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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm excited to say it's up and official! Please write if you have any questions or interest in writing a short monograph for the "Periodicals and Print Matter" strand of the Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture series. I'd love to hear from you! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am pleased to share that I've been awarded the Humfrey Wanley Visting Fellowship and I will be spending September at the Bodleian Library in Oxford!

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Publishing and Book Culture

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This platform is getting out of hand

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We've both re-dedicated ourselves to a better diet and more exercise, which this Christmas also seems to include melting an entire stick of butter.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I'm reminded of the time I ended up in a band photo (2nd left) for their album liner notes because they couldn't get the keyboardist to pick up the phone and they needed a body for the shot. And no, I don't play.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Re-upping this in hopes of an answer

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Question for the Victorianists: is there a digital scan of any/all of the serialized edition of Bleak House out there?

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My life's aspiration is to walk down the street and have people point and say...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Our latest issue is out! Check Part Two of our special topic "Print Cultures and Bookishness in Contemporary Life" in The New Americanist (Edinburgh UP): www.euppublishing.com/toc/tna/curr...

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The New Americanist: Vol 3, No 2

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I need help translating some handwriting. I think "W.B. Turner" but I really can't be sure. Ideas?

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

FINALLY! The first piece I wrote on Sylvia Beach and the last to be published. Thanks to the editors of this fine edited collection -- Gender and the Book Trades -- which is crammed full of great scholarship. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I just attended the latest Bookselling Research Network event and a "William Gibson" was there who never turned on his camera. I spent the whole time thinking "nah, it can't be, can it?"

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ok Warsaw, you can do pretty once in a while.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Excited to be joining the London Rare Books School once again to present on early 20th c. bookselling during the Bookshops and Booksellers course convened by @bettyblogs.bsky.social and Andrew Nash! Open to all those interested! Course: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-... And see below for how to join.

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Bookshops and Booksellers: Five Centuries of Selling Books

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I live in the land of slow email replies and even slower administrative processes, so receiving a reply from a bookseller within an hour of their opening time was strangely exciting.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Re-upping for all the new followers. Please let me know if I've missed you!

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Published in 1933 and still immensely helpful in 2024

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm not sure I've ever described a blueberry as "crunchy"

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Nobody: Joseph Ames: ALL the imprints everywhere all at once

1743 frontispiece of Joseph Ames's Typographical Antiquities showing all the imprints he writes about

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I wrote a review of Evan Friss's book on American bookstores. Certainly a conversation can be had about it includes and excludes, but I'm on the side of MORE research and focus. So I welcome it from that perspective. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

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The Bookshop by Evan Friss | Book review

Evan Friss’s The Bookshop is an admirable exploration of US bookselling. It comprises thirteen chapters on various booksellers across US history, which are broken up by short interstitial pieces on bo...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Re-upping in case #BookSky or any new followers have suggestions to add.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm pretty confident my path to the academy started at Pizza Hut.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I just learned Jimmy Page owned a bookshop in the 1970s. Finally, my teenage years have research value.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I understood that in moving to Warsaw there'd be a possibility of an unexploded shell found near where I'm living. It looks like today's that day.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like to buy a book from David Garnett.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Starting a chapter on Bloomsbury booksellers Birrell & Garnett. Lots of fun data to share from the archives.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A starter pack for bookshops, bookselling, and those that follow closely. Hit me up if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/MshhBgG

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Since you're all here now, do let me know what your favorite bookshop is. Photos welcome!

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

So excited to share Ben Huebsch and the Booksellers' School with everyone! Thanks to @astarre.bsky.social Florian Sedlmeier, and Sheila Liming for seeing this through!

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

I received a fan email for my last book from somebody who worked on the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and I'd really like to tell the 11yo me who obsessively listened to an audio tape of bits of that film all about it.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Today in Slow Academia: I received a response to an email I sent 2 1/2 years ago from a professor at another institution. I appreciate the email but should I be worried about them?

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I take a copy of Ulysses in a hotel's library as a seal of quality.

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

A monumental achievement by the most impressive academic I know, @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social. Out today! Check out the free electronic version and buy yourself a print copy! And then have your library order the hardcover! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/soviet-born/...

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Book Details

In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-ident...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

As my British friends go to the polls on the anniversary of my country's declaring independence from them, I'd like to take this moment to say...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

New issue out! Thank you Jessica Pressman for the inspiration! www.euppublishing.com/toc/tna/3/1 @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Kathi Berens Rachel Noorda Seth Glickman

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Just received the proofs for my other piece on Beach. Due out with Brill in the fall! brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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