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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 12d

Want to learn more about what a bibliographical approach might be for working with hand-press books? Come think with me about how to notice, ask questions, and maybe even discover new things about the material features of old books! 📜📚 #BookHistory

Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 12d

We're accepting applications for our fall online course, A Bibliographical Introduction to the Hand-Press Period. The course, taught by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, runs Sundays, 10/19-12/14. Application deadline is Fri 10/10. More at rarebookschool.org/fall-online-course-thinking-bibliographically

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · Aug 7

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm.

10.00
Introduction and welcome

10.30-12.00
Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706

Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640

Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-14.30
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts

Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow

Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book

14.30-15.00
Coffee

15.00-16.00
Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla

Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined?

16.00-17.00
Round table
Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh)
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway)

17.00
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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition!

Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Any early modern Protestantism people know anything about the preacher William Holbrook? He preached at Paul's Cross in 1609 and a couple of his sermons (that one, published as Love's Complaint; one to the Blacksmiths and one at St Botolph's without Aldersgate) made it into print.

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Aug 29

Looking forward to it 👍

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Aug 29

What will the Trade and Travel one be coming out in? Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland? Looks v. Interesting

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Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · Aug 26

Although how a 17th century noblewoman shelved her books shouldn't have any bearing on how an individual chooses to arrange their personal library, it IS satisfying to see all the anti-shelving-by-colour snobs have to eat this

Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)

Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · Aug 8

The new Scottish Literary Review is out on Project Muse! A Special Issue, guest edited by Gioia Angeletti and Marina Dossena, it features articles on Early Modern ScotLit, Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Picturebooks, migration writings and drama. You can access it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

The yellow cover for the journal, Scottish Literary Review. It features a black and white line drawing of a stylised thistle growing from the open pages of a book.

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Aug 7

Bon appetit

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Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social · Jul 28

Very exciting to see @physiciansgallery.bsky.social's The People's Dispensary published online! I loved working on this project a few years ago — sometimes I can still see Dr Andrew Duncan's handwriting when I close my eyes...

www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

The People's Dispensary

www.rcpe.ac.uk

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is so niche I can't believe I am asking, but does anyone know anyone who might be an expert in Protestantism in Italy during the Reformation? (Stranger things have happened). RTs welcome.

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is brilliant 👏

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Spotted this week @queenslibcam.bsky.social

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Jun 23

When You Love Something, Hide It Underwater?

Ireland’s Oldest Book Shrine, Found Buried in a Lake, Reemerges share.google/SwLDzqhgDTMd...

Ireland's Oldest Book Shrine Makes Its Museum Debut | Artnet News

After a 39-year conservation process, the Lough Kinale Book Shrine is on view at the National Museum of Ireland.

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Jun 22

Lovely!

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Jun 22

I’ve seen reuse of plates for printing (I think that was common enough). I just hadn’t realised that copper was used (much?) as a painting support, so never thought about plates being reused for that. A nice thing to see

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Jun 22

Is this reuse of a plate that had been used for intaglio printing? Or is the engraved bit deliberate and related to the painting?

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Jun 22

Virgin of the Immaculate Copperplate?

This glowing 17th c. Spanish painting of the Virgin Mary on loan from the Hispanic Society of America to a wonderful Milwaukee Museum of Art exhibition is painted on one side and gloriously engraved on the other....

The verso with many saints engraved on a copper plate.

Painting of the Virgin Mary on a copper printing plate.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hurrah! My next book is instantiated, and in-the-world! Library Catalogues As Data: Research, Practice, Usage. Edited with Paul Gooding and @semames.bsky.social. Proud of this one! Official publication date soon… www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · Jun 21

Relief sculpture of the 19th Century temperance campaigner William Collins on Glasgow Green, to which someone has added the remains of a hand-rolled 'cigarette'.

Cont./

#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #statue #publicart #peoplemakeglasgow

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · Jun 18

#PrintedEphemera #BookHistory

Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · Jun 18

Having your dissertation done up into a painting surrounded by the angels of arts and sciences is really a baller move.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jun 15

*Confused historians of early modern medicine wake up to find themselves experts on current affairs*

NPR @npr.org · Jun 15

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

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Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social · Jun 15

You are very welcome! 🙏

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · Jun 15

A Tudor manuscript of a medieval poem collected by 18th antiquaries which ended up in a medieval university - a thrilling tale of medieval culture & its reception 😃

Thanks to @bobmaclean.bsky.social & the ASC team for facilitating 💫

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