📌Thursday 19 May 5pm UK time don’t miss this seminar hosted by the History of Printed Images Network (#HoPIN ) ⁦University of Wolverhampton⁩. I will discuss the shift of illustrated #broadsides (pennyprints & co.) from popular print to edutainment. Booking required!👇 cphc.org.uk/events/2022/2/…

Next week is @SharpAmsterdam! If you are interested in ‘The transnational dimensions of cheap print for children’ do join us Wed 13 at 2 pm!🗓 We will discuss illustrated broadsides, almanacs for children and cheap print for children beyond Europe

EXTRA! EXTRA! Get your abstracts in by July 31 and be hot off the press for Broadside Extra: News, songs & provocations in the history of cheap #print & street literature. One-day conference at @WeAreTUublin October 15 2022 Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann itma EFDSS criticalmedialiteracy.org

📢 #twitterhistorians of education! Do check out this interesting CFP for the 19th Symposium of School Museums and Collections of Educational History, happening in Berlin next June. #histed Dan Morris

Students once learned to read using hornbooks: wooden board + alphabet + protective screen made from animal horn. That’s right, animal horn.

📌 Check out the programme of this conference on book publishing in Spain, with many presentations devoted to cheap print. Starting *now*, remote attendance possible! #Ephemera

📆 In just one week we will be back with an international symposium on ‘Children and Cheap Print. Towards a new state of knowledge?’. Do join us English at Newcastle or remotely! Programme 👇 studistorici.unimi.it/extfiles/unimi… Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives

Afternoon session of the Children and cheap print workshop English at Newcastle Evelyne Verheggen on Educational print as a catechetical tool for children in the Northern Dutch Republic from the 17th century onwards

Two interesting postdoc positions in children’s history! Still one day to apply for an exciting job, and with a brilliant supervisor!!! Children's History Society👇

Ever spotted a book with the stamp of the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville ("Colombina Biblioteca")? It s from Hernando Colon’s library, now dispersed. See below for a research project aiming to locate the items from this collection. Perhaps you can help! #bookhistory

Cheap print for children beyond the European focus in this interesting article. Strikingly the illustration is tremendously similar to woodcuts usually printed in chapbooks and primers in English-speaking countries 👇

Interesting thread and takes on Harlequinades👇

A new conference on a classic of cheap print, the so-called ‘Bibliothèque bleue’! Do have a look if you are interested in re-use, editing, publishing choices. #bookhistory #ephemera