My copy of Manuscript Studies arrived today 🎉 It contains an essay on how medieval manuscripts ended up in @marshslibrary.bsky.social to accompany our new catalogue. Also available online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56871

Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...

Chuffed to find out I’ve been elected as a Fellow! About to use FRHistS like it’s going out of fashion

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3w ago

We are very pleased to welcome 223 historians who join the Society today - as Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members: bit.ly/3TEhyWM Our Fellows and Members teach, research, write and promote #history, within the UK and internationally, in and beyond education #Skystorians 1/2

The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond runs until 24 July. Pop over to @senatehouselib.bsky.social if you’re nearby

And so #LRBS @ies-sas.bsky.social comes to an end for the 2025/26 session. Thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social for their sponsorship and all students, staff, librarians, and friends who facilitated discussions about all aspects of #BookHistory. See you next year.

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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It was a pleasure to organise this with @clarelees.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social, Nigel Newton (Bloomsbury) and colleagues from @englishassociation.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social universityenglish.ac.uk/charter-for-... #englishCreates

Charter for Change launched at Westminster

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An excellent second day at a rather warm #LRBS @ies-sas.bsky.social. We’ve been thinking about book collecting in the long nineteenth century (and ice cream).

Week 1, Day 4 of the London Rare Books School, and we are celebrating with a reception at Maggs Bros Rare Books and Manuscripts bookshop🥂📚📜

Some of the lovely items on display right now in the Senate House Library exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’.

Are you interested in reading and readers? Join us July 7-9 for the SHARPIES, our inaugural global book history festival! Registration is free for SHARP members. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC... And if you aren't a SHARP member, joining is easy! sharpweb.org/membership/

Week 1 day 2 of the 2026 @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Book School. Here are a few pics from the Anatomy of the Book short course, which is making good use of the new printing press @sas-news.bsky.social

Wishing all the students and staff involved with London Rare Books School @ies-sas.bsky.social an excellent week. Please do share your photos and tag us. #LRBS 📚📖👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

The London Rare Books School 2026 has officially begun! Welcome to all our students and tutors!

A fantastic shot of @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social running a handpress printing workshop at Stoke City Archives earlier this week #BookHistory #handprinting

For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.

It’s day two of London International Palaeography School @ies-sas.bsky.social 📚✍️✏️

Some pics from today’s letterpress workshop at the Stoke City Archives, celebrating book making in the Potteries, as part of Lisa Blower’s @keeleuniversity.bsky.social 100 Books for 100 Years centenary project

The Print Revolution: Then and Now conference today @senatehouselib.bsky.social was great. I only got one pic, with representatives from various bibliographical presses, and here it is

A wonderful evening celebrating these brilliant people and their brilliant publications! Congratulations Christopher, Angéline, and Michael! @michaeldurrant.bsky.social

The @senatehouselib.bsky.social printer in residence Becca Drake ran some excellent sessions today. Bridging Caxton, Chaucer, contemporary poetry, and hand-press printing @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

A few pics from @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social last week. It was great to get a part of the Book Fairs 101 session and the Revolutions in Print panel both with @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social

Hanging out with @ies-sas.bsky.social and @bibsoc.bsky.social at Firsts today. Celebrating all things bookish. #BookHistory

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152612939... it still costs a bomb BUT 30% off if you use EVENT30 at checkout 😬

Manchester University Press - The dreadful name of Henry Hills

The dreadful name of Henry Hills - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The dreadful name of Henry Hills by Michael Durrant

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I would like to say a public thank-you to colleagues at @ies-sas.bsky.social, the English Association and University English for their support for my colleagues and department as we face a rapid unscheduled disassembly - the practical advice and support offered is wonderful, and we're so grateful.

The IES, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social and University English @univeng.bsky.social are always available to support colleagues throughout the sector in these challenging times. There's more information on our website here: ies.sas.ac.uk/leadership-c...

Supporting English Departments

What IES is doing to help departments cope with challenging times.

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Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I would like to say a public thank-you to colleagues at @ies-sas.bsky.social, the English Association and University English for their support for my colleagues and department as we face a rapid unscheduled disassembly - the practical advice and support offered is wonderful, and we're so grateful.

Thanks to @thelondonarchives.bsky.social for a lovely evening and the chance to see some evocative items from their collections. Here is the list of deaths in London for this week in 1666 - the year of the great fire. Plague numbers were relatively low, with more deaths from consumption.

The @senatehouselib.bsky.social Printer is Residence, Becca Drake, is delivering two free workshops and a roundtable later this month, and they’re free! First up, a zine-making workshop on 21 May: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

William Caxton Meets Small Press Poetry: a zine-making workshop

In this two hour workshop, get creative making your own zines inspired by old-school printing and fresh small press poetry and learn about the printing processes Caxton used.

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EVENT! Free online #CPD *Close reading is creative reading* Why reading closely matters from primary to higher education Join contributors to the Spring issue of the EA Newsletter & explore the topic of close reading, with experts from primary, sec., H.E. englishassociation.ac.uk/close-readin...

Close reading is creative reading (5 May 2026, 16:30 - 18:00) | The English Association

We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

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On 11 May I will be in Canterbury talking about Gervase of Canterbury, the manuscripts of his work and what they tell us about the world in which he lived. This is a free event and it would lovely to have an audience! #Skystorians #BookHistory #MedievalSky www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2026/...

The 2026 Annual Becket Lecture: In Search of Gervase of Canterbury

In Search of Gervase of Canterbury, Monk of Christ Church Canterbury in the Time of Thomas Becket

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