History of Libraries
@histlibraries
History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by @IES_London @ihr_history @CILIP_lihg @Warburg_News
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https://ies.sas.ac.uk/history-libraries-seminar 02-09-2015 20:50:25
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Jill Dye
@jilld17
📚Head of Reader Services at NLS 📖Journal Co-Editor @CILIP_LIHG 🧾Hon. Treasurer @CILIPRareBooks 📓Libraries, singing, theatre & food
Sussex Library
@sussexlibrary
We deliver high-quality, innovative information services at The University of Sussex Library. Answering your tweets 9am to 5pm, Monday-Friday.
Isabel Holowaty
@iholowaty
Deputy Head of Humanities Libraries & History Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. Views my own. Remainer. @iholowaty.bsky.social @HFLOxford
Beinecke Library
@beineckelibrary
"An inspiration to all who enter" @Yale @Yalelibrary :: visit to engage the past in the present for the future. Home of @WindhamCampbell Prizes
Bernard Quaritch Ltd
@quaritch
Rare books & manuscripts since 1847. We are no longer active on X; find us on Instagram/Bluesky/Facebook/LinkedIn/in person/by email/by phone/online.
Courtney Block
@courtneymblock
Librarian. Researcher. Author. 📚 “Researching the Paranormal,” 2020 “Encyclopedia of Parapsychology,” 2022.
Ken Gibb
@ken_gibb
Rare books librarian.
Dr Julia King
@julialilinoe
Rare Books Librarian @lampallib, into intersectional feminism, medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, coffee, and cats. She/her, views my own.
📚Bibliophile Vicki📜
@bibliophilevic
#Etymology #LanguageFamilies |In-Education |💖: BookS +🍫+🎼+🖼 #studyingHistory| Note-Page| Media #Perceptions| Observing society. Laughter &🥗 also medicinal
Bodleian Libraries
@bodleianlibs
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Visit | Read | Explore
Allie Alvis (only on 🦋 now)
@book_historia
Pink-haired book historian, medieval manuscript liker. Curator of Special Collections @winterthurmuse. She/they. Views my own. book-historia on B’sky
Blackwell's Rare Books
@blackwellrare
Blackwell's Rare Books buys and sells rare books of all kinds, since 1879. Purveyor of #badlydrawnanimals. Follow us on Instagram: bit.ly/2mp2T0t
Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (she/her)
@nkivilcimyavuz
Medievalist and Digital Humanist at Leeds doing @manuscriptsetc; co-founder of @kismet_press; director of @digitalmedieval; was at @kulibraries & @arnamagnaean.
Philippa Tudor
@tudorfp
20thc. musicians & wives, Gustav, Isobel & Imogen Holst & Vally Lasker. Church history, mostly Tudors & #Huguenots. #GustavHolst150 + #LouiseHansonDyer
Jonathan 🎄
@pseudojonathan
Detached but present; rare but classical.
National Fairground and Circus Archive
@fairarchives
Archives covering the history of fairgrounds, circus and allied entertainments including magic & variety performers. [email protected] @speccollshef
Sophie Coulombeau
@smcoulombeau
Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Novelist. Broadcaster. General Editor @BurneyJournal. READING WITH THE BURNEYS out now @CUP_LitPerform
Marsh's Library
@marshslibrary
Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars. Registered Charity RCN 20000752
NAG - National Acquisitions Group
@uklibrariesnag
We are no longer active on Twitter - please find us on BlueSky or LinkedIn or join our free mailing list for updates: uklibrariesnag.bsky.social
William Whyte
@william_whyte
Historian @StJohnsOx and @OxfordHistory. Chair @OxfordPresTrust @VCHOxfordshire & Blue Plaques Panel @EnglishHeritage; Hon Canon @ChChCathedralOx
Guildhall Library
@guildhalllib
The original Library at Guildhall was founded in the 1420s. Today, it is a major public reference library which specialises in the history of London.
Biblioteca CTPCBA
@biblioctpcba
Nos especializamos en recursos bibliográficos relacionados a traducción, interpretación, lingüística y gramática en diversos idiomas.
Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
No longer using this account. Find me on BlueSky (liamsims) or Instagram (antiquarianliam). Rare Books Specialist @theUL | Fellow @SocAntiquaries
WSchool Library 🌈
@wschoollibrary
Westminster School Library, London Subscribe to our newsletter! eepurl.com/iKAj6c
Tamara Atkin
@tamarajatkin
I tweet mostly about old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections
@speccollshef
Special Collections, rare books and archives held at University of Sheffield's Library. [email protected] @fairarchives @UniSheffieldLib @sheffielduni
A. J. Wright
@ajwright31
Author of non-fiction on Alabama history, medical history; & poetry. Husband of Dianne, father of Becca & Amos. At UAB 1983-2015.
LambethPalaceLibrary
@lampallib
Tweets from Lambeth Palace Library and Archive. Founded in 1610, it is one of England’s oldest public libraries with a wealth of material.
BALH
@balhnews
The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Robert Stagg
@robert_stagg
Asst Professor of English Literature + Director of New Variorum Shakespeare @TAMU /// Follow @NVS_TAMU for NVS news and events
Emmanuelle Chapron
@echapron
Professeur d'histoire moderne, AMU, EPHE. Histoire du livre, des bibliothèques, de l'enfance.
Steven Van Impe 📚 PhD
@rarebooklibantw
Book historian, rare books curator @ehcantwerp. Opinions mine. He/him. Same handle on the mammutida site, svanimpe on the azure firmament. Profile pic: LUCID.
Harriet Rix
@rix_harriet
Biochem, History of Science and 2021/22 Emerging writer @TheLondonLib. Formerly Iraq, Turkey, and @TheTreeCouncil. Represented by @doujohyou @pew_literary
MayDay Rooms
@maydayrooms
Educational and organising space for social movements / archive of radical culture and histories
Jacqueline Thalmann
@jmthalmann
Art Historian and Curator at Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford @ChChGallery; views my own
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@mssprovenance
I'M NOW ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON MASTODON. I just come here occasionally to dump on Musk
John McCafferty
@jdmccafferty
Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.
Jeonghun Choi
@agathosbios
PhDing @Harvard. History of modern Japan & Korea. Book history. Intellectual history. History of knowledge and ignorance
Natale Vacalebre
@phdnatale
Beatriz Galindo Professor @UAHes Med/EMod Scholar. Managing Editor @BibDant #BookHistory #Dante #Mediterranean #GlobalStudies #DH. He/Him.
The Arnamagnæan Institute
@arnamagnaean
The Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection @uni_copenhagen.
BL Printed Heritage Collections
@blprintheritage
Western printed heritage collections @BritishLibrary “showing how to make a glorious Light with a candle like the Sun-shine” (bio pic woodcut: shelfmark 1036c6)
Fabrizio Baldassarri
@fabriziobaldas6
Int.Historian-16&17c philosophy🧠(Descartes), 🌿botany🔬and⚕medicine/former MSCA at Ca' Foscari/Indiana U Bloomington/ Warburg&iTatti fellow 24/25 HarvardU
Lucy Sixsmith
@lucysixsmith
Writing about book history and evangelicalism lucysixsmith.wordpress.com
Dr Mark Purcell
@camlibresearch
Director, Research & Collections, Cambridge University Library. Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College. Proctor. AIL Panel. Country House Library (2017). Private views.
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society Museum
@sg_soc
From its beginnings in 1710 as a local learned society, it now cares for a large library, archive & museum. Visitors & researchers welcome, details on website.
St John's College Library, Oxford
@stjohnsoxlib
Supporting studies & research at Oxford's St John's College since 1555.
Luca Tonetti
@lucatonetti
Historian of science and medicine. Assistant Professor (RTDa) at the University of Padua.
Dr Jacob Baxter
@ernestjeb
Deputy Director @universalstc. Historian @univofstandrews. Interested in early modern statesmen, readers and copyright. @SunderlandAFC supporter.
