of letters between Ford and the author, for example this one (link in alt text). Great book find!

Ford, Isabella O.. "Isabella O. Ford to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 January 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.

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Just another engineer @jgseng.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

@crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social So just stumbled upon your project. I have an 1882 edition of Leaves of Grass that appears to have belonged to Isabella O. Ford. Been trying to figure out if this really should be part of a collection and not just sitting on my shelf away from the kids.

Very worn cover of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Inscription reads Isabella O. Ford 23rd October 1882

Title page: Leaves of Grass, Rees Welsh & Co, 1882

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Very cool, thanks for pointing it out! *this* Isabella O. Ford? It's definitely worth tracking down an example of her signature to compare it. As for giving it to a collection - libraries tend to be quite selective when accepting (relatively) recent books, but who knows!

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Isabella Ford - Wikipedia

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's St David's Cathedral in Wales actually... :)

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1886), dedicated to “Belle. from Uncle Edward December 25/91.” csherbook.hypotheses.org/2267 #abookforchristmas #bookhistory #herbook #womenshistory

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This copy of Fireside Fairies by Susan Pindar (1849) was given to "dear little Julie, From Cousin Alice, Christmas 1854" csherbook.hypotheses.org/2133 #abookforchristmas #bookhistory #womenshistory

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The book contains a wonderfully detailed birth record, listing the names, dates and exact times of birth for each of the Barnfield children. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2658 #bookhistory

Soffiea Barnfield Born June 9th 1865 10 minutes to six in the morning

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Since the holidays are coming up, here's a Christmas gift! Mary Lewis (m. Barnfield) got this bible on Boxing Day 1859. #herbook #bookhistory #abookforchristmas

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

(apologies for the typo in the link title, I've fixed it, wordpress is sometimes slow to update previews)

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