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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

@edibibsoc.bsky.social
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The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.

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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Richard Oosterhoff and Lorna Mitchel gave us a inviting account into the curiosities of the Crawford Collection.
Lorna and Richard in front of a screen showing a catalogue of books from the Crawford collection.
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
John Sibbald presenting "Hortus Conclusus-James Stirling's (1692-1770) books at Garden". What a triumph of an account of the Stirling collection!
John Sibbald presenting in front of a screen showing images of Stirling's books.
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mohamed Oussama Benatallah presenting on "Dismantling the Ptolemaic Hegemony"
Mohamed Oussama Benatallah presenting in front of a screen showing books from the Medici press.
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hannah Lytollis presenting on the graduates of the medical school of the University of Edinburgh and where they ended up working, and if they studied mind-body connections in "Mind, Body and Medicine".
Hannah Lytollis in front of a screen showing a large image of a book saying "graduates in medicine of the university of edinburgh"
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Seán Thomas Kane sharing his paper "Collecting Animal Singularities in the vernacular print" and asking us why Thevet thought that slots were "quite inclined toward luxury".
Seán Thomas Kane presenting in front of a screen with the image of a sloth
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ron McColl (he/him) self declared sub-sub librarian presenting at our seminar today: A local Flora and the Invention of Tradition!
Ron McColl (he/him) in front of a screen showing a presentation describing the division of rhetoric in a seminar room.
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Having achieved 137 likes (& counting?), we are here to assure you that the promised list is shortly forthcoming--just as soon as we gather our thoughts amidst the week's events at the CRC, which proceed apace with another set of workshops, afternoon of talks, & an evening visit to blackiehouse.org
blackiehouse.org
Home - Blackie House Library and Museum
Blackie House Library and Museum Curiosity | Connections | Discovery FOUND!The Lost Portrait of Robert Burns Blackie House Library and Museum is a research centre and exhibition space of some 40,000 i...
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What feeds should we be joining into? (/how do feeds work?) For this week's event #histSTM #philsci #hps #histsci and #libraries all seem relevant, but please tell us if we're missing something...!
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This week's takeover of the EBS socials by the Edinburgh Bibliographical Seminar and Workshop team continues as we head into an exciting pair of panels after an energetic and engaging morning of introductory workshops:
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Also, we love it here on Bluesky, but some books just demand a multi-slide carousel post! Follow us on instagram: @edinbibsoc
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Getting ready for our upcoming workshop! 📜🤫 If this gets 100 likes, we'll drop a thread of our absolute favourite books from the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection.
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hey @ceyingst.bsky.social. Do you know how to collate pin badges? Asking for a friend...
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Specifically tagging in here anyone who might still be lingering in Edinburgh after #eshs-hss, who still wants to go to another talk after a busy week!
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We're very excited about this upcoming workshop & seminar series (next week!), which is bringing bibliographers & book historians from 5 continents to Edinburgh to investigate what historical library registers and catalogues can tell us about global histories of mathematics, science, and technology.
A poster for an event, "Catalogues and Registers as Evidence in the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology. 20 July-24 July 2026" with a link (https://sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/ebsw" and a list of co-sponsors (the UKRI funded SIGMA project, IASH, the University of Eginburgh CRC, Blackie House Library and Museum, History of Science and Medicine, Edinburgh; Edition; and the Albertus Institute)
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
While we may be the oldest bibliographical society, we are admittedly late (fashionably, perhaps?) to Bluesky—but very glad to be here, now!
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We have officially catalogued ourselves in the digital world. 🧐 There's some rare exciting event unfolding next week! Want to join us?
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Q: why don't bibliographers like the woods? A: the leaf count is really hard to do!
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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We have officially catalogued ourselves in the digital world. 🧐 There's some rare exciting event unfolding next week! Want to join us?
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