Arthur der Weduwen
@a_der_weduwen
Dutch writer & historian | Lecturer @univofstandrews | Co-Director @universalstc | PI COMLAWEU Project (2024-2028) | Now writing: The Dutch Armada
Seb Marshall
@sebamarshall
Leverhulme ECR Fellow, University of St Andrews | interested in landscape, classicism and Orientalism in 19th c. British visual culture
Pompidou Research
@pompidoursearch
Official account of research @CentrePompidou Curated by Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris #ArtHistory #ArtStudies #Library #Archive #Research
Book Owners Online
@bookowners
BOO is an expanding directory of historical book owners, initiated by David Pearson, published by @livesandletters & shaped by its users. Tweets by Mhairi.
Michelle Michel
@earlymodernphd
Stanley Ray Scholar and PhD student studying the Early Modern book trade focusing on printer/publisher John Danter @ShakesInstitute, University of Birmingham
Libraries in Leeds
@libs_in_leeds
A network that incorporates the libraries and archives based in the city of Leeds, working together to deliver a unique range of services
Nel M. Betancur
@nelbetancur_
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture • 17th and 18th century studies • assistant professor • mountain lover #nelbetancur
Reading the Room
@_readingtheroom
Reading the Room is a John Fell funded collaborative at University of Oxford running from June 2024– May 2025.
Dr Isobel C MacDonald
@ise_macdonald
Research Fellow, UCL, The Sloane Lab | @SocHistColl Trustee & Chair UK Events Committee | @burrellcollect @UofGArts PhD | views my own | she/her
Richard Calis
@richardcalis
historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor @UniUtrecht | JRF @trincollcam | PhD @Princeton | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
Neil MacInnes OBE
@macinnes_neil
Mancwegian ❤️ Libraries, Archives, Galleries & Culture in MCR - views expressed, typos, spelling mistakes are my own #LoveMcR 🏳️🌈 #LoveGlw 🏴
Debbie Rolls
@rolls_debbie
Author of Everyone Welcome: Remembering and Celebrating Libraries Freelance writer: Travel, Art. History, Food and Culture [email protected]
Nora Epstein, PhD
@noraepstein
❧ Instruction & Outreach Librarian @NewberryLibrary ❧ PhD @StAndrewsHist / @UniversalSTC ❧ MLIS @iSchoolUI ❧ all opinions my own ❧ she/her
Dr Jill Whitelock
@jillwhitelock
Head of Special Collections @theUL | Co-Chair @CamGLAMresearch | Fellow @SocAntiquaries | Lapsed medievalist | Wildflowers, hoverflies | All opinions my own
Joe Saunders
@joe_saunders1
Historian | part-time PhD English print trade c.1600-50 📚 Vice-Chair @BALHNews 🗺 Freelance research 🌳 Tutor @PharosTutors 🎓 Co-Editor @Howto_History 📜
Charlotte Gauthier
@faraiunvers
Historian of religious conflict and nationhood @RHULhistory. England + Christendom, 15-17th c European diplomacy, the crusades & Reformation. Also on bsky.
Jessica Gardner
@camunilibrarian
Cambridge University Librarian and Director of Library Services. Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Emeritus Chair of RLUK. She/Her.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt
@drkarrschmidt
Curator, Rare Books + Ms, Pop-Ups, Fabric Prints, Public Humanities, Pirates She/Her Not here? Find me on IG/Tiktok (Ladydisdaine) or Bl**sky (DrKarrSchmidt)
Houssem E. Chachia حسام الدين شاشية
@chachiae
Assoc. Prof. (HDR) in Early Modern History (Univ. of Tunis). Specialist in #Morisco History. Winner of the 2024 #SZBA. مختص في التاريخ الموريسكي
Dr Alison Ray
@liber_ray
Archivist @lincolllib and Support Officer for Academic Engagement @bodleianlibs 📖 Medievalist @mems_ukc (she/her)
Cambridge UL Special Collections
@theulspeccoll
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more.