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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 5d

📰 Happy Friday! Don't have plans for the weekend? Why not spend some time checking out our new look?!

That's right - the SHARP News website has gone through some exciting changes.

👉 sharpweb.org/sharpnews/

SHARP News – An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 7d

Last day to apply!

#BookHistory #Bibliography

SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️⌛ Deadline fast approaching!

Don't forget to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer!

👉 DEADLINE: October 01 2025. 👈

Full posting details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers.

The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer.

Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

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Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · 11d

*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19

Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · Apr 7

guys come for the book trades yawning, stay for the sex-gender system critique, THE NOVEL AND THE BLANK forthcoming august 2025 from big ups publisher @hopkinspress.bsky.social

page proof prose from *the novel and the blank: a literary history of the book trades in eighteenth-century british america*

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 9d

Dear #earlymodern, #bookhistory, #rarebooks, and #skystorians people: I’m travelling to Lisbon in a few days!

What do you recommend? Libraries, historic spots, bookshops, exhibitions? 📜

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 9d

#bookhistory

Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 9d

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers

As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people.

Applications due October 1 2025.

The full call for applications and how to apply:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers – SHARP NEWS

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️⌛ Deadline fast approaching!

Don't forget to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer!

👉 DEADLINE: October 01 2025. 👈

Full posting details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Dr. Liz Fischer @lizfischer0.bsky.social · 10d

Last call (for now!) before I set a schedule! If you'd like to join a monthly (or twice-monthly?) meet up of independent scholars & non-faculty researchers, please fill out this when2meet! www.when2meet.com?32480075-LPIAv
#humanities #bookhistory #medievalsky #dh

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 15d

#bookhistory

Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 15d

People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

The People of Print

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print

www.cambridge.org

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 19d

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

The Aldine edition of Lucian of Samosata (1503), annotated by the printer Robert Estienne (1503-1559) and his son, Henri Estienne (1528-1598)

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 19d

#BookHistory

Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 19d

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 20d

Please do talk to me if you have questions about the role!
#BookHistory

SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 20d

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!

Apply by October 01 2025.

See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 20d

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!

Apply by October 01 2025.

See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 20d

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!

Apply by October 01 2025.

See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

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Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social · 23d

There’s still time to submit your #bookhistory #bookstudies proposals!

Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Call for Contributors!

@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals!

Deadline: 30 September 2025

More info here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

Call for Contributors: Routledge Companion to Book Studies

Call for ContributorsThe Routledge Companion to Book StudiesEdited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Call for Contributors!

@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals!

Deadline: 30 September 2025

More info here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

Call for Contributors: Routledge Companion to Book Studies

Call for ContributorsThe Routledge Companion to Book StudiesEdited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

ies.sas.ac.uk

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 23d

If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...

Forms & Function

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Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · 27d

📢 21st Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social
📜Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market
📅31 October-02 November 2025, @unimainz.bsky.social
🌐Attendance in-person or online is free
#Tolkien #bookstudies 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bookhistory #booksky

Tolkiens Werk auf dem Buchmarkt
Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market

Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e. V./German Tolkien Society
in Kooperation mit dem/in co-operation with
Department of Book Studies/Abteilung für Buchwissenschaft
(Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) und Walking Tree Publishers
31. Oktober - 02. November 2025

Vorläufiges Programm/Provisional Programme

Freitag, 31. Oktober 2025

15.00 Registration opens
16.00 Eröffnung/Opening

16.15 Allan Turner (p): Tolkien and his Publishers
17.00 Jonathan Nauman (p): Tolkien and the Unwins – Creation and Commercial Negotiation

Abendessen im Mali&Milo (Große Bleiche 29; Voranmeldung erforderlich bis zum 24. Oktober bei tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de /Dinner at Mali&Milo (Große Bleiche 29; please register till 24 October with tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de)

Samstag, 01. November 2025

09.30 Norbert Schürer (p): Advertising Tolkien in Newspapers and Magazines
10.15 Ralf Tornow: Tolkien – Ein Blick in den verlegerischen Maschinenraum

11.00 Pause/Break

11.15 Robin Auer: A Book of Both Worlds – The Lord of the Rings and the Primary World Experience of Secondary Worlds

12.00 Mittagspause/Lunch Break

14.15 Magdalena Mączyńska (p): Reading Arda and its Inhabitants – Tolkien’s Book of Stories

15:00 Pause/Break

15.45 Filip R. Zahariev (p): Tolkien on the Tabletop Role-Playing Game Market: Free League’s The One Ring™ (2021) Adaptation
16.30 Annika Röttinger & Tobias Eckrich (p): Zwischen Fußnote und Fandom: Der Podcast Tolkiens Briefe als kommentierte Werkausgabe für die Ohren
17.30 Präsentation neuer Veröffentlichungen und Verleihung des Ehrendoktortitels

Abendessen im Wirtshaus Zenz (Bahnhofsplatz 4; Voranmeldung erforderlich bis zum 24. Oktober bei tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de )/Dinner at Wirtshaus Zenz (Bahnhofsplatz 4; please register till 24 October with tolkienseminar25@uni-mainz.de)

Sonntag, 02. November 2025

9.30 Sonja Virta (v): Different ways of revising Finnish Tolkien translations: the case of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion in Finnish
10.15 Marius Wagner (v): Das Warten auf einen Klassiker: Die Deutschen Übersetzungen von Tolkiens Der (kleine) Hobbit

11.00 Pause/Break

11.30 Schlußdiskussion/Final Discussion

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · Sep 1

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship.

Apply before Oct. 1st!

Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Fellowship Programme | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · Sep 1

Apply to for a fellowship to research #BookHistory at my two favourite libraries in the entire world! They are walking distance apart and you can have frietjes for lunch.

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · Sep 1

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship.

Apply before Oct. 1st!

Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Fellowship Programme | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

consciencebibliotheek.be

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · Sep 3

I wish I could apply!

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · Sep 4

maybe some #bookhistory folx might know?

Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · Sep 4

Daft question for the #skyhistorians but if a person had been to jail or had a disqualifing characteristic (mental health/non commonwealth citizen) in the mid 20C and they weren't on the electrol rolls, where would you find them? Is there any reading on this at all? I am guessing rent books

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cecilecottenet.bsky.social @cecilecottenet.bsky.social · Sep 8

18-19 September. Very much looking forward to hosting a workshop on Literary agents and circulation of texts: research perspectives, organized with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and Anna Ferrando (U. of Pavia) in Aix-en-Provence.
@lerma.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr
#BookHistory
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 28

hey #bookhistory #earlymodern folks - am looking for anything i can read on the circulation of title pages as advertisements for books ahead of their publication? am particularly interested in english context - ty!

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Aug 28

#BookHistory #Bibliography