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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · May 29

Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.

Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...

Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces

This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Hematopolitics @hematopolitics.bsky.social · May 27

REGISTRATION OPEN!

Registration is now open for our second symposium, 'The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion'.

Join us for a fantastic day of enriching talks, networking, plus a tour of our new exhibition 'Blood: Ties and Tensions'.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hematopoli...

Hematopolitics Symposium 2

The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies and Futures

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · May 29

Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.

Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...

Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces

This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · May 15

📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations! Great news!

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · May 22

New insights from the British Academy funded-researcher career-tracking report, conducted by @vitae-news.bsky.social highlight the long-term impact of early-career funding on researcher careers in the UK. Learn more: buff.ly/wx83rki

Pilot career tracking initiative offers evidence-based model for long-term research career development

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · May 12

ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜

English Short Title Catalogue

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · May 6

Is this something that people would be interested in if I looked into setting something up? I'm thinking an ECR/PGR interdisc medical humanities network with monthly WIP sessions for articles/books/chapters & a group chat to share opportunities etc. Please share with relevant ppl!

Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · May 6

Is there such a thing as a medical humanities ECR/PGR community or WIP network? does anyone know of any groups that come under this purview?

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · May 4

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝

Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!

🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Apr 27

A really great few days in Scotland catching up with friends and making new connections.
It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...

Image of a book case filled with 8 eighteenth-century books. 3 have just the spine displayed. 5 are open to show inscriptions in the hand of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Apr 24

Ah thanks Lucy! Will be lovely to see you if you do manage it 😊

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Apr 24

Today is the day! I'm thrilled to have been asked to present this year's annual Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading communities in historic house libraries.

If you are in Glasgow tonight at 5pm then please come along or join online from anywhere.

www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

2025 Dr Johanna Green Annual Lecture

Thursday 24 April 2025

www.gla.ac.uk

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thanks Josh!

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'll be in Glasgow this Thursday to present my research into readers in historic house libraries in Glasgow. Johanna's work inspired me to chose Glasgow for my masters in 2018 & I'm honoured to have been invited to give this lecture. In person & online:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

2025 Dr Johanna Green Annual Lecture

Thursday 24 April 2025

www.gla.ac.uk

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · Mar 11

We've found a book.

It's called Yorkshire, Past and Present and includes a history of the three ridings (soz South Yorkshire, this is 1870 you don't exist) and some magnificent prints of landmarks and equally stupendous facial hair.

Join us on a tour of God's Own County...

We are looking at the front of an elaborately embossed book with gold Coats of Arms of different cities of Yorkshire.

We are looking at a front page of book which says Yorkshire Past and Present: A history and a description of The Three Ridings of the Great County of York.

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Mar 7

Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

Full and Final Edition Now Available

News article - 24 February 2025

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Mar 6

Today is #WorldBookDay!

Join us as we go through @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social collection to discover what is lurking in their 13,708,007 books! 📚

A picture of the Bodleian library with a blue box over the top. The text in the box reads: The Bodleian Libraries has a whopping 13,708,007 books in their collection.

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our rare book collections are available for EVERYONE to use for research or enjoyment in our reading room!

With more than 50,000 books published between 1471 and 2024, we have something for everyone.

Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/books

#WorldBookDay #RareBooks #Library #Exeter

Shelf of small books in the Syon Abbey Library. Most have parchment bindings and hand-made modern orange labels created by the community of Syon Abbey.

Shelves of books in the Chris Brooks Collection. The books in this photograph were written for children and young adults in the 19th and early 20th century, and many of them have colourful and illustrated bindings.

Shelves of late 19th and 20th century books in the Hypatia Collection of books and journals by and about women. Many of the books have colourful or illustrated spines.

Several shelves of old and very large leather-bound books in the Dodderidge (Barnstaple) Parish Library. The books have raised bands or ridges along the spines, which were created during the binding process and show the structure of the cord-bound books.

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Mar 6

A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked

#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury

Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19

We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Feb 28

Hi!

We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.

Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!

SHARP NEWS – An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishingsearchexpand

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Feb 28

I'm delighted to share that I've been curating a digital exhibition, entitled '“It’s in our blood”: Identity, Blood Donation, and Transfusion', as part of my work with @hematopolitics.bsky.social. The first few pages are now live!

hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...

Digital Exhibition – Hematopolitics

hematopolitics.org

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Feb 23

Very late to this wonderful news but HUGE congratulations!

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Feb 19

Oh this is amazing. Need to find a way back to the wonderful Bar Convent!

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Jan 14

We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025.

Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.

Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Jan 13

As part of Reading the Room I've been running workshops with stakeholders on NT library collections - how to search them, how to respond to the needs of different audiences & stories they hold.

Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?

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