How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

By what I still worry must be a glaring clerical error, I will be spending the coming term at All Souls. Let’s catch up, Oxford people! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-jo...

Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 12mo ago

Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon? “Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

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The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · last yr.

The earliest known depiction of a crop circle is in The Mowing-Devil (1678), a 5-page pamphlet which recounts a labor dispute ending with an unwitting deal with the devil, and a field mown in way “that no Mortal Man was able to do the like”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #cropcircles

Where’s Hilary gone?!

Registration for the 3rd Queer Bibliography symposium is now live! Please share widely. Attendance is FREE with registration; the symposium runs 11-13 June both in-person at Newcastle University (UK) & online. Register (by 09 June): bit.ly/QB2025Register Short Programme: bit.ly/QB2025ShortP...

Queer Bibliography 2025: Attendee Registration

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Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.

On a list! And with Henry Hemming and Kate Summerscale, too. Chuffed.

The Crime Writers' Association@thecwa.bsky.social · last yr.

Announcing the longlist for the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction! Congratulations, authors and good luck in the next round! #CWA_Daggers #Daggers_2025

Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6

Good lord. This collation is becoming deranged. MN?!!

Here’s my diary for this month’s Literary Review. Mostly it’s about Julia Donaldson. literaryreview.co.uk/destroy-whil...

Joseph Hone - Destroy While Reading

Joseph Hone: Destroy While Reading

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I saw this wonderful copy of F1 today at Berkeley (shakespearecensus.org/sc/5202/) This page looks absolutely normal at a glance. But all the prelims in this copy are facsimile. Normally this would be seen as loss, but these are by the 19th-century master of the art, John Harris. 1/3

Very happy to have this piece in the new PBSA. Sure it’s a tad provocative in places, but even if people don’t agree on every point, hopefully it will be useful to think with. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Forensic Bibliography | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 1

Abstract This article traces the genealogy of “forensic bibliography” in the Anglophone world from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. It argues that many of the methods and procedures ...

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Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

Is there anything more satisfying than completing a set, one volume at a time, over many years and across many second-hand bookshops?

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...

Gender and the Book Trades

"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.

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Sorry. The WHAT eating house?

Here’s a game. Just filed a review for next month’s @historytoday.com. Who am I talking about?

They said it couldn’t be done! All three Reynolds Stone alphabets ready to be mounted and framed.

Fabulous 2-year fellowship at @theul.bsky.social / @theulspeccoll.bsky.social! The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History. Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby

Munby Fellowship

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What a lovely list to be part of!

Unseen Histories@unseenhistories.com · 2y ago

From Paris to India, King Richard II to the Commonwealth of England, here are our favourite books of 2024 w/ @josephinequinn.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @josephhone.bsky.social @daisydunn.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @alicehunt.bsky.social www.unseenhistories.com/our-favourit...

Today’s set-up. Will my eyes survive the day?

@historytoday.com asked for my books of the year: featuring Noel Malcolm and @misswalsingham.bsky.social

History Today@historytoday.com · 2y ago

#Imperialism and #India, #spies and seafarers, #paganism and the polis: the first 12 of 25 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2024. 📚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚’𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏 𝐧𝐨𝐰 www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Nice to see Noel Malcolm's Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 included here, chosen by @josephhone.bsky.social. 🌈📚🗃️

History Today@historytoday.com · 2y ago

#Imperialism and #India, #spies and seafarers, #paganism and the polis: the first 12 of 25 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2024. 📚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚’𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏 𝐧𝐨𝐰 www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

I have a toddler zooming around the house shouting ‘no dinner; just chocolate’. It’s going to be an evening.

Okay here’s a puzzle. Saw this cool book in our Spec Colls: bookplate of Edward Burne-Jones. Except I’m pretty sure it’s in the Doves Type, which wasn’t commissioned till 1899. And EBJ died in 1898. Thoughts?

Freezer died in the night. Send thoughts and prayers and £500 for a new one.

Hi everyone, I've made my first starter pack for Rare Books and Spec Coll folks. I am completely sure I've missed folks, so please speak up in a reply and I'll add you to the pack! follow on, friends! 📜 #bookhistory go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS