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Catherine Angerson

@sonofanger.bsky.social

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Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks

Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@susanreed.bsky.social and I are looking for academic co-supervisors for a collaborative PhD project on the German friendship albums (alba amicorum/ Stammbücher) at the British Library. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Details on the website: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Papercut artwork in the friendship album of Georg Eringshausen. Egerton MS 1311, f. 74

Embroidery of sunflowers in the friendship album of Magnus Weickmann. Egerton MS 1451, f. 9.

Friendship album of Christoph Carl Clausner with a painted portrait on the left and German inscription on the right. Egerton MS 1467, f. 1v-2r.

Friendship album of Jobst Wilhelm Munker with inscription in Latin on the left and painting of three men smoking pipes on the right. Egerton MS 1427, ff. 29r-30v.

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Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My book titled, ‘Literary Networks and the Transmission of German Literature and Ideas in Britain, 1756-1806’, has been published by the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Cover for a book titled ‘Literary Networks and the Transmission of German Literature and Ideas in Britain, 1756-1806’. The image on the cover is a detail of a painting by John Eckstein showing members of a book group at Freeth’s coffee house in Birmingham.

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Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Display case in the British Library Treasures Gallery showing Jane Austen's manuscripts and printed editions.

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