Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Toronto #bookhistory , with a bonus on the city’s laneway culture. 0166
Reposted by Leslie HowsamUniversity of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“In this pathbreaking study, Hrynyk brings a rigourous analytic to power, desire, #Gender, race, illness & disability in a Toronto magazine that was for decades a global touchstone for #GayPolitics.” –Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington @thompsonriversu.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/48lTg8Q 011
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Good to see new research on the intersection of #bookhistory and bible history. 051
Reposted by Leslie HowsamPatrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If 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 14630
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Superb 🧵 from @sarahebull.bsky.social I’ve long struggled with the kinds of tensions between literary and historical disciplinary approaches to the 19th century that are raised here and (to some extent ) in the article she offers. 161
Reposted by Leslie HowsamPatrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Curran Index, named after my old friend Eileen Curran, is the world's only ongoing research project devoted to identifying the authors of anonymous articles, stories, and poems in the 19th-c. press. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Your help will be invaluable. #victorian 0111
Reposted by Leslie HowsamDictionary of Canadian Biography @dcb-dbc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Thoughts on biography, AI, and a return to undergraduate teaching as David Wilson steps down as editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography: stmikes.utoronto.ca/news/celtic-... 134
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Fascinating conversation between two #bookhistory people, tentatively teasing out the relationships among text, book, and cultural context. With a scary new slippage between text and substrate. 📕 060
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Good news. @rs4vp.org in Canada next year. Ottawa!newsrs4vp.org 071
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Some #bookhistory for Canada Day. Carole Gerson, member of @sharpweb.org and BSC/SCB has a new book about authorship and commemoration. 083
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope. 11916
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This promises to be spectacular #victorianperiodicals scholarship with implications for many other web-based projects. They are a #Canadian team! 082
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Stand by for an article soon, about describing history books through the lens of book history. Another part of the answer is that historians do #bookhistory too. 1176
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Good question! Any perspective from Canadian history? @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social ? 130
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Looking forward to hosting this online #bookhistory mentorship event. 0152
Reposted by Leslie HowsamSHARP @sharpweb.org · 27/04/2026Our 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... 1147
Reposted by Leslie HowsamSHARP @sharpweb.org · 13/04/2026Are you looking for an online global book history festival that features work on ancient through contemporary textual cultures? Look no further! Registration is open now! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC... 12211
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Good 🧵 about how historical writing is distinct, as narrative, as discipline, as genre. 000
Reposted by Leslie HowsamOpen Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Eliza Orme co-founded the Nineteenth Century Building Society, "which by 1885 would have the largest share capital of all the building societies in Britain". Leslie Howsam's book on Orme, ref'd in this article in which Leslie is quoted, is #OpenAccess! 📖 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...openbookpublishers.comEliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian LondonWhy are some figures hidden from history? Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investi... 012
Reposted by Leslie HowsamLeslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026In today’s Times, an article about 19th century women and building societies, featuring Eliza Orme. @openbookpublish.bsky.social #feministbusinesshistory www.thetimes.com/money/saving...thetimes.com100 years before women could get mortgages, one set up a building societyTrailblazer Eliza Orme was the first of her sex to earn a law degree in England — and way ahead of her time in helping others to buy homes 194
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026In today’s Times, an article about 19th century women and building societies, featuring Eliza Orme. @openbookpublish.bsky.social #feministbusinesshistory www.thetimes.com/money/saving...thetimes.com100 years before women could get mortgages, one set up a building societyTrailblazer Eliza Orme was the first of her sex to earn a law degree in England — and way ahead of her time in helping others to buy homes 194
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I’ve now received one of those AI-generated emails offering to promote my book. Reads a bit weirdly since *Old Books & New Histories* is 20 years old! But I can see how an academic author might fall for it. 131
Reposted by Leslie HowsamResearch Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 30/03/2026Just a quick reminder that proposals for VPR's upcoming special issue on "Keywords" are due TODAY! 064
Reposted by Leslie HowsamSarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib... 12014
