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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Jul 8

Kicking off our #TudorAntwerp conference with a keynote lecture of renowned book historian @apettegree.bsky.social! No better start for our #earlymodern #bookhistory conference in this wonderful historical setting 💙📚📜

A chapel with an altar on which a screen placed and Andrew Pettegree speaking to a group of conference participants with his lecture “Bookselling in Early Modern Europe”

Panoramic view of the room of the lecture: the Grauwzusters Chapel filled with people

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Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social · May 10

Some fabulous discoveries here from the National Library in Edinburgh.

Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · May 9

#HabemusPapam

Read all about the early modern conclave and papal election process in this post about rare surviving printed sheets from seventeenth-century conclaves.

Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · May 7

CONCLAVE! 🗝️

As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave

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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · Mar 28

Greetings @cathfletcher.bsky.social and @apettegree.bsky.social
I've been traveling in New Zealand and I thought you might be happy to hear that not only are your new books on sale here, they are next to each other in the shop's front window at Scorpio books in Christchurch.

The display window at a bookstore. Written on the window is the phrase "...is a home of invention" Books displayed include "The Roads to Roam" and "The Book at War."

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · Apr 9

We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Feb 24

In this order: USTC, KVV, followed by VD16-18. Good luck

Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · Feb 24

What are your pro tips for locating quickly the physical copy of a rare book when worldcat has you in an EEBO loop? Trying to get permissions on reproducing an image. The only hard copy I definitely know of is in BL & this edn doesn’t appear to be listed again in their catalogue.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jan 26

With so many new followers, I guess it's time for an updated #introduction: Hi there! I am an #earlymodern historian with a weak spot for all things communication and media. My next book is about news flows. Here is a photo of me sitting silent next to books. Most used #: #bookhistory 🗃️ #skystorians

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · Jan 23

A tour of our stand at the Stuttgart book fair.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jan 23

When you printed a glorious knight late at night in 1489, and woke up to notice that you forgot the lance ...

#earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading

A page from the incunable "Der f°uszpfadt tz°u der ewigen seligkeyt/ diß Büchlein genant ist", from 1489 Heidelberg [GW 10429]. An armed knight sits on a horse. The missing lance has been drwan into the print by a later owner or user of the book.
Source: http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/fusspfad1494/0057

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Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg 🔻 @svenschlijper.bsky.social · Jan 21

Timely —- @apettegree.bsky.social

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Scilicet - History of Knowledge @scilicetblog.bsky.social · Dec 21

Scilicet's own @jamesafox.bsky.social has published an article in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social - check it out here

Meilan Solly @meilansolly.bsky.social · Dec 19

Excited to have the newly minted postdoc @jamesafox.bsky.social make a guest appearance in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social today! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...

After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook

A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible"

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · Jan 11

What an incredible and productive week we have had at the @gladlib.bsky.social ! Loads of annotations achieved, a huge chunk of Introduction drafted. Still loads to do mind, but very happy already about the achievements of the ’eldest daughters editing club’.

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Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social · Jan 9

Absolutely.

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Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thanks for the great starter pack!

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jan 9

My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social!

#OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

Screenshot of an article: 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England'. Abstract: 'This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions submitted to the magistrates across fifteen jurisdictions with “sessions of the peace” in England, with nearly 1,000 dating from before 1640. Over the course of the early seventeenth century many, if not most, English parishes witnessed attempts to persuade the authorities through collective petitioning. Groups of neighbors across the kingdom formulated their grievances, organized subscription lists, and articulated their own role in the polity as “the inhabitants” or “the parishioners” of a particular community. In so doing, they not only directly shaped their own “little commonwealths” but also unintentionally helped to develop habits of political mobilization in a crucial period of English history.'

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jan 9

Coffee, anyone?

The year is 1761 and this boy is carefully serving coffee to the workers in an #earlymodern print shop.

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A detail from an etching of 1761 showing a boy serving coffee. The full image is titled "Der Buchdrucker".
Source: http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=j-w-meil-ab3-0040

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Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social · Jan 9

Sinclair Lewis's brilliant book, published in 1935, imagines what happens when the United States drops FDR in favour of a populist. Well worth a read in these troubled times.

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