Dr Helen Williams

Each year, Liverpool University Press offers a free issue of each journal. This year's free Shandean is volume 32 (2021), featuring philosophy, translation, travel, double entendre, the provincial book trade, and Whig politics, & gorgeous images.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/shandean...

We're in paperback! And we have a discount code!

*Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture*

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195425/

Last Chance: Pandemic Artefacts

We've extended the deadline for our call for objects to 30 Jan. Our project features items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories.

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Our President's Prize is awarded to the best paper delivered by a #PGR at #BSECS2026. Nominate papers electronically (see the QR code in your programme) or do it the old fashioned way by handing over your handwritten form at the registration desk.
Deadline Sunday 11 January at MIDNIGHT #skystorians

LOOK!
My conference paper and my location are in perfect synch!
#BSECS2026 #foodhist #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Typography papers 10 – Typography & Graphic Communication The articles in this tenth volume of Typography papers were first essayed at ‘Rencontres musicologiques de Valenciennes: “Le livre de musique au pochoir: techniques, répertoires, ateliers”’, a…

Reviewers sought for Journal of the Printing Historical Society:

📚 Achille Davy-Rigaux and Eric Kindel, eds., Stencilled Music Books in France, 1669–1841 [open access special issue]
📚 Richard Ardagh, Type Archived [book]

ECRs and printers welcome!

*The Shandean* top-read articles in December:
The amazing Amelia Dale got a Christmas number one!
The top three are open access and you can read more at:
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For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind.

@agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory

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Type Archived A publishing platform for books on visual culture

We have a copy of Richard Ardagh's beautiful *Type Archived* book to review for the *Journal of the Printing Historical Society*. Who's gonna snap it up? I'm sore tempted myself...

vol.co/collections/...

Drawing. A dragon in a landscape, which, according to the Italian inscription, lived in the swamps outside Rome on December 1, 1691. On the left a bridge over a river.

Recently, we at @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social had a visit from @ostfoldmuseene.bsky.social to look at the dragon we are keeping in our collection. Yes, we have A REAL DRAGON BONE IN OUR COLLECTION! #museumlife

Brought to mind this wonderful book (and talk) from Anthony Grafton (@scaliger.bsky.social) as well; one for #bookhistory folks and #skystorians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUC...

Type Archived A publishing platform for books on visual culture

We have a copy of Richard Ardagh's beautiful *Type Archived* book to review for the *Journal of the Printing Historical Society*. Who's gonna snap it up? I'm sore tempted myself...

vol.co/collections/...

Vacancies - BSECS Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*:

1. Postgraduate Representative
2. Communications Officer

Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life!

More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

Call for Objects: Pandemic Artefacts

We would like to feature items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

Elizabeth Nutt’s Network: Prisoners of the Persian Libel — Virtual Museum of Printing Helen Williams, Northumbria University   Elizabeth Nutt née Carr (1666?-1746) ran one of the most important wholesale businesses of the early eighteenth-century book trade. For three decades, her…

I wrote about the 1728 arrest of Elizabeth Nutt and her accomplices for a libellous issue of *Mist's Journal*. The list of prisoners tells us
📘 even housekeepers, servants, and maids were suspected
📗 female networks were key to the opposition press
www.vmop.org.uk/blog/elizabe...
#bookhistory

The theme is “periphery and identity” and will be held June 30 and July 1st 2026 — which I note runs up against Playful Learning Association’s meeting (on “adult learning”) 1-3 July.

Vacancies - BSECS Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*:

1. Postgraduate Representative
2. Communications Officer

Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life!

More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

*The Journal of the Printing Historical Society* is looking for book reviewers! Latest offering linked here but let us know if you'd like to be approached for others, or if you have a book to be reviewed.

www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/...

#bookreviews

Excited for the forum tomorrow - everyone welcome!

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The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It provides a comprehensive study of ways in which heritage…

*The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice* is out now, featuring our essay on pandemic arts at Shandy Hall and Abbotsford:
'Creative Programming in the Literary Heritage Sector amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic'.
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
#Pandemic #LiteraryHeritage #Museums

Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!

Bluestockings in the Shandean 😍

Contents | The Shandean 35, Forty-three previously unpublished letters from the novelist Sarah Scott and Lady Barbara Montagu to George Aust, a civil servant who benefited from their generosity and mentorship, are introduced, transcribed, and annotated. The letters expand Scott’s ...

New issue of The Shandean journal! Featuring articles on Sterne, Fielding, and an edition of Sarah Scott's correspondence. Many thanks to the editorial board, Drs Newbould, Dale, Lipski & Hobday.
@livunipress.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

The (partial) return of Bodleian Ballads - bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Courtyard garden of the Plantin-Moretus printing museum, featuring cobbled walkways between box planting and surrounded by early modern architecture.

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trades - a very special conference in the most amazing printing/historic house museum, The Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp ❤️

For those visiting Antwerp (esp. those of you attending for the Women&Household in Book Trade conference next week) do not forget to go and visit this library gem as well! #bookhistory

Courtyard of an early modern house, the Maiden’s house with brick walls and cheerful lights hanging up

What a day! Had a great time hearing all these specialists talk about the self-evident involvement of women in the book production. Now time for dinner at the most beautiful location at the Samenloop restaurant housed in the former Maiden’s House of Antwerp!

‘Women’s traces of involvement in the #earlymodern book trade are there in the archives, just sitting there waiting to be reconnected with research.’

- Opening keynote lecture of Susan Broomhall perfectly capturing the essence of our conference Women & The Household in the Early Modern Book Trade!

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you!