We are so proud of the brilliant work of friends and contributors in this issue: thank you to all who brainstormed, peer reviewed, proofread, and helped us think through these #QueerBibliography subjects!

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - lih: Vol 42, No 2

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Malcolm Noble@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · yesterday

The first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.

@ceyingst.bsky.social explores the circulation of ballads about "female soldiers" and sailors, finding affirming trans histories in this print culture. 'Circulating the female surgeon ballad, or, information for the early modern female-to-male transsexual' www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Isabel Imhorst looks at bibliogaphic activism in libraries in the contest of section 28 and looks at the importance of this labour. 'Out on the shelves: bibliographic activism and lesbian literature in 1980s Britain' www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Tim Pye looks at how the presentation of National Trust libraries owes much to queer bibliographical communities in ‘"The outward beauty of the shelves was my main object": Robert Gathorne-Hardy and the National Trust's libraries as queer spaces' www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

@elibranagh.bsky.social talks through tensions of what to call repositories of queer material ‘History that matters’: an affective historiography of ‘queer’ at the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives in 1990s Australia www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Claudia Frick offers a brave view on the inheritance of German librarians "On the fringes of memory: tracing queer history and recurring patterns towards queer-inclusive resilience in German libraries www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

First: the editorial with @ewatson.bsky.social discusses libraries and communities, starting, inevitably, with William Beckford, perhaps the most obsessive queer book collector: "Queer Bibliography and the Library part 1: communities" www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

The first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.

It was such an incredible honor to launch my book at #EMBIC2026. I could not imagine a better venue nor a better co-launch partner than @ewatson.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who made the evening so special!!!

Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800@catholicismsem.bsky.social · last mo.

Great launch event at #EMBIC2026 for the series' two publications so far this year: Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688, and Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by @creutcke.bsky.social and @ewatson.bsky.social #skystorians #history #bookhistory #earlymodern

Great launch event at #EMBIC2026 for the series' two publications so far this year: Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688, and Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by @creutcke.bsky.social and @ewatson.bsky.social #skystorians #history #bookhistory #earlymodern

It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age

Reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age, reconstructing lost works to discover the lived experience of a religious community marginalised within a multi-...

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It's almost here! So looking forward to this being out in the world

Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800@catholicismsem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Published this month, the 6th volume in the series! Order 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' by @ewatson.bsky.social here and get 35% off using the code BB897: boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a... #skystorians #CathHist #history #bookhistory #catholicism

Coming to your library shelves this summer!

Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800@catholicismsem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Delighted to announce the 6th volume in the series will be published in June! Click here for details about the forthcoming 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' by @ewatson.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a... #skystorians #CathHist #history #bookhistory #catholicism

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

Ledger stone of Antwerp almanac publisher Godtgaf Verhulst in Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, with his first, second AND third wives. Pretty crowded 😬

Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)

In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory

How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

#WomensHistoryMonth women reading/reading women: - earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook - earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au - www.emwmlibrary.com - franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com - recirc.universityofgalway.ie

Early Modern Female Book Ownership

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Intriguing example of #HerBook! This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture. (Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!) #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚

Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

The libellous letters of the Chevalier d’Eon

Pre-trial statements from this 1776 dispute between the Chevalier d’Eon and Charles de Morande provide intricate details about these two French spies.

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‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2y ago

‘It is not in wordplay, in hazelnuts and hazelnots, though theology has tangled itself so much in those things. The wound of experience is presented, open; it does not need to be probed, it is believed.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social on the mystics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil

Lily@lilywrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

just logged into this site for the first time in weeks (i just finished my novel and had told myself i wouldn't look until i was done) and jesus christ what a thing to come back to

RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it

Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson

Elise Watson@ewatson.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre

"Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre" published on 18 Nov 2024 by Brill.

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