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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30

23 Oct Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’

20 Nov Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’

18 Dec Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is no joy like getting excited, engaged students into the weeds of queer historiography in the very first class, this one hits every single time (Trans Care by Hil Malatino, p. 57)

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finally experienced the classic bibliographer's nightmare of waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat realising that you said 'variant state‘ multiple times in front of a large group of people when you actually meant 'variant issue‘

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Join us on 15 September, 8:00-9:30 pm CEST, for our very first Nottebohm Talks! Former Nottebohm Fellows will present their research conducted in Antwerp thanks to our Nottebohm Fellowship. More info & registration: sl1nk.com/ti9htou Meet our speakers! 👇1/ #rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 📜📚💙

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Online Nottebohm Talks | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

Every year, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus offer a short-term Nottebohm fellowship to two researchers, with the gracious support of the Thierry and Frédéric Not...

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Very profound how archival records can reflect your own feelings reading them...

A page of a 17th century manuscript with 'nihil‘ (nothing) scribbled in large letters all over it

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This fellowship was totally transformative to my research and both institutions are amazing places to work! Highly recommend applying

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Through the story of Jacob Buyck, a 16th century exiled Catholic priest, @ewatson.bsky.social explores how book collections were used to build and define identity, and can endure as records of their owners' lives. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/GEKwrgt @imems.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social

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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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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We are so proud of the brilliant work of friends and contributors in this issue: thank you to all who brainstormed, peer reviewed, proofread, and helped us think through these #QueerBibliography subjects!

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@ceyingst.bsky.social explores the circulation of ballads about "female soldiers" and sailors, finding affirming trans histories in this print culture. 'Circulating the female surgeon ballad, or, information for the early modern female-to-male transsexual' www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Isabel Imhorst looks at bibliogaphic activism in libraries in the contest of section 28 and looks at the importance of this labour. 'Out on the shelves: bibliographic activism and lesbian literature in 1980s Britain' www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tim Pye looks at how the presentation of National Trust libraries owes much to queer bibliographical communities in ‘"The outward beauty of the shelves was my main object": Robert Gathorne-Hardy and the National Trust's libraries as queer spaces' www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@elibranagh.bsky.social talks through tensions of what to call repositories of queer material ‘History that matters’: an affective historiography of ‘queer’ at the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives in 1990s Australia www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Cookie Absent

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Claudia Frick offers a brave view on the inheritance of German librarians "On the fringes of memory: tracing queer history and recurring patterns towards queer-inclusive resilience in German libraries www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

First: the editorial with @ewatson.bsky.social discusses libraries and communities, starting, inevitably, with William Beckford, perhaps the most obsessive queer book collector: "Queer Bibliography and the Library part 1: communities" www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.

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Chelsea Reutcke, PhD @creutcke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It was such an incredible honor to launch my book at #EMBIC2026. I could not imagine a better venue nor a better co-launch partner than @ewatson.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who made the evening so special!!!

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Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @catholicismsem.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Great launch event at #EMBIC2026 for the series' two publications so far this year: Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688, and Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by @creutcke.bsky.social and @ewatson.bsky.social #skystorians #history #bookhistory #earlymodern

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's almost here! So looking forward to this being out in the world

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Coming to your library shelves this summer!

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

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Vol. 14 (2025): The Politics of Book History: Then and Now | Journal of Early Modern Studies

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Ledger stone of Antwerp almanac publisher Godtgaf Verhulst in Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, with his first, second AND third wives. Pretty crowded 😬

Ledger stone from Our Lady cathedral in Antwerp of Godtgaf Verhulst, who died 13 September 1700. Below Verhulst, the stone lists three successive women who died in 1669, 1692 and 1700, described as his wife, second wife and third wife.

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)

Text of a ledger describing the client as 'Dierick van Helmont, libraire a Middelborch, par sa fille Janne‘

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory

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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#WomensHistoryMonth women reading/reading women: - earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook - earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au - www.emwmlibrary.com - franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com - recirc.universityofgalway.ie

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Early Modern Female Book Ownership

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Intriguing example of #HerBook! This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture. (Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!) #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚

Upper cover of the book bound in parchment that has been colored in green. In the middle you see a center piece furniture with an inscription. The book also contains a metal clasp on the right.

Lower cover of the book bound in parchment that has been colored in green. In the middle you see a center piece furniture with an inscription. The book also contains a metal clasp on the left.

Title page in Hebrew en Jiddish printed in black on paper.

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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The libellous letters of the Chevalier d’Eon

Pre-trial statements from this 1776 dispute between the Chevalier d’Eon and Charles de Morande provide intricate details about these two French spies.

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson

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Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...

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Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre

"Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre" published on 18 Nov 2024 by Brill.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Much hard work from the inimitably brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst sees 'Gender and the Book Trades' now in print. An amazing collection, it includes my first paper on QB expanded as 'Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print'. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

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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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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the #NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @noraepstein.bsky.social @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Trying to get any work done the Friday before Christmas (Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa de S. Maria van Lima, 1678, USTC 1537320)

St Rose of Lima being set upon by an extremely chaotic set of demons and random household animals

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory

Impressum in early modern print in black ink on white paper

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Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Susanna Verbruggen († 1752) was een geestelijke maagd (#klopje of #kwezel) en lid van het Lucas gilde in Antwerpen vanaf 1710 💃 Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫 Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic

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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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