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📢 ATTN BOOK HISTORY PEOPLE 📚 Have you or a friend published an edited collection on a #BookHistory topic in 2026? A monograph? An exhibition catalogue? Yes?! Submit the citation information to have the work included in the SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Reminder! Applications due November 1! #BookHistory

Reminder! Applications due November 1! #BookHistory

Q for #BookHistory and #ArtHistory folks. I'm looking for a reading to assign 3rd year undergrads that describes the process of production for early modern engravings. This is not my area of expertise, and I'm having trouble finding something that works. The course is Histories of the Book. Thanks!

📢 OPPORTUNITY WITH SHARP NEWS We are looking for TWO PEOPLE to take responsibility of the SHARP News Book Reviews section for a 3-year term starting in 2027. See the full call for applicants: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #BookReviews

📢 OPPORTUNITY WITH SHARP NEWS We are looking for someone to join the SHARP News Bibliography team for a 3-year term starting in 2027. A great opportunity for established scholars, ECRs, or grad students! See the full call for applicants: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography

⭐ Submit a proposal for a the Features section of SHARP News! Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Learn more about what the Features section is and what your post could look like: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/wp... #BookHistory

Reminder! We are looking for Book Reviewers! Check out the original post for more details/links. #BookHistory #BookReviews 👇

Reminder to submit! #BookHistory

A glimpse into the sixteenth-century printing office. This 16th-century Bible sheet became a printer’s copy: a gathering from an earlier edition, marked in red by compositors and used as copy for a new setting, placed on the visorium above the type cases. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📚💙📜

#BookHistory and #EarlyModern workshop hosted by SFU in downtown Vancouver in a few weeks! Free and open at all interested!

Okay, maybe some #bookhistory people can help me? I'm thinking about the moment in Areopagitica where Milton writes that books recently were judged upon reception: 'if it prov'd a Monster, who denies, but that it was justly burnt, or sunk into the Sea'.

Thinking about books & publishing from a different perspective? Want to write a review of the new game/trend that foregrounds bookishness? Want to express how the Muppets have influenced your book history pedagogy? Submit a proposal to @sharpnews.bsky.social Features! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🍎 SHARP In The Classroom -- New Post! 🍎 Holly Hoffmann, "Using _The Saint John’s Bible_ in Primary Source Instruction." #BookHistory #Pedagogy #Teaching #Medieval #IlluminatedManuscript Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

My @sharpnews.bsky.social book review of Vanessa Warne's brilliant "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" has now been published! Read here why you should absolutely, definitely read this book. sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence is out - do order it for your library! Details below ⬇️ @ies-sas.bsky.social @ouliterature.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @sharpnews.bsky.social

Did you or a friend complete a thesis or dissertation on a book history topic between 2024 and 2025? Submit the information here to have it included in our SHARP 2024-2025 Thesis and Dissertation Biliography! #Thesis #Dissertation #Research #BookHistory Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

REMINDER TO SUBMIT! #BookHistory #Publishing #Authorship #Reading #Bibliography

The new banners have arrived! Can Houdini--or his library--be far behind? Coming soon to @ransomcenter.bsky.social: www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/... #BookHistory #magic 🗃️📜📚

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This is a fantastic blog that examines how we should think about #earlymodern marginalia & #bookhistory. Of the examples provided there are also two by women who owned works by Shakespeare #herbook. Paging @martinevanelk.bsky.social @rossmith.bsky.social @franceswolfreston.bsky.social

Boosting the signal for any medievalists, digital humanists, historians of the book, or manuscript enthusiasts in the audience... #skystorians #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #metadata 🗃️📜

Hey, #bookhistory people, especially those who work on incunabula: Do Christian printers wax poetic (literally) about the miracle of print? I've taken it for granted from the Hebrew printers (they have many wonderful poems on the glories of print), but this may have just been a Jewish thing..?

It's Monday again. Why not brighten up your day with a bit of #BookHistory from PhD student Saba Alkuwari (University of St Andrews)?

In case you missed it, Bernard Meehan’s lecture on the Cutbercht Gospels (the 2026 Coffin lecture in Palaeography) is now online. #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #palaeography www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ker9...

There must be people in @sharpweb.org @sharpnews.bsky.social #BookHistory who have experience with scraping data from GoodReads? Julia's institutional profile if you can help! 👇 #BAVS2026

Rare first edition of Burns’s Kilmarnock Edition goes on display at Edinburgh Writers’ Museum Printed in Kilmarnock & published on 21 July 1786 in a run of just over 600 copies, only around 90 are known to survive today & each copy is different #BookHistory #C18 www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...

My American Historical Review article about 19th-century African American doctor James McCune Smith has been published. Download it for FREE: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... #history #blackhistory #data #womenshistory #histmed #histsci #bookhistory #STS @africanarchives.bsky.social

⭐New! You can now use the following form to submit the citation information for any work you found to be missing from any of our past Annual Bibliographies. You can find this link on our submissions page for future use, too! #BookHistory #Bibliography docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Can't wait to read this! Ann Blair's work played a fundamental role in shaping my understanding to the kinds of #agency embedded in the #earlymodern #writing and #reading practices that shaped #health and #naturalhistory #information #systems. #bookhistory #hstm press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

Excited for my latest library checkout: @ewatson.bsky.social’s Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age!

If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!