Adam Smyth
lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london.
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
president Oxford Bibliographical Society
micro-essays adamsmyth.substack.com
@jamesdaybell.bsky.social
Prof EM History; Letters; Gloves; https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk; Swedish Res Council project, Moved Apart on Separation; Histories of the Unexpected Pod: https://historiesoftheunexpected.com; agent: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/james-daybell
@oliviamcc.bsky.social
Writer | Translator (French) | Dr Creativity, feminism, ecology The Lives of Z (Pavilion Poetry) - out April 2025
@bkhistoxford.bsky.social
Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
@astarre.bsky.social
Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21
@print-and-prob.bsky.social
developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
@obs1922.bsky.social
Founded 102 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚 Oxford, England oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
@emilydourish.bsky.social
Rare books at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social, frogs in my garden, medieval nuns. These are a few of my favourite things.
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
@gillpartington.bsky.social
Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
@rhwilson83.bsky.social
Producer: The Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2 | Author: Let That Be A Lesson | NI exile | Proud owner of a coveted Pointless trophy | 🏳️🌈
@nicolegreenspan.bsky.social
Historian of Early Modern Britain. Studied at Toronto, faculty at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. Works on news and media, and also royalist exiles.
@samuscript.bsky.social
Part-producer, part-historian, 100% in the archives. PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Learner gardener. Human 🦜 perch. www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
@uncouthswain.bsky.social
Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | occasional teacher | FHEA #ECR #FirstGen 🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
@jordanwelshy.bsky.social
Probably found exploring an old building | Researcher in C19th | Aspiring writer | Book lover, tea drinker & tentative beard grower | He/ Him (views my own)
@lehelton.bsky.social
Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
@eprenprof.bsky.social
Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
@jamesjmarino.bsky.social
early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer living the good life in Cleveland
@brandoninvergo.bsky.social
Inconsistent electronic(?) musician in Exeter, UK circuitously via Chicago. I do other things too but I'm mainly here to talk about music. My music lives here: https://moonatlasrecords.com
@uniformbooks.bsky.social
Imprint for visual and literary arts, cultural geography and history, music and bibliographic studies. Edited and published by Colin Sackett. colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
@danmud.bsky.social
king of the escalator, makes weird music(incl. Shaun Of The Dead), films. Generally happy camper. https://youtube.com/@NebulaRasa https://thesonsofsilence1.bandcamp.com/music OpenYellowCircle.bandcamp.com
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis. https://longbarrowpress.com
@hgot.bsky.social
I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in history of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
@andiesilva.bsky.social
Early modern print culture, book history, digital humanities, (digital) feminist pedagogy. Associate Professor at York College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. General Co-Editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of SHARP News.
@doctalectrix.bsky.social
Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen.
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. rarebookschool.org
@kateloveman.bsky.social
Mostly posting about Samuel Pepys’s diary, and other strange 17th-century stuff
@erinannmcc.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop.
@effectdefective.bsky.social
Extremity edges: bumped. Hinges: cracked. Textblocks: sturdy. Pages: clean and intact. Shakespeare editor and director, textual theorist, theatre and English professor. Bibliography > book history, science is real, human rights above all else.
@mcnaughtans.co.uk
Rare & second-hand bookshop in central Edinburgh, est. 1957. Open every day 11am to 5pm, and till 8pm on Thursdays.
@sarah-hughes.bsky.social
Artist / Composer / Sound Maker / Educator / Anti-fascist sarahhughes.info
@drawcansir.bsky.social
Lapsing academic. Books, theatre, opera. Often early modern; always out of time. Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009324120
@lspielvogel.bsky.social
@bkidd.bsky.social
PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
@thomasplumes.bsky.social
The Library of Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), established 1704 in Maldon, Essex. www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk.
@drhelenkemp.bsky.social
Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Community Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
@samanthaellis.bsky.social
Writer of books - How to be a Heroine; Take Courage & Chopping Onions on my Heart - & plays - How to Date a Feminist. www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
@popesgrotto.bsky.social
A registered charity looking after Alexander Pope's eighteenth-century Grotto in Twickenham UK. Winner, 2024 Civic Trust AABC Conservation Award. https://popesgrotto.org.uk/subscribe/
@bobmaclean.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
@srishti-g.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture | digital archives, cartoons, photography | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her. https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
@paulinakewes.bsky.social
Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford. E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies. Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
@zoejackson.bsky.social
Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, trainee lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch. Photographer and digital/analogue miniaturist. Long Covid victim. She/they. Writes at https://loreandordure.com/ 🐘 @antinomy@prattle.org.uk
@bibsoc.bsky.social
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
@medievalireland.bsky.social
Medievalist | Celticist | Research Asst Prof @TCDHistory. PI of Early Irish Hands @Research Ireland, CLÓSCAPE @TLRH, and Wandering Books. Passionate about all things medieval Irish, manuscripts, palaeography, and early Christianity in the insular world.