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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, has published 'The Last Invasion of England' investigating the Dutch Republics motives behind the daring invasion of England that led to revolution. Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-pri...

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Read our newest blog by undergraduate Gitika Sanjay, who explores a rare printed account of homosexuality in London! Click the link for more: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/from-th...

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Call for Papers
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade
University of Edinburgh
6-7 May 2027

Over the past two decades, women’s book history and feminist bibliography have exploded with renewed interest. Even so, women’s work is still to an extent seen as an exception or curiosity. It examines them from a gender history perspective, asking to what extent their relationships were influenced or determined by constructions of femininity. Proposals should therefore involve a dimension of gender analysis beyond simply the inclusion of female subjects.

This conference will seek to explore (but is not limited to) to the following themes and questions:

*Gendered Networks. To what extent were professional book trade networks gendered? How did these networks intersect with other types of women’s networks, whether they be familial, friendly, religious, political, or intellectual?
*Identity and Representation. Did women express professional solidarity with other women, and how did this manifest? How did women’s self-representation in imprints and paratext differ from men’s?
*Legal and Structural Considerations. In what ways were women’s professional networks dependent on legal structures of inheritance in their region, or participation in guilds? How did these networks stretch across economic and class divisions?
*Digital Approaches. Can digital humanities tools such as network visualisation effectively help document these relationships?

The conference will also host the launch of a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade.

Contributions will be published in a volume of conference proceedings, to be submitted by the end of 2027.

Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, virtual attendance will be available as well.

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A solar eclipse on 12 August? We have seen that before! There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best. (1/2) #eclipse2026 #solareclipse #astronomy

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢 Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews Deadline: 1 December 2026 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27

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Zachary Brookman @zbrookman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy to share a new chapter, out now as part of the volume 'Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe', discussing the multilingual multimedia reaction to the horrors of the 1620 Valtellina Massacre! #bookhistory cc @universalstc.bsky.social

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fancy a riveting tale? Read a story of murder, prostitution, paranoia, and the end of the world! Told by Demi van Breukelen, PhD candidate with the COMLAWEU, through items available via the USTC Check it out here! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/the-ren...

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And last, but most certainly not least, its Jeff Cowton (Northumbria University) with ‘Education, Economy, and Engraving: Thomas Bewick's Educational Print in Commercial Context, 1767–1797’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The final session of the conference is on ‘Specialist Business Models’ and we start with Thomas Noriega (Harvard University), ‘To the University, By the University: Defining the Academic Printer in Seventeenth-Century Leiden’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Up next, its Gabrielle Hamelin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) with ‘Teaching the Scriptures in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Use and Reception of Abbé Claude Fleury’s Catechismo istorico (Venice, 1705)’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It’s the final day of our conference, and we start with a session on ‘Controversy and Censorship’. Our first paper is from Saba Alkuwari (University of St Andrews): ‘The efforts and impact of Catholic censorship in controlling the dissemination of Philipp Melanchthon’s educational books’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And for the last paper of the day, its Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz (University of Wrocław), ‘Printing Devotion, Educating Clergy: D. Henrique’s Editorial Programme in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Évora’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

For our final session of the day, on ‘Confessional Debates in Education’, we start with Gunilla Eschenbach (German Literature Archive Marbach/University of Stuttgart): ‘Rewriting the Catechism: Pietist Pedagogy and Child Agency around 1700’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Finally, its Jonathan Privett-Mendoza (University of York) with ‘Language and Power: A Critical Examination of the Spanish-Catholic Missionaries' Role in Shaping Filipino Grammars’ #USTC26

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Wojciech Kordyzon @wkordyzon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s always so much fun to present at @universalstc.bsky.social !

