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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📢 OPPORTUNITY WITH SHARP NEWS We are looking for someone to join the SHARP News Bibliography team for a 3-year term starting in 2027. A great opportunity for established scholars, ECRs, or grad students! See the full call for applicants: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📢 OPPORTUNITY WITH SHARP NEWS We are looking for TWO PEOPLE to take responsibility of the SHARP News Book Reviews section for a 3-year term starting in 2027. See the full call for applicants: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #BookReviews

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder to submit! #BookHistory

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder! We are looking for Book Reviewers! Check out the original post for more details/links. #BookHistory #BookReviews 👇

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

⭐ Submit a proposal for a the Features section of SHARP News! Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Learn more about what the Features section is and what your post could look like: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/wp... #BookHistory

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Hocus Pocus: BOOOOO-OOOOKKK!!!!

Alt: Winifred Sanderson from Disney's Hocus Pocus (1993) pushes open a window and shouts from inside: BOOOOO-OOOOKKK!!!!

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🍎 SHARP In The Classroom -- New Post! 🍎 Holly Hoffmann, "Using _The Saint John’s Bible_ in Primary Source Instruction." #BookHistory #Pedagogy #Teaching #Medieval #IlluminatedManuscript Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Using The Saint John’s Bible in Primary Source Instruction – SHARP News

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📚 NEW BOOK REVIEWS 1/6 Trude Dijkstra reviews: Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage, eds. Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions. (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2025). #BookHistory #Printing sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage, eds. Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions. – SHARP News

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Did you or a friend complete a thesis or dissertation on a book history topic between 2024 and 2025? Submit the information here to have it included in our SHARP 2024-2025 Thesis and Dissertation Biliography! #Thesis #Dissertation #Research #BookHistory Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Form 2024/2025

Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2024 and 2025. Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, ...

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My @sharpnews.bsky.social book review of Vanessa Warne's brilliant "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" has now been published! Read here why you should absolutely, definitely read this book. sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Vanessa Warne. By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture. – SHARP News

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Forthcoming publication on editorial practice in Stuart Britain. Originally written in 2022 shortly after relocating to the UK, though very delayed production. So good to see proofs after this long journey. #editing #publishing #bookhistory www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

First page of typeset page proofs of book chapter on editorial practice in Stuart Britain. To be shortly published by Routledge.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Publishing Programme at @derbyuni.bsky.social is holding a free online conference on 1–2 September 2026. For further information and book your place, go to: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates... Teams links will received by attendees once their place is booked.

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Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty

The Publishing Programme is holding an online two-day conference on 1–2 September 2026 to mark this ten-year anniversary, and to reflect on the sociocultural, economic and practical implications for t...

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

⭐New! You can now use the following form to submit the citation information for any work you found to be missing from any of our past Annual Bibliographies. You can find this link on our submissions page for future use, too! #BookHistory #Bibliography docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SHARP Annual Bibliography books we missed

This form is for collecting citation information for edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs that were not included in our annual bibliographies. They should be: Any language Any top...

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📢 ATTN BOOK HISTORY PEOPLE 📚 Have you or a friend published an edited collection on a #BookHistory topic in 2026? A monograph? An exhibition catalogue? Yes?! Submit the citation information to have the work included in the SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography

This form is for collecting citation information for 2026 edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs. They should be: Published in 2026 Any language Any topic in book history We encoura...

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

With these final days of annual leave, nurturing the mind and body along the Tissington Trail, Ashbourne, UK.

View of the footpath and verdant landscape to the left of part of the Tissington Trail on this beautiful Saturday.

Verdant landscape of Peak District along the Tissington Trail, Ashbourne, UK.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our final Guest of Honour will be announced next week for Edge-Lit next week, but we already have so much talent confirmed for the event - a great day out ahead for writers and readers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire

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Edge-Lit 12 | Derby QUAD

View our latest event: Edge-Lit 12. See what the available times are for this event.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Rage in Caribbean Women’s Writing. Nicole King and Ana Nenadović. This Element is curently free online. Read it now ! #feminism #racism #gender

"Rage is having a moment. It is everywhere, among men, women and children, but particularly among feminists like us. This Element is a concentrated meditation on women's rage in Bruised Hibiscus (2000) and Negra (2013), two novels by and about Caribbean women. We explore how expressions of rage braided with feminist solidarity figure in these novels and how this mixture produces affective and political responses to racism and gender-based violence. Our focus on the contours of Caribbean women's rage advances feminist thought on rage as a political tool of power. In selected readings of our two novels, we identify feminist solidarity as an essential and shared factor in the discursive expression of Caribbean women's rage: We argue that the female protagonists in Bruised Hibiscus and Negra articulate their rage differently but use it similarly to claim the power to resist if not to eradicate racism, gender-based violence, and sex shaming."

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

An excellent panel. @ruthahnert.bsky.social’s visual mapping was particularly inspiring for my own research. Thank you! #SHARPIES26 @sharpweb.org

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ruthie Block’s keynote has been a particular standout of #SHARPIES26!

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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

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The Bibliographical Society of America

The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Feeling very excited: arrived in Mainz, Germany, for the #bythebook11 #publishing conference, being held at @unimainz.bsky.social on 24-25 July.

