I'm pleased to say that I'll be attending London Rare Book School in June to take David Pearson's class on Provenance in Books. If you know me on here and you're attending LRBS in week one, it'd be great to hear from you!

Rainy Saturday + May the 4th meant there was really only one choice of activity today.

Today on the blog: a wonderful new post by Beth DeBold on a copy of Katherine Philips's Poems, a favorite among early modern women readers, given to Maria Waller by Frederick Cavendish buff.ly/3Ux7L1Q #HerBook Sarah Lindenbaum @whitemicheline @tarallyons Mark Empey

Save the dates, 9-10 July, carol pilkington and Print Networks conference 'Unfinished Business: Progress, Stasis and New Directions in the study of the Book Trade' Newcastle University. A great line up of speakers: cphc.org.uk/events/2024/7/…

Today in eighteenth-century place names, Ned Ward attests to visiting a brothel in Moorfields 'by the sign of the Church-Warden and Bastard'

Today was the department of English's postgraduate conference which I both helped to convene and presented at. I spoke on the sale of erotic books second hand in the eighteenth century. Below are the title pages of all the books depicted in The Compleat Auctioneer.

Our latest blog post is now up!! Read Matt Ryan's brilliant to piece to find out all about how covert printers managed to stay one step ahead of the government in Elizabethan England! earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2024/06/07/hid…

it’s so lonely being the only one who knows the correct amount of reading to assign students and the correct amount of sociology to apply to literature

From today for the next month I'll be in Boston spending some time at the Houghton. I've never been to Boston before and I'll be based in Somerville. Where should I eat/drink/go visit while I'm here? Would love to hear your recommendations!

Planning a housewarming in October means its time to revisit my comfort Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Emp…

Excellent bibliographical skills workshop at Newcastle next month, organised by The Bibliographical Society !

I'm teaching a session on the study of paper for this (which may or may not be a selling point). The learned line-up of Joseph Hone , Dr Liam Sims and Melanie Wood for a whole day should be a sufficient draw for most of you!

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook* Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan thinicepress.org/research/call-…