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Jim Mussell

@jimmussell.bsky.social
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Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/…

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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Looking forward to Phyllis Weliver’s visit to the School of English @unileedsnews.bsky.social today. Her talk is ‘Wulatji and Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s Song-Poems: Countering Erasure in c19th Australia’
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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excited to be giving the introduction to Radical Roots by the Red Shed Players this evening in Leeds! Though tonight's event is sold out(!!!), I am reliably informed more Chartist, Ownenite, and Radical inspired performances on the horizon! libraries.leeds.gov.uk/events/the-r...
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The Red Shed Players Presents: Radical Roots | Leeds Library
In “Radical Roots” The Red Shed Players explore the lives of four strong characters who played important roles in our history: Robert Owen - Industrialist and Dreamer Feargus O’Connor - The Lion of Fr...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 10/10/2026
The people holding up the internet sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 09/10/2026
Don't forget to join us next Friday, 16 Oct. for our #RSVPDigiEvent on regional magazines. Our speakers will discuss how periodicals of the periphery provoke vital questions about where cultural + political power is actually produced. Register for this free event here: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...
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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) – RSVP
Join us on 16 October for a sneak peak of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (forthcoming for Edinburgh UP, 2028)!
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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lovely people watching my calligraphy performance at the York Wayzgoose 👋 They say the banner installed in the middle of the Thin Ice Press room is still there since early August! Can you imagine a calligraphy performance at another event? I'd love to do it more and more. #calligraphy #performance
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 06/10/2026
On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe it'd be better if no political parties made shit AI-generated versions of the Bayeux Tapestry / Canterbury Embroidery / whatever
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Delighted to be part of ‘Paperwork’ An exhibition of 10 Scottish artists working with paper, print and book art. Opening Sat 3 Oct at Ruda, St Boswells 11am - 4pm. Do drop in. www.rudastudio.com I will be showing new pieces from my ongoing vessels series. Ongoing until 7 Nov, 11-4 Wed-Sat.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026
‘These are experiments in pushing poetry to the boundaries of legibility, into new forms, and even off the page entirely.’ Gill Partington on the re-emergence of the little magazine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Gill Partington · Boxed into Our Language: Mimeo-Revolutionaries
More so than letterpress, mimeograph printing is a visceral snapshot of an instant in time, preserving the flux and mess...
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.
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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures
Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Rachel Matthews @provnewshistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are launching our Preserving Local Newspaper Archives Toolkit on Monday, September 28, with an in-person lunch and a hybrid panel featuring @socialhistarchive.bsky.social and the New Zealand-based Preserving Local History and Education Trust. Sign up! www.tickettailor.com/events/local...
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Select tickets – Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive - toolkit launch – The Rep
Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive - toolkit launch – The Rep, Mon 28 Sep 2026 - This seminar will share insights from Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive, a National Archives-funded research p...
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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After a string of desk rejections and unsuccessful interviews, I am still looking for work in West Yorkshire/remotely. I have experience in HE teaching and administration, editing and copyediting, research and writing, and customer service! If you know of any roles going please send them my way 🙏
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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you've ever set type by hand, you'll be astonished at the speeds here. Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilig...
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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Highly recommend this new essay. Come for the 29,000 index cards, stay for the introduction of Unicode & implementation of IIIF. One of my fav quotes: "A good research infrastructure should encourage and inspire research, and ours quickly did just that, accelerating the expansion of the data."
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you work on the 19th-c press and are looking at bills for travel, repro fees, etc., applying for a Curran Fellowship should be a no-brainer. Not a lot of hoops to jump through, and the folks making the decisions are researchers just like you. These are open to anybody, of any age, anywhere. #C19
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...
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Lost resources
To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Congratulations Will. Looks terrific
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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So here we go then: the result of many years thinking about how dinosaurs make science and the imagination work together. It's written for both literary critics and scientists and my dearest hope is that it will help foster an academy where we talk to each other more
Photo of a copy of 'The Social Dinosaur', out now from Bloomsbury omg
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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Morgan Tanith Coleman examines how periodical fiction expressed public anxieties about outbreaks and intercultural contact as Britain began to recover from recurrent waves of cholera throughout the 1830s–60s. Read it in VPR 58.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Map of England showing cholera prevalence during the 1849 outbreak, sourced from Report on the Mortality of Cholera in England, 1848–49 (London: W. Clowes, 1852), Wellcome Library, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/acv8r4bv, image reproduced under a Public Domain Mark License. Accompanying text says Morgan Tanith Coleman, “Cholera Anxiety and the Judgment of God: Moral Attitudes Toward Disease in Victorian Family Magazines from the 1860s to 1880s,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.
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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
All fiction titles from the English Catalogue, Volume 4 have now been added! That means 1862–1889 are complete. Next up: the 1890s... • 27,471 title entries • 6,770 author entries (most with bios) Big thank you to my students from last semester who assisted me to this milestone.
A graph of the number of titles published per year, 1837 to 1901, showing an increasingly steep increase up to the 1890s
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026
And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Not at all. I think it’s the expectation of binding that’s different for newspapers. There’s no doubt though, that they were bound. Otherwise we wouldn’t have any!
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
As Dal Liddle has pointed out to me a few times, newspaper offices also bound their copies for future reference
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026
How is it already the final day of #RSVP2026? 😢 Get ready for more panels, the AGM at 12:30 pm in the Davis Theatre (tune in for our Colby Prize reveal!) + our Farewell Reception at 5:30 pm in the Museum Building, where we’ll announce next year’s conference host. 👀 Watch this space!
