📢New release! The latest edition of the ERC Magazine is all about countries that historically perform poorly in ERC grant competitions. How can we improve this situation? We've gathered opinions and suggestions from experts and grantees 👉 erc.europa.eu/erc-magazine

"I discovered so much helpful information about writing up a grant. Some of the unwritten rules, the whole evaluation process, and about the team composition and how to hire." Jasenka Gudelj, on her ERC Visiting Fellowship with EMoBookTrade. More 👉 bit.ly/ERCWfellowship…

Researchers’ experiences with the ERC Visiting Fellowships | ERC europa.eu/!hhRrWp

Greeting from the Villa Vigoni. New developments coming soon. Stay tuned!

Portrait of Costanza Sforza of Santa Fiora Lavinia Fontana, 1594. (Uppsala Auktionskammare, 14 June 2016, lot 11)

Fab end to #dh2023 for me: catching up with Julianne Nyhan and getting my hands on a copy of her new book on Father Busa’s female punchcard operators! 😻 Can’t wait to read it! routledge.com/Hidden-and-Dev…

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

The books remain… AS Byatt, Booker-winning novelist, dies at 87 thetimes.co.uk/article/3ccdc5…

A surprise arrival in the MEDIUM ÆVUM editorial office. Congratulations, Sara Charles. I wonder who could review this...

Book historical job alert! My brilliant collegues Rozanne Versendaal and Natalia Petrovskaia are looking for a PhD candidate in the project ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Annual Colloquium - May 10 This year, our colloquium will be on the law. Organised by Prof. Laura Gowing and Dr. Jonathan Powell (Leiden University). We'll have a dizzying array of scholars speaking on early modern law. 10 May, 10:30 to 18:00 at KCL. eventbrite.co.uk/e/law-and-the-…

4 Apr 1527: Abraham Ortelius #map-maker b. #otd in Antwerp

Thinking of presenting at #RSA2025? Interested in testaments+inventories+women in #earlymodern world? CFP: "Testaments and Inventories: Conductors of Women's Agency and Power." Send us your abstract by July 22. Full details: rsa.org/forms/FormResp… #RenTwitter

After the success of Print in Archives, looking forward to the next annual St Andrews Book History Conference, 19-21 June 2025. Delighted that we'll be addressing "Newspapers and Periodicals"!

The AAUP has signed onto American Historical Association statement condemning the recent order from Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters requiring Oklahoma schools to incorporate the Bible as an instructional support into the curriculum.  historians.org/news/aha-state…

First monograph about the greatest publisher in Italian!

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/tit…