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St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you know who this student might be? We are trying to trace the identity of this part-Māori student, who attended the University of St Andrews in the 1860s. You can read more about this here: www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-ao-m... Courtesy of University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ID ALB-1-65

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Call for Papers
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade
University of Edinburgh
6-7 May 2027

Over the past two decades, women’s book history and feminist bibliography have exploded with renewed interest. Even so, women’s work is still to an extent seen as an exception or curiosity. It examines them from a gender history perspective, asking to what extent their relationships were influenced or determined by constructions of femininity. Proposals should therefore involve a dimension of gender analysis beyond simply the inclusion of female subjects.

This conference will seek to explore (but is not limited to) to the following themes and questions:

*Gendered Networks. To what extent were professional book trade networks gendered? How did these networks intersect with other types of women’s networks, whether they be familial, friendly, religious, political, or intellectual?
*Identity and Representation. Did women express professional solidarity with other women, and how did this manifest? How did women’s self-representation in imprints and paratext differ from men’s?
*Legal and Structural Considerations. In what ways were women’s professional networks dependent on legal structures of inheritance in their region, or participation in guilds? How did these networks stretch across economic and class divisions?
*Digital Approaches. Can digital humanities tools such as network visualisation effectively help document these relationships?

The conference will also host the launch of a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade.

Contributions will be published in a volume of conference proceedings, to be submitted by the end of 2027.

Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, virtual attendance will be available as well.

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Really looking forward to talking all things @universalstc.bsky.social at this tommorow!

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Big book history questions in the excellent finale of #RaceAcrossTheWorld

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

388 years ago TODAY, a chair was thrown at the Bishop of Edinburgh as he read from a book during a service. Riots followed shortly afterwards. In our latest blog, MLitt student William Lewis explores the book at the heart of the storm: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/a-war-o...

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li...

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St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We are advertising for a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the history of twentieth-century French imperialism and decolonisation. The deadline for applications is 4 July 2025. You can find out more here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) - AO1547XXRS

Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) - AO1547XXRS, School of History Salary: £38,249 - £45,413 per annum Start date: 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter Fixed term: Until 31 July 202...

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I had a lot of fun last week, discussing the private side of British politics @uio.no, at a brilliant symposium organised by the wonderful @aaronackerley.bsky.social!

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St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our very own Alex Woolf is on In Our Time on Radio 4 this morning, talking about the Battle of Clontarf. You can listen to it on BBC Sounds here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Battle of Clontarf

Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 08/04/2025

Thursday is publication day for 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy Hannah's is the next (and 22nd) title in the RHS New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social

Front cover of 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England' by Hannah Jeans, which shows a line drawing of a woman reading

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Really looking forward to speaking to the IHR's Low Countries seminar this evening in Bloomsbury. Join us!

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🎺HEAR YE, HEAR YE: We are happy announce our latest post, 'The Fabric of Everyday Life: Sumptuary Laws in Early Modern France', written by @cmfgillain.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher on the Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 project! Read all about it: ustc.ac.uk/news/the-fab...

A seventeenth-century courtier dressed in a simpler style with fancier clothes he has abandoned bing arranged on a chair by a servant. The setting is an early modern interior with a tapestry on the wall and an open leaded window behing the courtier. Chairs line the wall. Below a poem in French explains the courtier's costume changes in response to a sumptuary edict.

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Having an absolute blast undertaking my Maddock Research Fellowship @marshslibrary.bsky.social! If any of you have any Dublin recommendations, let me know!

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

The title page of a sixteenth century book entitled: 'LEXICON LATINOPOLONI-CUM EX OPTIMIS LATINAE LINGVAE SCRIPTORI-BUS CONCINNATUM, which is dated to 1564. There are some faded manuscript annotations under the main title of the text.

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Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

CfP! With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025. zeventiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of the best dressed early modernists out there, @aberjack.bsky.social

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

As Spring approaches, it's the perfect time to plan this year's garden.🌳🌹🪴🌷 In our latest blog post, Book History MLitt student, William Lewis, offers Scottish garden inspiration in ‘A Scottish Country Garden: Horticultural Handbooks in a 1700 Edinburgh Book Auction’ ustc.ac.uk/news/a-scott...

a geometric plan for a garden divided equally in a grid with four different patterns in each quadrant

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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Gender and the Book Trades

"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social! #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

Screenshot of an article: 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England'. Abstract: 'This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions submitted to the magistrates across fifteen jurisdictions with “sessions of the peace” in England, with nearly 1,000 dating from before 1640. Over the course of the early seventeenth century many, if not most, English parishes witnessed attempts to persuade the authorities through collective petitioning. Groups of neighbors across the kingdom formulated their grievances, organized subscription lists, and articulated their own role in the polity as “the inhabitants” or “the parishioners” of a particular community. In so doing, they not only directly shaped their own “little commonwealths” but also unintentionally helped to develop habits of political mobilization in a crucial period of English history.'

