Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description!

This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion

#medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities

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Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work

A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...

Warm congratulations Liz!

Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory

Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).

This piece is worth reading/ wrestling with. imho.
1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

It’s a full house for @etreharne.bsky.social ‘s John Coffin Memorial Lecture on mortuary rolls @ies-sas.bsky.social

Resharing this job posting. There’s still time to apply! Come work with me. 📜📚

UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...

This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!

"In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites" the University of Chicago Library has launched has launched the "UChicago Data Mirror." For starters, it includes NPS and Census data. Good to see more stakeholders involved mirroring data. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/u...

🎉Almost 2000 views!

So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊).

The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790

"Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it in person" 📜 Iowa State University
isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/r...

Warmest congratulations!

This one: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Just in time for our #StanfordManuscriptSciences’ event on authenticity, @blalbritton.bsky.social!

This kid sure gets around… slowly ( Stanford, Codex 1417 T). A Book of Hours dated to 1526, belonging to Anna Maria, Countess of Fürstenberg.

Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?

Yey! Finally! This is worth checking out! Congratulations to the editors and the authors!
#digitalhumanities

Jonah making an appearance

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

Such cool work!

Welcome Ray! So good to see you on this platform.