PhD candidate @standrewshist | Research Assistant @universalstc | co-convenor @SAEarlyModern | Printing, bookselling, and libraries in 17th c. Swiss Confederacy

Joined February 2021
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TONIGHT - IN PERSON OR ON TEAMS! Be there or be ๐ŸŸฆ
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!
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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!
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In our latest blog, @elisewatson_ dives into the fascinating world of sister printers: ustc.ac.uk/news/sorority-befโ€ฆ #herbook
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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!
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There's still time to apply to our workshop! Deadline for proposals TOMORROW
**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!
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We have recently introduced a new subject category, โ€˜Multilingual Booksโ€™, tagged to every record which has more than one language identification. At present we have over 38,000 such records. #USTCUpdates
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ONE WEEK TO GET YOUR PROPOSALS IN! Can't wait to hear about your work! @SAEarlyModern @StAndrewsHist
**CFP EXTENDED** You now have until the **30 AUGUST** to get your proposals in to us!
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**CFP EXTENDED** You now have until the **30 AUGUST** to get your proposals in to us!
**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!
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EXTENSION - STILL TIME TO GET YOUR PROPOSALS IN!
**CFP EXTENDED** You now have until the **30 AUGUST** to get your proposals in to us!
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Now that the news is public, Iโ€™m absurdly excited to share that Iโ€™ve 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/newsโ€ฆ
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JUST UNDER 2 WEEKS TO GET YOUR PROPOSALS IN! In-person AND online presentations welcome! Open to PGs in history and related disciplines!
Thrilled to share our #callforpapers for next semester's St Andrews Early Modern Workshop! HYBRID, open to PG students of all levels, in #history and related disciplines, working on anything #EarlyModern - Deadline is 16 August! @StAndrewsHist @BasilBowdler @ZBrookman #cfp
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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!
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Looking forward to getting started! Proposals due next month!!! ๐Ÿ“ข @StAndrewsHist
๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ Just over a month to get your proposals in!! ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ Just over a month to get your proposals in!! ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ
Thrilled to share our #callforpapers for next semester's St Andrews Early Modern Workshop! HYBRID, open to PG students of all levels, in #history and related disciplines, working on anything #EarlyModern - Deadline is 16 August! @StAndrewsHist @BasilBowdler @ZBrookman #cfp
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๐Ÿ“ข CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON!๐Ÿ“ข 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
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๐Ÿ“ข START SPREADING THE NEWS ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธThrilled to be co-organising next yearโ€™s @universalstc conference on all things print and periodicals in the early modern era. #cfp below! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ“ข CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON!๐Ÿ“ข 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
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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!
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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
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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 ๐Ÿงฎ๐Ÿ‘‡ First up, Benjamin Franklin (1706โ€“90), best known as an author, inventor and Founding Father of the US. 1/7
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29 Apr 2024
Check out my latest blog!
In our latest blog, @m_zukovs examines a fascinating calendar from the French Revolution: ustc.ac.uk/news/rationalisinโ€ฆ
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