Elise Watson

It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

I'm working on a chapter about imprints and self-fashioning and whenever a new fictional member of the Marteau family appears I cheer like I'm watching the end credits of a Marvel movie (USTC 2643059 and 1832827)

New #OpenAccess #History: Alice Thornton’s Books Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman Edited by Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?

A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

There is no joy like getting excited, engaged students into the weeds of queer historiography in the very first class, this one hits every single time (Trans Care by Hil Malatino, p. 57)

Finally experienced the classic bibliographer's nightmare of waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat realising that you said 'variant state‘ multiple times in front of a large group of people when you actually meant 'variant issue‘

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

Join us on 15 September, 8:00-9:30 pm CEST, for our very first Nottebohm Talks! Former Nottebohm Fellows will present their research conducted in Antwerp thanks to our Nottebohm Fellowship. More info & registration: sl1nk.com/ti9htou Meet our speakers! 👇1/ #rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 📜📚💙

Very profound how archival records can reflect your own feelings reading them...

This fellowship was totally transformative to my research and both institutions are amazing places to work! Highly recommend applying

Through the story of Jacob Buyck, a 16th century exiled Catholic priest, @ewatson.bsky.social explores how book collections were used to build and define identity, and can endure as records of their owners' lives. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/GEKwrgt @imems.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

It was such an incredible honor to launch my book at #EMBIC2026. I could not imagine a better venue nor a better co-launch partner than @ewatson.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who made the evening so special!!!

Great launch event at #EMBIC2026 for the series' two publications so far this year: Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688, and Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by @creutcke.bsky.social and @ewatson.bsky.social #skystorians #history #bookhistory #earlymodern

It's almost here! So looking forward to this being out in the world

Coming to your library shelves this summer!

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

Ledger stone of Antwerp almanac publisher Godtgaf Verhulst in Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, with his first, second AND third wives. Pretty crowded 😬

Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)

In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory

How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

#WomensHistoryMonth women reading/reading women: - earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook - earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au - www.emwmlibrary.com - franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com - recirc.universityofgalway.ie

Intriguing example of #HerBook! This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture. (Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!) #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚

Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations

RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it

Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson

New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...