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
@jalollar.bsky.social
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024) British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)
@jessehurlbut.bsky.social
Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
@jessicapressman.bsky.social
Professor of English and Comparative Literature @ San Diego State University. Co-founder of SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative. —Electronic literature, bookishness, and mermaids #mermaidlit jessicapressman.com
@whitneytrettien.bsky.social
Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & book history, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Still a punk.
@juliawalworth.bsky.social
Medievalist, book and library historian, lover of all libraries, Fellow Librarian at Merton College Oxford
@jacnorton.bsky.social
Humanities publishing by day, trying to figure it all out around the edges
@helenmcgilp.bsky.social
Researcher, Lecturer and Practitioner across areas of Design, Design Process, Creative Process, Recording, Memory, Photography, Fashion, Drawing, Documenting …
@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
📖Writing and teaching on Middle English literature in Oxford 💀BOOK CURSES out now from Bodleian Publishing ✏️Being creatively critical @guildmedmak.bsky.social 🍂Liker of print making, woodland-haunting & folk horror She/her
@bamcshane.bsky.social
women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
@lesliehowsam.bsky.social
Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013). https://lesliehowsam.ca/
@kmilne.bsky.social
Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱) working on DH, and medieval English lit and book history. Olim University of Ottawa 🇨🇦. She/her.
@spensersociety.bsky.social
Fashioning a gentleman or noble person, one morall vertue at a time
@sarakbarker.bsky.social
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@akhuseby.bsky.social
Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
@beckettreading.bsky.social
News and Events from The Samuel Beckett Research Centre and the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, UK.
@blackwellrare.bsky.social
Blackwell's Rare Books buys and sells rare books of all kinds, since 1879. Purveyor of #badlydrawnanimals. Follow us on Instagram @blackwellrare
@mgyarn.bsky.social
Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
@ellie-hardy.bsky.social
Recovering academic. Institute manager at the Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social
@kevinboniface.bsky.social
Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38 Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
@liamsims.bsky.social
Rare Books Specialist at Cambridge University Library | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Bibliographical Society Council Member | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (see pinned post for link to thesis) 🌈
@sophieratcliffe.bsky.social
Writer, academic, thinks about collections, archives, grief, love and the kitchen sink - most recent book Loss, A Love Story www.sophieratcliffe.com
@inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
@michelinewhite.bsky.social
Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
@lauraestill.bsky.social
Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
@cjg70.bsky.social
Early Medievalist working on Italy, Europe, Maghrib, Mediterranean and economies; at Uni Cambridge; currently at American Academy in Rome. In to: urban gardening; city cycling; swimming in the sea. Most recent book: https://tinyurl.com/mr75n
@jemlf.bsky.social
AHRC-funded English PhD candidate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Researching the queer depiction of Diana in the early modern period.
@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social
Lecturer in Book History at IES. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills, out soon with MUP, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
@clarelees.bsky.social
Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Medievalist. Feminist. Poetry now and in the last 1000 or so years. Arts. Practice. All kinds of books and their histories.
@shelflifemr.bsky.social
Author of 'Shelf Life', a history of the British book trade, to be published by The History Press February 2025. Agent Cull and Co Agency. Sales Director, GMC Distribution.
@bookllyfr.bsky.social
/'əʊɪn mək'naɪt/ librarian・pedestrian・own views・they/them・Net Zero・Vision Zero・not my king・no gods・no masters・no borders・no statues・no heroes・❄️
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@roaringgirle.bsky.social
¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & handwriting in old books (vide milton reads shakespeare &c) ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
@phoebecooper.bsky.social
life after an unfinished history PhD | work with historical records & genealogy at MyHeritage | Metadata is cool | worked with rare books in a previous life 🏴 based near Edinburgh
@saracharles.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady. www.teachingmanuscripts.com PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@calthalas.bsky.social
Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well. Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | Tutor for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education
@proflroach.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
@sjlahey.bsky.social
Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
@etreharne.bsky.social
Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.