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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely - take a look at what the readings you used this morning were like in Tyndale's original even: www.textusreceptusbibles.com/Tyndale

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed, and notable that translating the Bible into English was not something he could be prosecuted for in the Netherlands. Hence the many months of questioning Tyndale faced in Vilvoorde Castle at the hands of inquisitors

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

490 yrs ago today, William Tyndale was strangled and burned, having produced the English New Testament we celebrate 500 yrs of across 2026 His is a story that shows the violence and messiness of the early English Reformation and it opens my own study of how the English Bible became a bestseller

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

***frantically buying lottery tickets***

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! To celebrate, we're sharing an image of Brian Walton's Polyglot Bible. The impressive six volume work presents the Old Testament in nine languages: Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum), Samaritan, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Ethiopic, Greek, and Latin.

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How fitting that my episode on Tyndale with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social arrives on #internationaltranslationday Tyndale's English New Testament was the first to translate from Greek into English, and his Pentateuch the first from Hebrew into English. Listen to learn more about Tyndale's life...

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Episode 362 - William Tyndale & the English Bible with Dr Harry Spillane

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great to see 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' in such great company within @finebooks.bsky.social September roundup of new books

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible Pictured here at Emmanuel College beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @newnhamcollege.bsky.social table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing bodleianshop.co.uk/products/sel...

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Next up in our #Shakespeare webinar series is RICHARD III. Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Susan L. Anderson (Mary Baldwin University) to discuss the new Oxford World's Classics edition of the play. 5 October | 6-7.15pm (BST) This is a free public event & all are welcome!

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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Richard III

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Richard III from Oxford World's Classics.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With just a week until the release of 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible', the first review is already out. Very grateful to David Smith @camhistory.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How to do with books, especially bibles, when you live in a material world? Well, William Hogarth of 18th century fame reminds us of the typical re-using (of bindings). In this case, the leather binding is re-used for a shoe sole. #bookhistory #booksky

A detail from William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, Plate 1, from around 1735, showing a bound bible and the leather cover with a hole that looks like a shoe. William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, Plate 1.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ANTHONY GRAFTON IN THE HOUSE!!! #earlymodern #skystorians In person in the Warburg but with nice online access!

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Delighted to see 'Selling the Word of God' advertised in the Church Times with a generous endorsement from Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

With less than two weeks to go until the publication of "Selling the Word of God. The Early Commercial History of the English Bible", I'm delighted to be featured in Oxford University's 'Off the Shelf' for September @ox.ac.uk www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/off-...

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OFF THE SHELF: SEPTEMBER 2026

This month Mallory, Mussolini, Markets, AI, sickle cells, bibles, World War Two, Bayeux Tapestry, M.R.James, Ukraine, Universities and Asylum

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bryan Deighton, Conservator (Books & Paper) at Cambridge University Library, has completed a project to conserve a 19th-century album filled with medieval manuscript fragments. 🔎Learn more about the work, which was made possible by a grant from @thenmct.bsky.social: loom.ly/PkeRIVs

A conservator using a fine brush to repair a hole in a medieval manuscript fragment with a Japanese paper disc.

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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Good to see new research on the intersection of #bookhistory and bible history.

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I write 'children', whilst having spent ten minutes playing with the Luther figure during 'tidying' it away this morning!

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I find it entirely baffling that the brains at Playmobil have not seen this enormous potential and are denying so many children the chance to smuggle tiny books in barrels. To cite Tyndale, we can only 'bemoan the powers that be'!

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shown here with my well-thumbed Tyndale New Testament and the Playmobil Martin Luther who has kept watch over the project. Playmobil has shamelessly ignored the 500th anniversary of Tyndale's NT but you can read all about Tyndale's debt to Luther on Sep 24th 2/3

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One month until the release of 'Selling the Word of God' on Sep 24th. All at Bodleian Publishing have done a wonderful job in producing a beautifully illustrated book! Available to pre-order now from: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/sel... (10% discount with code: SWG10) 1/3

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

7 Aug 1570: d. Margaret [Harleston] Parker wife of Archbishop Matthew Parker 'right Christianly' as her husband recorded it. Parker had lived with her from 1544 and then married her in June 1547. (Lambeth Palace)

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happening this evening - 'Go the extra mile', to hear 'a small still voice' or two describe Tyndale's achievement of 'fighting the good fight' to give the Bible to all. Wine & cheese provided to 'eat drink and be merry' too *just four of Tyndale's wonderful English phrases so subtly worked in there

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happening on Monday - a chance to reflect on what Tyndale's achievement of producing the first English New Testament out of the original Greek means 500 years on. A free event at the Cambridge Round Church, with wine & cheese too. 'Eat, drink and be merry' is appropriately a phrase Tyndale coined!

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tyndale at 500 - 'The Ploughboy Revolution' Join us for an evening at the Round Church, Cambridge, to celebrate 500 years of Tyndale's New Testament. I'll be joined in conversation with the wonderful Tony Watkins from @tyndalehouse.bsky.social More info at: lifeintheround.org

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Go get them a copy of the Bishops' Bible and you'll have combined life's great joys 📙🐾

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Bravo! Looking forward to getting a copy

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

You're very kind Susan, many thanks - it should now be available to order in the US through the University of Chicago Press who distribute for the Bodleian

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Many thanks Peter - as chance would have it, one of my first jobs was sending your forthcoming review off to press!

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excited to have started overseeing the book reviews section of 'The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'. A reminder that suggestions of books and offers to review can be sent to jeh-office@cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org @cambridge.org

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A tremendous range of forthcoming books from @camhistory.bsky.social! Honoured to be in such great company 📚

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Many thanks, Greg! The English Bible certainly has a tumultuous history

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

For American friends, I am pleased to announce that 'Selling the Word of God' is being distributed by the University of Chicago Press ($40) Do pre-order your copy from: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Selling the Word of God

The fascinating commercial history of the Bible’s first English printings.The Bible is the most published text in history, and the story of its publication in the English language is extraordinary. Se...

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A pleasure to talk Tyndale at the 'Big Ideas by the Sea' festival in Scarborough. The festival is a great initiative and allows for a day of talks and music followed by seaside walks and fish & chips...what more could you want! www.bigideasbythesea.com

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Today the Church of England recalls the Northumbrian monk and scholar the Venerable Bede. Bede was of special interest to sixteenth-century polemicists and antiquarians, particularly Archbishop Matthew Parker. Read on to see why.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“A Matter Newly Seene”: The Bishops’ Bible, Matthew Parker, and Elizabethan Antiquarianism

This essay examines Archbishop Matthew Parker’s prefaces to the 1568 Bishops’ Bible. It illustrates how these prefaces supported the attempts made by Parker (1504-75) to link the fledgling Elizabet...

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You have heard the talk enough times to write your own version!

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

*So* excited to read this. Fascinating research & @harryspillane.bsky.social is a great communicator. I was rapt from the moment he handed out Fry’s Turkish Delight during a lecture (there is a connection to Bibles…).

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Many thanks, Suzanne! I fear publication is unlikely to bring to an end the piles of bibles being ordered to the Rare Books Room by me 📖📖📖📖📖📖📖

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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Verrry much looking forward to seeing a copy of this from the Most Excellent @harryspillane.bsky.social

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW: 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25 A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller, charting the innovations, errors, rivalries and bankruptcies behind the 'book of books' Coming September 2026 tinyurl.com/2p3cdmwp

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