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I’m fascinated by this subset of #Victorian #suffragists. How many were like Miss Brabrook, unsung, obscure, but not unremarkable? 010
Reposted by Leslie HowsamThis Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026To mark International Women's Day, here's a celebration of four of pioneering women with Glasgow connections. They are: Margaret Easton Anderson, a graudate of Glasgow University and the first woman to practice law in the UK; Cont./ #glasgow #internationalwomensday #glasgowhistory 14312
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 08/03/2026For #InternationalWomensDay, introducing Eliza Margaret Brabrook (1866-1927) whose editorial and management skills brought the *Women’s Gazette* to a close in 1892 after Eliza Orme’s departure. Subeditor for a London publisher; active Liberal and feminist; daughter of a prominent intellectual. 020
Reposted by Leslie HowsamJoanie Grenier @joaniegrenier.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Mon premier article de fond sur la #découvrabilité dans l'écosystème du livre vient de paraître dans la revue Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture, sous la direction de Julien Lefort-Favreau (U. Queen’s) et Sarah Brouillette (U. Carleton) : doi-org.ezproxy.usherbrooke.ca/10.7202/1122.... 073
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Wonderful 🧵 on Scottish medical women. Can’t help but add that Flora Masson was Eliza Orme’s niece. 052
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Latest in the @uoftpress.bsky.social series, Studies in Book and Print Culture. #bookhistory 081
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Really interesting (and optimistic) 🧵. But I notice nobody refers to this work as #bookhistory. Is this significant? 2121
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Interesting article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social about missionary periodicals. When I first joined @rs4vp.org I was going to do something with the Bible Society’s *Monthly Register*. Someone still should. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgAssembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge CoreAssembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s - Volume 65 074
Reposted by Leslie HowsamMémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture @memoiresdulivre.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Studies in Book Culture's latest issue is now available. Directed by Sarah Brouillette and Julien Lefort-Favreau, the issue is entitled "The Politics of Visibility and Discoverability in Contemporary Publishing". You can read it here : www.erudit.org/.../2.... 012
Reposted by Leslie HowsamSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.erudit.orgPolitiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book CultureRead this issue of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture on Érudit. Discipline: Literary Studies, History. 22414
Reposted by Leslie Howsamwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart 1714116
Reposted by Leslie HowsamCaroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati... 13417
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Surprised and delighted today to find a review (by Courtney Smith) in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social of my *Eliza Orme’s Ambitions*. @openbookpublish.bsky.social 062
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Eliza Orme was born #otd in 1848. Famously sensible and formidably competent, she disliked the excesses of Victorian Christmas cards, preferring “a nice hearty letter”. 070
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Just received my series editor’s copy of Queer Print Cultures. #bookhistory utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....utppublishing.comQueer Print Cultures - University of Toronto PressQueer Print Cultures brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to consider what printed materials can tell us about the history of gendered and sexual embodiment. 072
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Nervous History MA student starting a #Victorian Studies program that required one course in English. The one with familiar canonical names was full, so I had to take the one that introduced me to a bunch of writers I’d never heard of, but also #bookhistory. 190
Reposted by Leslie HowsamRohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025An optimistic dystopia, a romance of the past, a cautionary tale? thoughts on Ian McEwan's What We Can Knowrohanmaitzen.comA Vigorous Life: Ian McEwan, What We Can KnowIt is a wonder that a poem, let alone an unread poem, could have such a vigorous life in the culture–and its story still had decades to run before the present day. In the late twenty-first ce… 182
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 29/11/2025This reminds me of when I taught undergrads about the practice of history by genre — how to read an article, an encyclopedia entry, a chapter, etc. A #bookhistory approach. 291
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Boosting this reference to Trish Loughran’s important chapter. 173
Reposted by Leslie HowsamSHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 20/11/2025📚 New Book Review! Ellen Barth reviews: The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020, edited by Nicola Wilson et al. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Publishing #WomeninPublishing #WomeninPrint #FeministBookHistory 0138
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025A #bookhistory academic’s review of @biblioasis.bsky.social bestseller, The Notebook. 📒. 🇨🇦 sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...sharpweb.orgRoland Allen. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. – SHARP News 1113