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π¨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18β20 June 2026.
π Further details here: ustc.ac.uk/conference
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Application deadline: 12 December 2025
#CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians
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Catch up on our work here at the USTC in our newest Library Quarterly!
ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-libraryβ¦
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Hello down there!
In the wake of the Artemis II Mission to the moon join Sarah JS Parker, PhD candidate in medieval history, as she examines the Sphere of Sacrobosco and early modern interest in outer space!
Read it here: ustc.ac.uk/news/the-cosmos-iβ¦
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Learn more about maritime printed ordinances from the Hanseatic League!
New blog 'Law on the High Seas' by Arthur der Weduwen, our co-director and head of the COMLAWEU project
Read it here: ustc.ac.uk/news/law-on-the-hβ¦
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Check out our newest blog by Cloé Boucon, a PhD student in book history at the Univeristy Lumière Lyon 2 Lab: Centre Gabriel Naudé, in which she explores genizah, or ritual deposits of damaged sacred texts, and their connection to the book trade!
Read more at the link in our bio
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Check out our latest blog by Catherine Statchen, an undergraduate research intern for the COMLAWEU, in which she explores how broadsheet ordinances in Lyon helped managed the city!
Read it here: ustc.ac.uk/news/managing-a-mβ¦
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Read all about the latest and greatest the USTC has been up to in our Library Quarterly!
Read it here: ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-libraryβ¦
If you'd like to receive it directly reach out to Jacob Baxter, our Deputy Director.
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Our newest blog, by Ph.D. candidate Sukwoo Choi, surveys the presence of early modern books in Southern Korean libraries. Truly a wonderful addition to the USTC! Read more here: ustc.ac.uk/news/early-modernβ¦
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On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, twelve drummers drumming!
The final book in our twelve days of Christmas series, selected by Research Assistant Chloe Akers-Brewer, is βThe Famous Woman-Drummerβ (USTC 3069632)
ustc.ac.uk/editions/3089075
#12DaysofChristmas
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On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eleven pipers piping!
Our penultimate book from our twelve days of Christmas series, chosen by PhD Student Adyan Sharda, is βDicks loyalty to his true love Nancy: or, a famous weddingβ (USTC 3089075). (1/2)
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This ballad features an account of the βpipersβ that played at this βfamous weddingβ.
ustc.ac.uk/editions/3089075
#Pipers #Music #12DaysofChristmas (2/2)
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On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, ten lords a-leaping!
Up next on our 12 days of Christmas, is βA catalogue of the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, bishops, barons, that sit in this Parliamentβ (USTC 3021312), chosen by @ernestjeb (1/2)
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On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, nine ladies dancing.
Courtesy of Research Assistant and PhD Student Chloe Akers-Brewer, our next book in the USTC 12 Days of Christmas is βMascherata di ninfe di Sennaβ (USTC 4021655). (1/2)
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This is a Florentine pamphlet commemorating a ball danced for an elite wedding, where there were probably more than nine ladies dancing!
ustc.ac.uk/editions/4021655
#12DaysofChristmas #Dancing #BookHistory (2/2)
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On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eight maids a-milking.
The next book in our 12 Days of Christmas series is βThe milke-maids lifeβ (USTC 3017206), chosen by PhD student Mhairi Winfield: ustc.ac.uk/editions/3017206
EBBA 30170, British Library β Roxburghe.
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On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven swans a-swimming.
Up next in the USTCβs 12 Days of Christmas is βThe orders lawes and ancient customes of swannsβ (USTC 3015937), chosen by our Deputy Director, @ernestjeb: ustc.ac.uk/editions/3015937
#Swans
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On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me six geese-a-layin.
Our sixth book is from Zachary Brookman, PhD candidate and research assistant, entitled 'Von der zwiefΓ€ltigen Gans und den sechsfΓΌssigen Ferkeln zu Gugenheim' (USTC 743685). #twelvedaysofchristmas
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On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me FIVE GOLDEN RINGS! Our fifth books comes from Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, and is ''sWerelts begin, midden, eynde beslooten in den trou-ring' (USTC 1827719). #twelvedaysofchristmas
ustc.ac.uk/editions/1827719
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Seventeenth-Century Catalogs and their insights into the Dutch Republic's social state of religion is what Aurora de Thomasson, undergraduate history student, explores in our latest blog. You can read it here:
ustc.ac.uk/news/bibliotheca-β¦
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On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four calling birds.
Our fourth book from Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, is 'In dit boexken leertmen hoemen sal vogelen ende visschen vanghen metten handen' (USTC 422217). #twelvedaysofchristmas
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