'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians
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We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians
I was particularly struck by Henry VIII's careful drawings of birds and manicules in this book. he was clearly a prince with time on his hands... 🗃️
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I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope.
It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...
This article is extraordinarily insightful, and also some of the most unrelentingly bleak stuff I have read in quite a while www.jstor.org/stable/27077... (about anglo-American printers advertising & brokering the sale of enslaved people)
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Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham
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I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
You can read all about it in the latest issue of the Library: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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JORDAN E. TAYLOR, Enquire of the Printer, Early American Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer 2020), pp. 287-323
This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
It's almost time!!! We have less than a week before our Book History Conference. Lots of great panels are planned!
If you'd like to join online please contact the organizers, Chloe Akers-Brewers or James Fox.
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Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
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