Join us next Monday, 28 October as we hear from @lperona4_ and @gaume_benoit about power and politics in early modern France, Spain, and the Netherlands! DM for link or join us in person!
Come one, come all to our second session of the semester, all about WOMEN, POWER, and everything in between. Featuring @A_Booth_0599 and our very own Zina Gharakhani. Monday, 14 October - In person or on Teams. Not to be missed!
MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY - Join us in person (Old Seminar Room, 71 South St) or on Teams (DM for link!) for our FIRST session of the term! St Martin de Porres and Philipp Melanchthon - Name a more ICONIC duo!
**CFP EXTENDED**
We have decided to extend the deadline for proposals for Martinmas Semester.
You now have until **FRIDAY 30 AUGUST** to get your proposals in!
We have recently introduced a new subject category, โMultilingual Booksโ, tagged to every record which has more than one language identification. At present we have over 38,000 such records. #USTCUpdates
**CFP EXTENDED**
We have decided to extend the deadline for proposals for Martinmas Semester.
You now have until **FRIDAY 30 AUGUST** to get your proposals in!
Now that the news is public, Iโm absurdly excited to share that Iโve been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Postdoctoral Fellowship at @EdinburghUni for a transnational project on collaborations between women at all levels of the early modern book trade!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/newsโฆ
Beyond thrilled to have my FIRST EVER article published, and in Library & Information History no less! Come for the illustrated donors' register, stay for the pie charts and bar graphs!
S/o to @books_borrowing for putting on such an excellent conference and making this possible!
๐ข CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON!๐ข
Thank you to all of you who came to 'Print in Archives'! We are delighted to announce the #CfP for our next conference 'Newspapers and Periodicals', co-organised by @ZBrookman, @APettegree and @A_der_Weduwen #USTC25
๐ข START SPREADING THE NEWS ๐๏ธThrilled to be co-organising next yearโs @universalstc conference on all things print and periodicals in the early modern era. #cfp below! ๐๐
๐ข CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON!๐ข
Thank you to all of you who came to 'Print in Archives'! We are delighted to announce the #CfP for our next conference 'Newspapers and Periodicals', co-organised by @ZBrookman, @APettegree and @A_der_Weduwen #USTC25
Chapter writing, and I find this image from The spiritvall conquest in five treatises (1651, USTC 3065879) really compelling, but I'm not sure who these people are meant to be--if they're even real people at all! If anyone has any leads, I would appreciate hearing of them!
We're excited to announce the launch of Scilicet, a blog dedicated to the history of knowledge, run by @GuyFassler, @Natalie_M_Smith and @james_afox. You can find out more about us here scilicet.org.uk/about
In celebration of #NationalNumeracyDay, a quick thread of 18th-century figures who struggled with numeracy at school, but went on to lead rich numerical lives ๐งฎ๐
First up, Benjamin Franklin (1706โ90), best known as an author, inventor and Founding Father of the US.
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