Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Michael Durrant
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For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
Some pics from today’s letterpress workshop at the Stoke City Archives, celebrating book making in the Potteries, as part of Lisa Blower’s @keeleuniversity.bsky.social 100 Books for 100 Years centenary project
The Print Revolution: Then and Now conference today @senatehouselib.bsky.social was great. I only got one pic, with representatives from various bibliographical presses, and here it is
A few pics from @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social last week. It was great to get a part of the Book Fairs 101 session and the Revolutions in Print panel both with @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social
The @senatehouselib.bsky.social printer in residence Becca Drake ran some excellent sessions today. Bridging Caxton, Chaucer, contemporary poetry, and hand-press printing @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social
Hanging out with @ies-sas.bsky.social and @bibsoc.bsky.social at Firsts today. Celebrating all things bookish. #BookHistory
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...
A wonderful evening celebrating these brilliant people and their brilliant publications! Congratulations Christopher, Angéline, and Michael!
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It’s day two of London International Palaeography School @ies-sas.bsky.social 📚✍️✏️
