First week in the archives in 2024 and this is my favourite finding. An encripted letter sent from the Medici Ambassador in Naples to Florence. #Archives #ambassadors #informationstudies

#twitterstorians the #cfp deadline is soon for Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern! I can reveal Dr Angela McShane’s exciting keynote: Song and Revolution: performance, communication and exchange in revolutionary Britain. Please do share! #EarlyModern #History

Our very own Dr Elise Watson is on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 10pm! Not to be missed!

✨CALL FOR PAPERS ✨ Deadline: 30th April 2024 📣Manuscript and Print: Exploring Early Modern Trade, Networks and Culture ✨ Keynote: Dr Hannah Jeans (Hannah Jeans) 🗓️ 26th July 2024 📍Treehouse, The University of York 📧 [email protected] Please share!

It's going to be a very interesting one!

Now that the paperwork is signed I can officially say that in September I will be back in St Andrews working with Arthur der Weduwen on the COMLAWEU project. Is going to be a fun and productive 3.5 years! Exciting times ahead!!

I had the pleasure of reading this when it was just a dissertation and then follow the progress until it became and excellent book. A thoughtful and extraordinaryly well researched journey through the history of alchemy in the last two centuries.

As someone who does (and teaches) bibliography, I care about whose labour is credited in the process of making and describing a book. We can use queer approaches to do this more accurately and inclusively, and you can read my piece in PBSA about it now! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Summer in Italy means working on the slides for the next Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 conference from my balcony to escape the heat. I have quite a few interesting print that I found in archives that I can't wait to show! #ustc #academiclife #ASF #printinarchive

And this panel comes to an end with Laura_Incollingo and Neopolitan broadsheets #USTC24

Back to the archive! It is always exciting to start research on something new! #archive #research #academiclife

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"!

Today I have a fun one! Libro de Imprimatur et reimprimatur from the Kingdom of Naples (1730-1770) #archives #bookhistory #History

Do you ever find something completely unrelated to your research that sparks the desire for a side quest? I am now extremely invested in the matrimonial woes of the Princess of Pallagorio. She is not wrong, nobody wants to live with their mother in law.

Come join us!

This issue includes articles from our very own Dr Elise Watson , Zachary Brookman (he/him) and Dr Jessica G. Purdy!

Oh yeah, my book is out and we are having a symposium to celebrate! Come around if you fancy a day filled with amazing papers on Popular print, Politics and Communication in Early Modern Europe.

There are just under two weeks before the deadline passes for proposals for our Government Print conference: comlaweu.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/ Come join us in St Andrews on 20-21 May 2025!

Our Inaugural Lecture Showcase takes place this coming Wednesday, with Professors James T Palmer, @mediaevalrevolt, Kate Ferris and Timothy Greenwood. This event is open to the public and all are welcome!

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…