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@elisewatson_ @DrKLMcKeogh Bravo Elise!

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…

First monograph about the greatest publisher in Italian!

@plantinmoretus @RenEmMil1 Congrats to our own Renaud Milazzo!

New publication alert!🔔 @RenEmMil1 has published this seminal book on the mechanisms that regulated the functioning of the 16th-century #OfficinaPlantiniana of Christophe Plantin. Available in Open Access here: francoangeli.it/Libro?id=29593 #bookhistory #twitterstorians

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

The AAUP has signed onto @AHAhistorians 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…

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

A surprise arrival in the @Medium_Aevum editorial office. Congratulations, @sarajcharles. I wonder who could review this...

Annual Colloquium - May 10 This year, our colloquium will be on the law. Organised by Prof. @LauraGowing and Dr. Jonathan Powell (@UniLeidenNews). 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-…

Book historical job alert! My brilliant collegues @Melusigne 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…

And here the ToC:

📯#bookhistory alert We're happy to announce that our volume *Competition in the European Book Market: Prices and privileges* is out. Here is a little sneaky peek. It's #OpenAccess & you can download it here: bibliofielen.be/en/webshop/ #economichistory

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

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:

Fab end to #dh2023 for me: catching up with @juliannenyhan 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…

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

Greeting from the @Villa_Vigoni. New developments coming soon. Stay tuned!

"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

📢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