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The second paper of this session is ‘Travelling Books for Learning Cyrillic (exemplars of early prints in Britain and Ireland)’ from Oleksandr Okhrimenko (University of Birmingham) #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And the final paper of this session, from Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University/King’s College London), is ‘Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes while organising a transnational Literary Textbooks/Teaching Archive’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Following the coffee break, we’re back with another session on ‘Colonial and Missionary Print’. The first paper comes from Tiara Ulfah (University of Hamburg), ‘Printing Education in Colonial Singapore: The Making of Malay Vernacular Readers’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And last but not least, its Ciara Sheehan (University of Limerick) with ‘The Manuale Scholarium in print: pedagogical function, and the representation of the akademische Deposition in the late medieval university’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Up next, its Richard Kirwan with ‘The duties of friendship: print and reputation in the early modern university’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We kick off the third day of our Print and Education conference with a session on ‘University Print’. First up, it’s the brilliant Giovanni Petrocelli on ‘From lecture hall to printing press: Student mediation and the circulation of medical teaching at Sixteenth-Century Padua’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And last but not least, we have Geoffrey Day with ‘Thomas Dyche’s A Guide to the English Tongue: why have so few copies survived?’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our last panel of the day is on ‘bestsellers’, and we begin with ‘A Forgotten Classic: The Curious Case of Corderius in the Early American Classroom’ from Theodore R. Delwiche (Heidelberg University) #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And finally, its Aivar Põldvee and Wendelin Sroka with ‘German- and Estonian-language rooster primers in the hand press era: knowledge creation on origins and developments over time and space’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Up next, its ‘Winds of change: Reading primers from the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries in German-speaking Switzerland’ from Britta Juska-Bacher (Berne University of Teacher Education) #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We kick off with a paper from Charlotte Appel (Aarhus University): ‘Four printed books for children. Features and functions of primers, catechisms, gospel books, and the so-called ‘catechism explanations’ in early modern Denmark (c. 1530-1780)’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Following lunch, we have a panel on all things ‘Primers and Catechisms’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Now we have a paper from Simi Nath (University of Delhi) on ‘The History of Textbooks in Early Colonial India’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And following the coffee break, we now have a panel on ‘Colonial and Missionary Print’, starting with Natale Vacalebre (University of Alcalá) on ‘Teachers and Printers: Circulation and Production of Jesuit Schoolbooks between Rome and New Spain’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And last but not least, we have Graeme Kemp and Sandy Wilkinson with ‘Learning Through the Image: Visualisation and Pedagogy in Early Modern Print’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Next, we have a paper from Elisa Marazzi (Milan University) on ‘Grasping the world through image and colour. Illustration in primers and other literacy aids in a transnational perspective’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Up first we have a session on ‘Comparative Perspectives on Educational Print’. We begin with a paper from Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University) on ‘Children’s Instructional Print in Early Modern Europe’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are back with our conference on Print and Education! #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And our final paper of the day is from Mia Joskowicz, who is based at Tel Aviv University. She is examining ‘Framing Communities of Learning: Title Pages of Euclid’s Elements and Early Modern Mathematical Education’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our final session of the day, chaired by Sarah Parker, is on Mathematics and Applied Learning. We begin with a paper from Klára Andresová (Czech Academy of Sciences), ‘Ars Militaris: Military Manuals as Textbooks for Future Officers’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The second paper of this session comes from our former MLitt student, the brilliant Mary Moore, who is now undertaking a PhD at Ohio University! Her paper examines ‘Paratext and the Margins in English Children’s Books 1740-1850’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

After lunch, we return with a session on the ‘Lives and Afterlives of Anglophone Children’s Books’. Up first it's @katieaske.bsky.social, with a paper on ‘Playing with Books: The Child’s New Play-Thing (1742), Educational Practice and Materiality’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And with ‘Print and power in the classroom: reconstructing the bookscape of charity schools in eighteenth-century Highland Scotland’ we have our conference co-organiser, @jamesafox.bsky.social! #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The first of two papers in this session is from William Lewis of the University of Glasgow. His paper explores ‘‘Pslame buiks for bairnes’. Edinburgh Book Traders and Education in the age of the Covenant’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our second session, chaired by Mhairi Winfield, has a local flavour to it, with ‘the Scottish Educational Landscape’. #USTC26

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#bookhistory folks, this looks fun: #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And last but not least, its our co-director Arthur der Weduwen! His paper is on ‘Professors, Politics and Print: Orations on Contemporary Politics and News Events held at Dutch Universities, 1575-1713’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Up next, we have Mykhailo Tupytsia (Ukrainian Catholic University) with a paper on ‘Print Culture and Education: Dimensions of Confessional Disciplining in the Eighteenth-Century Mukachevo Eparchy’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our first panel on ‘Academic-Adjacent Print’ kicks off with a paper from one of our co-organisers, Chloe Akers-Brewer, on ‘Multilingual Congratulations in the Academic Ephemera of Early Modern Europe’ #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It’s the first day of our conference on Print and Education! We are beginning with a mixture of online and in‑person papers. You can follow along at #USTC26

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's almost time!!! We have less than a week before our Book History Conference. Lots of great panels are planned! If you'd like to join online please contact the organizers, Chloe Akers-Brewers or James Fox. Learn more about the conference program here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference

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