Haven Hawley
@ehhawley.bsky.social
Special collections, printing, history of technology and books. Opinions my own on social media. (ehh_ptr "elsewhere")
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Haven Hawley
@ehhawley.bsky.social
· Oct 9
And since 2000 is to have up-to-date scholarly work. Though I like the Victorian source. Not legal history -- apparently has read already in that area.
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Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...
Velde Visiting Scholar Program – Rare Book and Manuscript Library – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...
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Here we go!
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
2800 'Shiny Happy People' (R.E.M.) singing at Pub Choir
YouTube video by Pub Choir
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here we go!
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
Thousands of shiny, happy, people holding hands and singing their heads off in Melbourne. 🎉😀🦘
#PubChoir #Melbourne #Rem #Music #Singing #ShinyHappyPeople
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcy...
I am seeking book recommendations for everyday life of women in colonial and early republic US, esp. if published since 2000. Suggestions?
October 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I am seeking book recommendations for everyday life of women in colonial and early republic US, esp. if published since 2000. Suggestions?
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For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.
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Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
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Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories."
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26
The Bibliographical Society of America
The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.
bibsocamer.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories."
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26
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Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
Deleting Academia@ account. Kept it far too long just because it provided access to many international scholars, but the new TOS are ... a lot.
September 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Deleting Academia@ account. Kept it far too long just because it provided access to many international scholars, but the new TOS are ... a lot.
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#newacquisition an uncut 1873 issue of The National Police Gazette, showing the absolute huge size of the paper stock. #bookhistory #flashpress
September 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#newacquisition an uncut 1873 issue of The National Police Gazette, showing the absolute huge size of the paper stock. #bookhistory #flashpress
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
September 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Delighted that this popped up in my mailbox today! Congrats @sarahebull.bsky.social !
September 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Delighted that this popped up in my mailbox today! Congrats @sarahebull.bsky.social !
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@wehere.bsky.social are starting to publish paper books!
We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).
I can’t wait. 📜📚
www.weherepress.org
We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).
I can’t wait. 📜📚
www.weherepress.org
We Here Press
www.weherepress.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
@wehere.bsky.social are starting to publish paper books!
We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).
I can’t wait. 📜📚
www.weherepress.org
We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).
I can’t wait. 📜📚
www.weherepress.org
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Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.
August 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.
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Do you want to help public radio after their loss of funding? Just use this website to find and donate.
I’m a proud donor to @kcrw.com in Los Angeles.
adoptastation.org
I’m a proud donor to @kcrw.com in Los Angeles.
adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
adoptastation.org
August 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Do you want to help public radio after their loss of funding? Just use this website to find and donate.
I’m a proud donor to @kcrw.com in Los Angeles.
adoptastation.org
I’m a proud donor to @kcrw.com in Los Angeles.
adoptastation.org
sounds great!
Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...
July 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
sounds great!
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James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...
American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use
By James A. Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians have sin…
ageofrevolutions.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...
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Back in Feb, @ryancordell.org shared this incredible woodcut from @skeuomorphpress.org collection. He shared the original illustrator file for all! I was so inspired by this woodcut, I wanted to clean it up and redistribute it to the public 🧵 1/2
#printsky #academicsky #typophile
#printsky #academicsky #typophile
May 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Back in Feb, @ryancordell.org shared this incredible woodcut from @skeuomorphpress.org collection. He shared the original illustrator file for all! I was so inspired by this woodcut, I wanted to clean it up and redistribute it to the public 🧵 1/2
#printsky #academicsky #typophile
#printsky #academicsky #typophile
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It's here, it's here!
Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's here, it's here!
Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
That's right, the only thing to do is to make chocolate-covered bugles. And eat them.
April 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
That's right, the only thing to do is to make chocolate-covered bugles. And eat them.
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“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story.”
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
April 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story.”
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
I was honored with an AAS-NEH Fellowship in the year. The National Endowment for the Humanities has been critical support for scholars and the American Antiquarian Society. Loss of grants and fellowships will impoverish our understanding of the past.
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was honored with an AAS-NEH Fellowship in the year. The National Endowment for the Humanities has been critical support for scholars and the American Antiquarian Society. Loss of grants and fellowships will impoverish our understanding of the past.
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PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.
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Fabulous: Chopstick Sleeves as art
This Just In: Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture
Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.
letterformarchive.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Fabulous: Chopstick Sleeves as art
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Letters Illuminate the Life of a Female Printer Who Published Revolutionary Texts and Pushed the Colonies Toward Independence
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Newly Discovered Letters Illuminate the Life of a Female Printer Who Published Revolutionary Texts and Pushed the Colonies Toward Independence
As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent politicians like Thomas Jefferson
www.smithsonianmag.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Letters Illuminate the Life of a Female Printer Who Published Revolutionary Texts and Pushed the Colonies Toward Independence
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...