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I’m an aging adult working as a librarian in a world that doesn’t value reading. The struggle is real. Arnold and Ethel are the loves of my life.
Beatriz Galindo Professor at University of Alcalá. Book Historian & #Dante Scholar | Medieval & Early Modern Nerd. Co-Founder & Managing Editor of 'Bibliotheca Dantesca.'
#bookhistory #marginalia #rarebooks #italian #libraries #Mediterranean #popbooks
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Rare Book #Librarian, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-ed/pub Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME out now. Coming April 26: THE FIREARM REVOLUTION.
English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News.
W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak.
Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USC’s.
Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
FSA
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com
Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies
Medievalist and Digital Humanist at @leedsims.bsky.social doing @manuscriptsetc.bsky.social. Co-founder of @kismetpress.bsky.social. Director of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Was at KU Libraries (KS, USA) & Arnamagnæan Insitute (Denmark). nkyavuz.com
Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature, Utrecht University. History of books, religion, Bibles. 15th/16th century. Feminist. She/her. Dr. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RAHoff
Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
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#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
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Independent Scholar/Medieval Francophonie & Italian Historiographies. http://digitalhumanitiesddp.com, http://tcf.lauramorreale.com, http://dalme.org.
Founded 102 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
"When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." - Desiderius Erasmus
Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram
Universidad de Valladolid ¤ Late medieval & early modern cultural exchanges ¤ Anglo-Spanish ¤ books and libraries ¤ manuscript and print culture ¤ book use and annotation ¤ Early modern English Catholics ¤ Material texts
Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses | @wolfhumanities.bsky.social & @futuresed.bsky.social fellow.
Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian
❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
Historian of early modern European ideas and culture, researching (Greek) early printed books; co-ordinator of #HorizonEurope #GrECI project http://greci-twinning.org #bookhistory #classicalreception #skystorians
Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
Serena Professor of Italian, University of Manchester, FRHistS; Trustee, Cooperative Heritage Trust; Hon. President, Societa Dante Alighieri Manchester; Director, British School at Rome 2017-21.
Of that of which we cannot speak
Assoc. Prof. of EM history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and team member at @vedph.bsky.social | Posts on Renaissance Florence, Digital & Public History, and beyond |
Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (Codex Machina podcast, Strange Land Books). Luddite. Artist with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History. Loves periodicals. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
I'm here mostly for watching #Svengoolie on Saturday night
Podcasts:
Going Over Our Freds @goofpodcast.bsky.social
Murderland Chicago: A Deep Dish of Death @deepdishofdeath.bsky.social
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
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Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
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Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
lse.ac.uk/library
One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
We’re the national library of the UK.
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
No, we're not just bibles.
News and notes from the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
No matter who you are, where you’re from, or where you want to go, at Queens Public Library, we speak your language.
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Albany Public Library educates, entertains, and empowers the Albany, NY community.
RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world. #RLUK26 #RLUKICIL #RLUKDSF #RLUKSPACE #RLUKRSP #librariesXresearch
We’ve got everything, and the books! Anyone can use our libraries, whatever your age. We've 11 libraries across the city that provide a fantastic range of activities https://www.hulllibraries.co.uk/
Library service in North Lanarkshire. News, events and of course books.
Archives & Special Collections and Pathology Museum at City St George's, University of London. Custodians of Jenner's cow Blossom
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Representing librarians, archivists, curators, and conservators as well as professional staff at Boston Public Library.
https://www.bplpsa.org
The best public library in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (and maybe the world).
A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Das Portal für Deutschlands digitalisiertes Kulturerbe. 50+ Millionen Einträge: www.ddb.de
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