Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

Printing Historical Society have lots of free books to go out to reviewers. We ask for 5-800 words, and you'd have up to a year for the task. Let me know if anything takes your fancy! www.printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk/society-publ...

Top 5 articles from last month in the Shandean journal. Read more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...

The Shandean journal is pleased to support this conference, in Aix-en-Provence, Autumn 2027. The theme is travel and cultural exchanges in the age of Sterne, meaning you don't have to be a Sternean to join us! CFP deadline, February 2027. www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

‘Lessons in mutual toleration’? Travel and Cultural Exchanges in the Age of Sterne (Aix-Marseille Université)

[CFP] ‘Lessons in mutual toleration’? Travel and Cultural Exchanges in the Age of Sterne International conference – Aix-Marseille Université, Nov. 8-10, 2027.  Organizing committee: Nathalie Bernard,…

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Our Finding Aid of 18th-century women in the Stationers' Company is LIVE! Here I reflect on some of the pitfalls facing the scholar of female apprentices. Let me know if it's useful! www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blo...

Join the wonderful Tania Hershman for an evening Zoom masterclass with Arvon: The Journey from Academic to General Readership Permission to experiment 10/10 recommend: see you there! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Masterclass: The Journey from Academic to General Readership | Permission to experiment | Arvon

Academics encounter fascinating stories in their research and archival work, but don’t often have the storytelling and writing tools to share these stories in creative and playful ways. Whether…

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Want to read a watermark but there’s too much text on it? Then use the magic eraser. It’s really simple: you upload a photo and the image appears without the ink. #siteoftheweek

Honoured and excited to give this year’s annual Women’s History Lecture at St. Andrew’s this Thursday. I’ll be speaking about my new project, Towards a Global History of Women in Book Production 1600-1900 📚

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We have got a great set of events for you this week, including our Women’s History Lecture with @drwilliams.bsky.social from Northumbria University on Thursday!

For #InternationalWomensDay I wrote about the history of women in Stationers' Company, sharing outputs from my @britishacademy.bsky.social Innovation Fellowship with @stationerscomms.bsky.social 📚 animation 📚 online exhibition 📚 finding aid of women in the apprentice registers okt.to/ARVDHM

For #InternationalWomensDay I wrote about the history of women in Stationers' Company, sharing outputs from my @britishacademy.bsky.social Innovation Fellowship with @stationerscomms.bsky.social 📚 animation 📚 online exhibition 📚 finding aid of women in the apprentice registers okt.to/ARVDHM

Each year, Liverpool University Press offers a free issue of each journal. This year's free Shandean is volume 32 (2021), featuring philosophy, translation, travel, double entendre, the provincial book trade, and Whig politics, & gorgeous images. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/shandean...

We're in paperback! And we have a discount code! *Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture* manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195425/

Last Chance: Pandemic Artefacts We've extended the deadline for our call for objects to 30 Jan. Our project features items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

Our President's Prize is awarded to the best paper delivered by a #PGR at #BSECS2026. Nominate papers electronically (see the QR code in your programme) or do it the old fashioned way by handing over your handwritten form at the registration desk. Deadline Sunday 11 January at MIDNIGHT #skystorians

LOOK! My conference paper and my location are in perfect synch! #BSECS2026 #foodhist #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Reviewers sought for Journal of the Printing Historical Society: 📚 Achille Davy-Rigaux and Eric Kindel, eds., Stencilled Music Books in France, 1669–1841 [open access special issue] 📚 Richard Ardagh, Type Archived [book] ECRs and printers welcome!

Typography papers 10 – Typography & Graphic Communication

The articles in this tenth volume of Typography papers were first essayed at ‘Rencontres musicologiques de Valenciennes: “Le livre de musique au pochoir: techniques, répertoires, ateliers”’, a…

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*The Shandean* top-read articles in December: The amazing Amelia Dale got a Christmas number one! The top three are open access and you can read more at: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

We have a copy of Richard Ardagh's beautiful *Type Archived* book to review for the *Journal of the Printing Historical Society*. Who's gonna snap it up? I'm sore tempted myself... vol.co/collections/...

Type Archived

A publishing platform for books on visual culture

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Recently, we at @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social had a visit from @ostfoldmuseene.bsky.social to look at the dragon we are keeping in our collection. Yes, we have A REAL DRAGON BONE IN OUR COLLECTION! #museumlife

Brought to mind this wonderful book (and talk) from Anthony Grafton (@scaliger.bsky.social) as well; one for #bookhistory folks and #skystorians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUC...

Codex in Crisis | Anthony Grafton | Talks at Google

YouTube video by Talks at Google

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Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

We have a copy of Richard Ardagh's beautiful *Type Archived* book to review for the *Journal of the Printing Historical Society*. Who's gonna snap it up? I'm sore tempted myself... vol.co/collections/...

Type Archived

A publishing platform for books on visual culture

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We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

Vacancies - BSECS

Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

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Call for Objects: Pandemic Artefacts We would like to feature items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

I wrote about the 1728 arrest of Elizabeth Nutt and her accomplices for a libellous issue of *Mist's Journal*. The list of prisoners tells us 📘 even housekeepers, servants, and maids were suspected 📗 female networks were key to the opposition press www.vmop.org.uk/blog/elizabe... #bookhistory

Elizabeth Nutt’s Network: Prisoners of the Persian Libel — Virtual Museum of Printing

Helen Williams, Northumbria University   Elizabeth Nutt née Carr (1666?-1746) ran one of the most important wholesale businesses of the early eighteenth-century book trade. For three decades, her…

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The theme is “periphery and identity” and will be held June 30 and July 1st 2026 — which I note runs up against Playful Learning Association’s meeting (on “adult learning”) 1-3 July.

Dr Rebecca Williams@augustaquarius.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to announce that we are hosting the BDiGRA (British Digital Games Research Association) 2026 Conference at the University of South Wales. Conference Announcement and Call For Papers below bdigra.co.uk/bdigra-2026-...

We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

Vacancies - BSECS

Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

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*The Journal of the Printing Historical Society* is looking for book reviewers! Latest offering linked here but let us know if you'd like to be approached for others, or if you have a book to be reviewed. www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/... #bookreviews

Excited for the forum tomorrow - everyone welcome! northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-sche...

*The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice* is out now, featuring our essay on pandemic arts at Shandy Hall and Abbotsford: 'Creative Programming in the Literary Heritage Sector amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic'. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... #Pandemic #LiteraryHeritage #Museums

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It provides a comprehensive study of ways in which heritage…

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