Book History
#BookHistory, History of Publishing, Reading, Bookselling. Work in progress, please message if you want to be included!
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@juliaboechat.bsky.social
@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
@gingeykate.bsky.social
Libraries. Archives. Fun finds. Digital projects. Interested in all things history of the book and print culture. Low-key paper nerd. Research Services Archivist. she/her.
@pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social
Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
@uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social
Uitgeverij Armorica specialiseert zich in de publicatie van werken die voortkomen uit de master Boekwetenschap aan de UvA. Onze uitgaven omvatten masterscripties, proefschriften en andere publicaties op het gebied van boekgeschiedenis en boekwetenschap.
@cmohge.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature, University of London @ies-sas.bsky.social & @dh-researchhub.bsky.social. Co-dir. of https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/. Book history, digital humanities, and literature. https://christopherohge.com
@cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social
Updates on book history, print culture and digital humanities. Tweets do not reflect views of my employer.
@ttubhdh.bsky.social
graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php
@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.
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval history, Cairo Genizah, Semitic languages | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' available now: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU
@peripheralmss.bsky.social
Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜 https://peripheralmss.org
@manuscriptacademy.bsky.social
The Happiest Place in Publishing! Classes, agent consultations + a thriving community at ManuscriptAcademy.com. Brought to you by the makers of Manuscript Wish List® + #MSWL.
@thenmct.bsky.social
We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
@stemma.bsky.social
An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie
@sims-mss.bsky.social
We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together. https://schoenberginstitute.org/
@rgmemss.bsky.social
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books? Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
@universalstc.bsky.social
The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world. Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram
@print-and-prob.bsky.social
developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
@ies-sas.bsky.social
Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
@zibaldoni.bsky.social
山人. 'The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper' is available everywhere. 'Book of the Year' pick by Waterstones, New Yorker, New Statesman, Spectator, Toronto Globe, Engelsberg Ideas, Lit Hub, Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday, Stephen L. Carter...
@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
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of NNYSS | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book on New York School poets with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
@laurasdeluca.bsky.social
Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon
@hlaehnemann.bsky.social
Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
@kajamarczewska.bsky.social
Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020)
@arthurwestwell.bsky.social
Medieval historian. Liturgical manuscripts. Romanesque churches. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Regensburg. Picture: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.lat.958 and Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 184
@apocalypsisnova.bsky.social
early modern historian working on prophecies, belief and reading practices | EUI/CSIC PhD | «Τὸ 'χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά' δοκῶ μοι εἰδέναι». https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
@melusinagr.bsky.social
Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (ie Satura journal). Luddite. Dabbles in art, with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History by researching Indigenous NA newspapers. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
@bibliomaria.bsky.social
Academic editing, translation [DE and FR>EN], book history in early modern Germany & France, media history, art & art history. Once I had tenure, now I walk the trails of southern Maine.
@preprintculture.bsky.social
Postdoc / science studies / historical sociology / media history / interested in the field of academic publishing & the mediatization of scientific practice / currently writing a history of preprints in physics: https://preprint-culture.net / modular synth
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶PhD in C17-18 book history & bibliography ¶Anglo-German print & typography ¶queer media history ¶video game, arthouse cinema, & public transit enjoyer ¶Librarian-in-training ¶ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🏳️🌈 He/Him 📍Texan in DC https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I do enjoy my work | 🐘 https://historians.social/@dbellingradt | linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
@farleypkatz.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
@aaronm.bsky.social
I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order. https://www.cokldb.org/ https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
@rlprm.bsky.social
Director, Ernst Mayr and Botany Libraries, Harvard. Collaborator, listener, pie enthusiast. Perpetually curious. Outdoor-oriented.
@svanimpe.bsky.social
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
@hillemmalouise.bsky.social
Recently quit my PhD but have created a census of John Flamsteed’s two star catalogues (AMA).
@aileenfyfe.bsky.social
Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
@ceyingst.bsky.social
researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently between Edinburgh & the US currently Bibliography Fellow @ The Linda Hall Library
@jillegage.bsky.social
Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains.
@bibliowitz.bsky.social
Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
@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
@book-historia.bsky.social
Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. She/they. Biblioshitposter.
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News. W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
@rjagersma.bsky.social
PhD | Book Historian | 17c and 18c | Quantitative #bookhistory | metadata | 🏳️🌈
@philiphahn.bsky.social
Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading
@sasoeurjuliette.bsky.social
Academia alter-ego of Juliette de Bertole. #Celestina #BookHistory #HispanicMedievalLiterature #HispanicStudies #MetalStudies
@lizfischer0.bsky.social
Medievalist DH researcher | Consultant working with GLAM on AI/data R&D Writing book on #NetworkAnalysis in #BookHistory (they/she) lizmfischer.com
@scstrecker.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate, Late Medieval/Early Modern History, Yale. Early modern religious culture through exempla! Local 33. #digitalhumanities, #bookhistory, #earlymodernwomen. Reading, baking, Star Trek. she/her. Views mine.
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, SFF editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 11x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head of RBML at Illinois; Verity podcast; Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. I don’t auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
@martinamampieri.bsky.social
MSCA Global Fellow @ Penn and Modena • Author of "Living under the Evil Pope" (Brill 2020) • Co-Ed H-Judaic & EMoDiR • prev fellow @HebrewU, Oxford, Harvard, Göttingen, IRHT/CNRS #earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory 📍 Philadelphia
@agnesgehbald.bsky.social
postdoc @uniBern #bookhistory author of A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (CUP 2024) bit.ly/3NEXFbA now #migrationhistory: return migration from the Americas
@memps2.bsky.social
Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell) Coined #HerBook
@mrlefferts.bsky.social
Loves the Middle Ages, book bindings, special collections librarians, DH. Works for the Consortium of European Research Libraries (www.cerl.org) #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
@chrisvvarren.bsky.social
Knowledge-monger at Carnegie Mellon University: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, wrote a book called literature & the law of nations, co-founder of six degrees of francis bacon. humanities for all.
@miyamotoben.bsky.social
Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - CREW EA 4399) Book history, Art World, Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & Artists. Currently resident scholar at CNRS (délégation) She/her/Dr
@pedroterres.bsky.social
Historiador pela UNICAMP 🗃 | Wikimedista | Pesquisando história das enciclopédias no Brasil #BookHistory
@john-stone.bsky.social
Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking. English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone #18thC #bookhistory
@memoiresdulivre.bsky.social
Revue bilingue spécialisée en #HistoireDuLivre, disponible en libre accès | Open access bilingual journal specializing in #BookHistory
@calrbs.bsky.social
California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
@juliaboechat.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching #BookHistory in the Soviet Union | VP and Editor-in-Chief @isha-international.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷, studied in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹| Passionate about literature, traveling and swing dancing (she / her)