Photo of front facade of Mainz Hauptbanof, with beautiful blue skies and milling people.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#OpenDay at @derbyuni.bsky.social! Such a privilege to communicate the wonders of our BA in Creative Writing and Publishing degree to prospective students! #creativewriting #publishing

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PowerPoint side advertising that University of Derby was awarded No. 1 University of the Year for 2027 by Uni Compare.

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📚 ✨ The SHARP Annual Bibliography 2025 is now live! ✨ 📚 Read and download it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Authorship #Reading #Publishing #Research

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🔊Announcing: The SHARP News “SHARP in the Classroom” Editor We are delighted to welcome Anushmita Mohanty as our incoming “SHARP in the Classroom” editor. Anushmita is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Welcome Anushmita! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/ab...

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

📚 NEW BOOK REVIEWS 📚 1/6 Richard L. Saunders reviews: Derek W. Black, _Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy_ (Yale University Press, 2025). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BlackHistory #LiteracyAndRace #Literacy #BookHistory

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Derek W. Black. Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy. – SHARP News

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Reunion event to celebrate 10 years of #Publishing at @derbyuni.bsky.social, organised by colleagues @catmitchell17.bsky.social & David Barker. So proud of our inspiring past and present students; so proud and privileged to be part of such a passionate, exemplary team. A moment to cherish.

Group photo of past and present students of the Publishing programme at University of Derby.

Photo of me and my publishing colleagues, Cat Mitchell and David Barker.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

So pleased to be given the opportunity by ‘TEXT’ to review ‘Composite City’, an almanac of Australian goodness published by Rose Michael’s Arcade Publications and produced by RMIT University’s student-led Bowen Street Press. textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1614...

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TEXT Reviews April 2026 | Published in TEXT

By Donna Lee Brien, Elizabeth Walton & 8 more. We review books by Krauth, Spirovski, Stavanger, Paine, Prendergast, Brown, Donaldson and Shank, Hooton, South, Lu, and Sheppard et al.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Attending the Northern Publishers’ Fair at Manchester Central Library today, learning more about all the excellent #publishing endeavours of diverse publishers, small & large. Had the absolute pleasure to meet and chat with Becca Parkinson from Manchester Uni Press. Such a wonderful day. #thenorth

Selfie of Jocelyn with Becca Parkinson from Manchester university Press.

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 22/04/2026

Hi! It's over two months until our online global book history festival and we already have 177 registrants! Want to see what all the fuss is about? Join SHARP and register now (click through the link to see program details). events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

One reason the AI industry (something separate though complicatedly enmeshed with AI research) invokes such hostile responses is that it has failed to produce legible public good while loudly proclaiming the likelihood of annihilating jobs in the service of extreme wealth.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Always enjoy visiting London to see family, but equally enjoy returning home to Derby. Writing while waiting for my bus. #amwriting #academiclife

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Excited to be back working with Nottingham Writers Studio this May, where I'll be taking a look at WRITING URBAN FANTASY with this workshop session! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-ur... #urbanfantasy #writing #writers #writingworkshop #writingworkshops #onlineworkshop #onlineworkshops

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Writing Urban Fantasy with Alex Davis

Bringing creatures of horror and epic fantasy into the real world

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Horror can be delivered in many different ways, and in my SUBGENRES OF HORROR course I'll be exploring everything from the subtle and understated to the in-your-face! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/subgenres-... #horror #writing #writers #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorfiction #horrorcourse

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Subgenres of horror

A 4-week course exploring some of the key subgenres of horror fiction, with advice on techniques, examples, discussion points and exercises.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

CFP Reminder! A gentle reminder to consider submitting a proposal to @derbyuni.bsky.social hybrid #publishing conference to be held on 1-2 September. Deadline is 27 February 2026.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I had the absolute pleasure of being invited by Robyn Charlesworth of Happily Ever Bookshop, and recent MA in Publishing graduate at @derbyuni.bsky.social, to delight in, and unpack, all things #romance and #publishing. Thank you, Robyn. I had so much fun! m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7TV...

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The Romance Stigma, Fifty Shades and Twilight with Dr Jocelyn Hargrave | HEA Bookshop Interview

YouTube video by HEA Bookshop

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My general experience is that many books that have intimidating titles and reputations are nonetheless quite a pleasure to read, especially if compared to something like an End User License Agreement.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An excellent semester start for Publishing MA students enrolled in Print & Digital Production. Using playdough, students made cuneiform tablets. A fun, creative way to consider the complex processes of designing & laying out texts, & how indebted modern practice is to the past. @derbyuni.bsky.social

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Publishing Programme at @derbyuni.bsky.social invites submissions to its hybrid conference, 'Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty' on 1–2 September 2026. The deadline for submission of proposals is 27 February 2026. Please send submissions to: j.hargrave@derby.ac.uk.

Call for paper details for hybrid publishing conference to take place on 1-2 September 2026.

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Kafka definitely knew how to craft an effective hook: ‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach.’ #metamorphosis #amreading

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Our Creative Writing and Publishing team caught up yesterday to plan for the forthcoming academic year. Privileged to work with, and benefit from, such awesome colleagues. Photo credit: @catmitchell17.bsky.social. @derbyuni.bsky.social

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Second #journalling and #bookbinding workshop with @findyourownformjournalling at @scarthinbooks.bsky.social. So awesome. Looking forward to applying what I’m learning and practising to my #teaching and #research.

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