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Conference Program – RSVP
We aim to provide program information to our many international travelers and busy attendees as early as possible. The conference program for Dublin appears below, though please note that it is still…
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We’re delighted to announce that Professor Leah Price has been appointed to the Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History.
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Professor Leah Price appointed as Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We’re looking to appoint two lecturers in School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: 1) Lecturer in Creative Writing: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086 2) Lecturer in English Language (with expertise in DH): jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Happy to provide more info if you're interested
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lectureship in Creative Writing
Ranked 29th in the world (QS 2026), the School of English at the University of Leeds operates at the leading edge of recent developments in literary studies and creative practice. Located within the F...
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please join the network and our friends on the Punch's Pocket Book Archive team for our upcoming symposium "Global circulations – annuals and pocket books on the move", 26–27 November 2026, U of Caen Normandy. Deadline for proposals = 31 August 2026 caesar-project.unicaen.fr/event/call-f...
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Call for papers for the CaeSAR ‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ project: ‘Global circulations - annuals and pocket books on the move’, 26–27 November 2026, University of Caen Normandy - CaeSAR
Caen, Strategy for Accelerating Research
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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Victorian poetry stans! Excited to say that my article on Toru Dutt and Paradise Lost is now out in Victorian Poetry, and available open access for your reading pleasure and/or heckling. 🌳🐍🌱 @victorianpoetry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1353/vp.2...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Coming soon: the game-changing, years-in-the-making new biography of M.R. James written my most excellent colleague, Darryl Jones! @profdarryljones.bsky.social @irishgothichorror.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
Book cover entitled ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of MR James’ with an imposing portrait of MR James, complete with spooky ravens.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
And often bitching about things in other countries
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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What a wonderful project!
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Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm giving a public talk in Manchester on 15 June! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-shoul...
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Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I'm delighted to have a chapter in this wonderful new book with Edinburgh University Press Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory (Eds Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard, Annabel Williams) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-telepoe... Open access: www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
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Telepoetics
Telepoetics
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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎞️ We are delighted that Manual, the first film by our project filmmaker Lily Ford, is available to watch! Blending Victorian self-help culture with contemporary digital media, the film explores ideas of labour, self-improvement, class, gender and creativity through the hand. youtu.be/LhDyk5G02BY
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Manual
YouTube video by The Victorian Hand
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...
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Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I'm looking forward to talking at Leeds Public Library next week about their copy of William Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise, recently returned after a 50-year absence. "Who Read Our Overdue Book? A Geological Bestseller at the Dawn of the Victorian Age." libraries.leeds.gov.uk/events/who-r...
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Who Read Our Overdue Book? A Geological Bestseller at the Dawn of the Victorian Age - History Talk | Leeds Library
Join us at Leeds Central Library with science historian Professor Topham for a talk based on his prize-winning study, Reading the Book of Nature (2022), where he will explore why the book was publishe...
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Library reading room, Bolton, April 1938, photo by Humphrey Spender.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I am reminded of Elmer the elephant by the Birmingham political map of 2026 though the quite positive patchwork of harmony message of that storybook may be challenging to emulate in city local politics
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just published! What an honor to be included alongside so many superb critics in this volume, which was so expertly conceived & edited by @denisoff.bsky.social. One funny thing abt collections is that sometimes you don’t get to read the other essays til it’s out—I can’t wait to learn from these. 🌿
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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social recently delivered a talk on Joshua Hobson, his radical publishing, and work on the Northern Star newspaper for the annual Luddite Memorial Lecture in Huddersfield. Find out more about the event and their future plans here: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/01/j...
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Joshua Hobson: His radical publishing and work on the Northern Star
Portrait of Joshua Hobson (Kirklees Museums and Galleries) [click to enlarge] Earlier this week, Dr Vic Clarke delivered a lively talk on Joshua Hobson, his radical publishing, and his work on the …
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Honestly this is one of the most radical proposals I've ever seen (having been told stuff like this at anoother UoB is impossible) - it is INCREDIBLE for equality and access. Guaranteed fixed days of the week for on-campus & one-night-a-week accom contract - part time job? carer? they go to uni too!
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University in Birmingham launches two-days-a-week degree courses
The study model is designed to help those who may struggle to fit commitments into irregular timetables.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Local journalism: still alive. www.expressandstar.com/news/wolverh...
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University axing English courses and half of English department staff face redundancy
Jobs at risk and concern as English courses dropped as university looks to cut costs
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centrechop.bsky.social @centrechop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Centre CHoP are hosting the latest in their series of lightning talks on print culture and the book arts on Wednesday 6 May, 4-5pm BST in Leeds and online. Get in touch if you want the link
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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 27/04/2026
Our online book history festival is all about connecting with bookish compatriots! Join us for three, action-packed social events: a bookish craft session, a book recommendation hour, and an early-career mentorship session (spots limited, pre-registration required!) events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
Coffee and Crafts Fika Social Hour hosted by Sydney Shep, Wednesday, July 8 @ 4:30am UTC
Career Connections: Early Career Researcher Social hosted by Leslie Howsam, Wednesday, July 8 @ 1pm UTC
All-languages Book Recommendation Fika Social Hour hosted by Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Thursday, July 9 @ 7:30pm UTC
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Dr Caroline Archer-Parré @typetweets.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Come and get up close with Baskerville's 60pt B. sketchfab.com/3d-models/ba...
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Baskerville Punch Pt.60 Roman Uppercase B - 3D model by Cambridge Digital Library (@CamDigLib)
3D cross polarisation photogrammetry model of Baskerville Punch Pt.60 Roman Uppercase B One of the more than 3000 steel punches made for John Baskerville in the mid-eighteenth century and used to cre...
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