Exhibition review:
Agnes Gehbald paints in her review an impressive picture of the art-science exhibition «Naming Natures - Natural History and Colonial Legacy», currently on display in Neuchâtel: www.infoclio.ch/de/node/1901...

Our Special Issue "Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900" in the journal Comparativ, co-edited by @agnesgehbald.bsky.social, Philipp Horn and me is online! With a coda by @sfahrenthold.bsky.social : www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/vie...

This Friday on port cities as points of passage! See more in the programme: www.hist.unibe.ch/e11168/e5169... With @agnesgehbald.bsky.social

1. Professorin: 1909 war die Philosophin Anna Tumarkin an der Universität Bern weltweit die erste Frau, die zur Professorin ernannt wurde.
#unibern Festakt heute Abend und Ausstellungseröffnung zu ihrem 150. Geburtstag
www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...

Long time in the making, now finally out.
DM if you do not have access!

About the scandal surrounding Tadeo López’ claim in 1813 to have invented type casting. Offers a unique insight into the craft in late colonial Lima—major printing hub—during a historic moment of upheaval in the final decade of Spanish rule (illustration @jcblibrary.bsky.social).

New article:
“Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press”
#BookHistory #Printing
The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past.
dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...

So @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me will publish an article titled "Paper Regimes of the Publishing World: A Bird’s Eye View on the Materiality of Global Book History" in the journal Globalgeschichte / Global History, volume 3.2 (2025).

More news soon #GlobalBookHistory #GlobalHistory #Paperhistory

This volume proposes a new and radically inclusive approach to the study of the book by using gender as a tool of analysis. Exploring gender as a methodology rather than a subject in book history. Edited by
@ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst
brill.com/edcollbook/t...

New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

Neuerscheinung: Band 64 des Archivs für Sozialgeschichte #AfS mit dem Rahmenthema "Migration in der Moderne. Wege – Orte – Erfahrungen" ist nun erschienen. Die Einleitung von Friedrich Lenger ist hier abrufbar [PDF]: library.fes.de/pdf-f...

For those of you in and around Bern 🇨🇭, I am excited to announce my book launch on 27 February at 17:00 @histunibern. Do come and join our discussion!

first post – first book:
a NEW BOOK about books
 
A Colonial Book Market:
Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment
bit.ly/3NEXFbA
 
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#Globalbookhistory
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