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Dr Helen Williams

@drwilliams.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow 📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021) 📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024) 📚 Working on a global history of women in book production

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Printing Historical Society have lots of free books to go out to reviewers. We ask for 5-800 words, and you'd have up to a year for the task. Let me know if anything takes your fancy! www.printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk/society-publ...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Top 5 articles from last month in the Shandean journal. Read more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Our Finding Aid of 18th-century women in the Stationers' Company is LIVE! Here I reflect on some of the pitfalls facing the scholar of female apprentices. Let me know if it's useful! www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blo...
A detail from the gutter margins of a manuscript apprentice register, featuring entries of apprentices turned over in an eighteenth-century secretary hand.
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
For #InternationalWomensDay I wrote about the history of women in Stationers' Company, sharing outputs from my @britishacademy.bsky.social Innovation Fellowship with @stationerscomms.bsky.social 📚 animation 📚 online exhibition 📚 finding aid of women in the apprentice registers okt.to/ARVDHM
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Each year, Liverpool University Press offers a free issue of each journal. This year's free Shandean is volume 32 (2021), featuring philosophy, translation, travel, double entendre, the provincial book trade, and Whig politics, & gorgeous images. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/shandean...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We're in paperback! And we have a discount code! *Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture* manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195425/
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Last Chance: Pandemic Artefacts We've extended the deadline for our call for objects to 30 Jan. Our project features items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
*The Shandean* top-read articles in December: The amazing Amelia Dale got a Christmas number one! The top three are open access and you can read more at: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Call for Objects: Pandemic Artefacts We would like to feature items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Excited for the forum tomorrow - everyone welcome! northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-sche...
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trades - a very special conference in the most amazing printing/historic house museum, The Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp ❤️
Courtyard garden of the Plantin-Moretus printing museum, featuring cobbled walkways between box planting and surrounded by early modern architecture.
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
📣 Fully funded AHRC collaborative PhD studentship working with Tyne and Wear Archives 📣 'Wholesaler of the North: The Bewick-Beilby Enterprise and Newcastle Print History' www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...
An engraving by Thomas Bewick of four boys sitting on tombstones, pretending to be cavalry. The foremost is blowing a horn.
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