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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yesterday we delivered the lunchtime talk @westminsterabbey.bsky.social St Margaret's Church on Caxton to mark the end of @senatehouselib.bsky.social Caxton exhibition @ies-sas.bsky.social 🙌

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond runs until 24 July. Pop over to @senatehouselib.bsky.social if you’re nearby

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Week 1 day 2 of the 2026 @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Book School. Here are a few pics from the Anatomy of the Book short course, which is making good use of the new printing press @sas-news.bsky.social

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some pics from today’s letterpress workshop at the Stoke City Archives, celebrating book making in the Potteries, as part of Lisa Blower’s @keeleuniversity.bsky.social 100 Books for 100 Years centenary project

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Print Revolution: Then and Now conference today @senatehouselib.bsky.social was great. I only got one pic, with representatives from various bibliographical presses, and here it is

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The @senatehouselib.bsky.social printer in residence Becca Drake ran some excellent sessions today. Bridging Caxton, Chaucer, contemporary poetry, and hand-press printing @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A few pics from @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social last week. It was great to get a part of the Book Fairs 101 session and the Revolutions in Print panel both with @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Chuffed to discover that my MRes diss student,Sophie Weinberg, has won the Women’s History Network’s 2025 MA Dissertation Prize for ‘The Matrilineal Printing House’! Here’s a project Sophie’s working on over at the Skeuomorph Press at Illinois—a letterpress poster of her diss title!

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Many thanks to Tandy Barton, Academic Librarian for Manuscript and Print, and to writer and journalist Jade Cuttle, for showing us around the @senatehouselib.bsky.social Museum of Writing yesterday, which Jade is currently helping to catalogue

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Many thanks to Dr Alexandra Hill and all the team @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for offering a session on the book and the body for our History of the Book students this week!

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Last night’s UCL/IES Stevenson Lecture, ‘Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books’, was fantastic. Thanks to all who attended, and of course thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for putting on such a great talk!

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Some pics from this week’s student visits to @stationerscomms.bsky.social Archives (ft. Dr Ruth Frendo) and the British Jesuit Archives (ft. @ies-sas.bsky.social LAHP CDA student Ted Simonds)

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’m told that the book has been sent to print and that it’ll be out on 31 March 😭

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It was great to get to talk about print culture at the National Gallery’s ‘At the time of Wright of Derby’ salon series, which coincides with the Wright exhibition. 3 more exhibition member talks coming up: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/at-th...

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Kind of obsessed with John Tregortha’s printer’s device #stoke #burslem #potteries

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A big thank you to Mark Wiltshire and the team Christie’s for a fantastic show and tell today with @ies-sas.bsky.social History of the Book students. Featuring a guest appearance from Joseph Moxon, an array of gorgeous medieval manuscripts, plus a (the!) tube map #bookhistory

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Many thanks to @ies-sas.bsky.social graduate, Zachary Larsen, Charlotte Miller, and all the team @quaritch1847.bsky.social for welcoming our MA cohort so warmly today!

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Finally got to see The Nature of Gothic exhibition (and the small corner I got to curate). Go visit Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery before it closes on 13 December! #bookhistory @ies-sas.bsky.social

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Yesterday’s Reading Matters salon at English: Shared Futures, sponsored by @ies-sas.bsky.social and @univeng.bsky.social No pics of the Reading Matters panel as I was chairing, but brill papers by @lisablowerwrite.bsky.social Carina Spaulding @readingagency.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A few more pics from Anatomy of the Book last week, ft. guest sessions with Karen Attar, Giles Mandelbrote, and David Pearson 📚

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Day 2 of Anatomy of the Book LRBS short course @ies-sas.bsky.social . Today we’ve had a visit to St Bride and a printing demo with Richard Lawrence

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

There’s postgraduate webinar for the @ies-sas.bsky.social MA in the History of the Book taking place on Monday 24 Feb at 12pm! You can sign up here: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thanks to @lucyvinten.bsky.social and the British Jesuit Archives for introducing the @ies-sas.bsky.social students to your collections today!

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Thanks to the Royal College of Surgeons in England for welcoming the @ies-sas.bsky.social MA cohort earlier this week 🫁🫀🧠📚

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

IES are once again offering the Maggs Scholarship, an award generously funded by Maggs Bros., which covers the fees to study our History of the Book MA/MRes. Applicants who would not normally be able to study at IES due to financial / personal difficulties are especially encouraged to apply!

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Some pics from this week’s @ies-sas.bsky.social visit to the National Art Library at the V@A (inc. original manuscript copy of Bleak House and an unfinished Book of Hours) #historyofthebook

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some pics from yesterday’s IES trip to @innertemplelibrary.bsky.social , and our later seminar on conservation @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

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