Anna-Lujz Gilbert

#earlymodern has anyone come across copies of Quarles poems in manuscript miscellanies? Nothing on CELM

A different context, and I may have remembered incorrectly, but I think the town accounts for Crediton in England c. 1700 feature the signatures of the vicar/assistant vicar in entries for the payment of their salaries. I don't know how far back that would have gone

I've spent a lot of time with Lantrow and a single article can't do justice to the richness of his writings for researching reading, writing, and religion in this context—I'm hopeful that it will bring some more attention to them in the future.

‘Writen by a holy violence’: Divine Inspiration in the Eighteenth-Century Marginalia and Sermons of Christopher Lantrow Abstract. This article presents a remarkable set of writings inscribed by parochial clergyman and Cambridge college fellow Christopher Lantrow into the mar

I have an article out on the unusual writings of an early-eighteenth-century Anglican curate of Devon, Christopher Lantrow, who thought himself inspired by God to write political sermons in the margins of a parish library book.

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Portrait of a Lady, by Catharina van Hemessen c. 1528–after 1587. She is the earliest known female #Flemish painter whose work can be clearly verified as hers. This picture was painted c.1548/49. (The Bowes Museum)

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.

0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

William Bedwell and his World: In Conversation With the Curators William Bedwell and his World: In Conversation with Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown, and the curators of the exhibition about Bedwell

I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...

WORKSHOP: A Friendly Introduction to Palaeography!

🔎 Explore 14th century medical + culinary recipes
🔎 Based exclusively on records in our Archives
🔎 Learn about Middle English
🔎 No practical experience required

15 April | 2pm-4:30pm

Book your tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Photo looking up at cherry blossom against blue sky with clouds

STRANGE NEVVES of FIERY BALL over Exceter &c.

Detail of printed music showing printed folio number '108'

Detail of printed music showing printed folio number '109'

Detail of printed music showing printed folio number '1010'

One hundred and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred and ... ten?

Ottaviano Petrucci's Canti C. N° cento Cinquanta (1503), from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, viewer.onb.ac.at/100450FC

Been down some rabbit holes about BUCKRAM today. Earlu modern theatre people -- were 'buckram men' used as props on the stage? (literalising Falstaff's 'men in buckram'?) Military history people -- were dummy straw men, perhaps lined with buckram, used for target practice in the 16th century?

#skystorians A rare permanent job at Warwick - Assistant Prof in Early Modern British History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO295/a...

Detail of early 16th century printed book with manuscript flourish around signature mark in red and yellow.

Detail of early 16th century printed book with poorly executed manuscript flourish around signature mark in red.

the vision | the execution

(both from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 53.C.26, viewer.onb.ac.at/107A6269/ )

Also, anyone can respond: you do not have to hold British citizenship to respond.

Reminder: today is the last day to respond to the UK government consultation to the cruel changes to immigration rules being proposed. Can take just 20 mins.

I really recommend using Amnesty's guide to the survey because the survey is designed to catch you out
media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads?

My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.

Strong memories of, as a PhD student, standing up to give a talk on the history of Newton St Cyres to members of the Newton St Cyres history group and realising that I did not, in fact, know how to pronounce Cyres.

Preparing for a local history talk next week, which means furiously looking up and drilling the pronunciation of half a dozen words. (Alas, a method that only works if you know what it is you don't know.)

Selling Education in England, 1650–1715* Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Two men on stage playing guitars, one sings into a microphone.

'What a brilliant night! Wills: dry, formal, boring? This was story telling at its best: intriguing, engaging, human!’

In this new blog post, find out what happened when Chris Hoban and his band, The Executors, played to a packed house in Topsham

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social this exceptionally rare Tudor map of Kingsbridge in Devon has been acquired for public research at the Devon Heritage Centre, after more than four centuries in private hands.

Thank you!

Just started a (mat cover) postdoc on the DORMEME project with Elisabeth Giselbrecht at KCL! Highly relieved to be clinging on to academia for a little while longer, and even more happy to be doing so on such a fab project

Gosh I have not missed buggy university HR portals. On the plus side, nice to be back in a university HR system :)

Fascinated by the implication of not being able to visualise a past that existed before living memory. This rendering of a 14th-century Scottish interior is giving early twentieth-century, vintage vibes.

James II gets cancelled, Chichester cathedral

Any good critical writing on the relationship between bibliography and genealogy?