Is there a German word for the joy of unexpectedly finding a trove of new archival evidence and simultaneously the dread of having to somehow account for it in an already overflowing article you’d ‘finished’ doing the primary research for?

A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle

It makes me think of Andrew Stauffer's work on the at-risk book traces to be found in university circulating collections. And also opportunities for teaching using the circulating collections, rather than (or as well as!) special collections

I love Muller's note here, saying that she only wrote a simple gift dedication because she was aware that the book might be seen by others, indeed hoped it would be. She signs off as "your friend in ever living sympathy". There's so much going on here for books, sociability, and nature of evidence.

Procrastinating (never!) by browsing books in the library. Here’s a copy of Lewis Morris’s The Epic of Hades that was gifted in 1901 by Marie Muller to Ernest Newlandsmith, who would quote from it in The Temple of Art (1904). Then gifted to the Exeter University library by a Mrs W Wordsworth.

‘Tis the season for getting home and finding one’s pockets mysteriously full of perfect conkers

It sounds more plausible to me, but I am very much floundering (especially as it's 18th century)! I wondered about marriage as a) he should already have a preaching license by this point b) elsewhere, he talks about wanting to marry. But would love to know if the mention of college = preaching.

Can anyone help me with an eighteenth century history question? If a clergyman writes c. 1730 that they do not have money for a license from their parish or college (they're a Fellow), what kind of license would this be? Marriage?

Cambridge student Ambrose Bonwicke, writing to his father about a prospective room mate in 1711: “He ... is genteel enough in his dialect, being neither a northern nor western lad, out of which two quarters bad dialects usually come”

Turns out not being able to access your dms because of not having done the age verification thing doesn’t stop anyone else from messaging you.

I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

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What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.

#earlymodern #skystorians

Good question! My sense is that (small-medium) provincial libraries are underrepresented in research in general but especially in data?—but I think testing against qualitative findings would be really helpful, and for other questions too

(on which note do let me know if you had any thoughts!)

Oh thank you! I’m still at the stage of working out what these datasets can (and can’t) do, and it’s helpful to test ideas out at a conference!

Thank you to @juliannesimpson.bsky.social and @ellenwerner.bsky.social for the wonderful tour and book display!

Day two of conference two this week, and I’m happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chetham’s

*blushes* Thank you Sam, you are too kind! (and a brilliant conference organiser, I have learnt!!)

Day two of the Built With Books conference @livesandletters.bsky.social ! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England

The walk through Hyde Park isn’t a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube

My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the “best and most useful books for each faculty and science” in his public library for Dublin. @marshslibrary.bsky.social #BuiltWithBooks
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴‍☠️

The classic case of going into a draft specifically to cut words and somehow ending up with a net gain of several hundred words.

We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...

Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH

Author copies arrived today! 😍🥳
#dh #bookhistory #medievalsky