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The name's Cool. Benjamin Cool. (1700) @universalstc.bsky.social 3136834.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Look at this *delight* of a #LowCountries programme for @ihr.bsky.social! 🤩 So many faves! @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Jazmine Contreras & Nicolaas Barr, Heleen Wyffels @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social and Danny Noorlander Fridays 5:30 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

Spring Term

31 January Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens), ‘Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the early modern Low Countries’
• Wolfson Room 2 and online

14 February Jazmine Contreras (independent) and Nicolaas Barr (Washington): ‘Proprietary Victims: Holocaust Commemoration and Right-Wing Consolidation in the Netherlands’
• Online only

28 February Heleen Wyffels (STCV), ‘Women, gender and social status in the early modern printing house’
• Wolfson Room 2 and online

28 March John Gallagher (Leeds), ‘The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?’
• Wolfson Room 2 and online

Summer Term

23 May Jeroen Puttevils (Antwerp), ‘Back to the Future: what can we learn about future thinking in the past from late medieval and early modern merchant correspondences from the Low Countries’
• Wolfson Room 2 and online

6 June Danny Noorlander (Oneonta), ‘The Dutch Garrison on the Gold Coast in the 17th Centur

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St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Happy New Year! It’s a bitterly cold day in St Andrews, although it clearly has some way to go to match this photograph of the Old Course, taken sixty-five years ago in January 1960. Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-11-26-3

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Interested in a career in history and librarianship? We have a fantastic opportunity to come and work as a Trainee Library Assistant in the IHR Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . 2 posts available starting in September 2025 for 1 year. Apply by 31st January 2025.

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Graduate Trainee Library Assistant - Institute of Historical Research:London Senate House

The University of London

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...

Ten-year privilege granted by the Privy Council to Gerard Mercator for his world map (mappa universalis),1569, Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Arch. 1179, no. 103.

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Fred Schurink @fredschurink.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at The Universit...

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/12/2024

Articles in this year's RHS Transactions volume include 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1660', bit.ly/4ewYS0B by @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social How far was linguistic diversity a feature of everyday life in London, and how did multilingualism shape social relations? #Skystorians

Image of the opening page of the 2024 Transactions article 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1660', written by John Gallagher, University of Leeds.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

As of today all the resolutions of the Dutch Republic's States-General are now in a searchable website. A great resource for scholars. #earlymodern 🗃️

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/12/2024

The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections. All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2

Image of 20 book covers from the Royal Historical Society's New Historical perspectives book series for early career historians.

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It took Sir Ridley Scott 157 minutes to explain the rise and fall of #Napoleon. In 1905, students @uniofstandrews.bsky.social had just 15 minutes in this #exam.

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St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Applications for our Ketelby Fellowship in Late Modern History are now open! #skystorians

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How can we go about finding the reputations of long-forgotten writers? My latest article (doi.org/10.3366/lih....) offers some answers. A big thanks to @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, @cleoocy.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social for putting this all together!

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yesterday, I had the delight of delivering my first ever lecture to undergraduates!

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Thank you to @jilld17.bsky.social and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for all of their support, and of course to our contributors: @ernestjeb.bsky.social, @kgbaston.bsky.social, Ruth Abbott, and Michelle Craig for four fantastic articles. More on Books & Borrowing: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/search/

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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Scilicet - History of Knowledge @scilicetblog.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Our next dive back into the archives concerns the curious case of Cocker’s Arithmetick. In this post, @jamesafox.bsky.social explores why this arithmetic textbook was the butt of a joke #scottishhistory #bookhistory #18thcentury #numeracy scilicet.org.uk/no-laughing-...

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No laughing matter? The curious case of Cocker’s Arithmetick | Scilicet

Why was Cocker’s Arithmetick, the most successful arithmetic textbook of its day, the butt of a joke?

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A seventeenth-century starter pack, you might say (USTC 3130203).

Title-page of the The English Historical Library by William Nicholson (1696)

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It was a pleasure interviewing the great @mzukovs.bsky.social on the IHSA podcast. Do give it a listen if you get the chance!

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Welcome new followers! Amidst all the excitement of a new platform may I also direct your enthusiasm towards this beautiful 150,000-word behemoth, Gender and the Book Trades, jam-packed with groundbreaking research from 27 brilliant scholars! Out January 15! brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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Gender and the Book Trades

"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 15 Jan 2025 by Brill.

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Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Delighted to see our SI of Renaissance Studies out in the world now!

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Dr Jacob Baxter @ernestjeb.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

A treatise, from 1641, on why beer is 'more wholesome' when drunk warm. Not a cause I can get behind.

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