CMT Cambridge

New termcard is here! Claire Connolly (@EnglishUCC) on frieze coats & Irish Romanticism; Sarah Haggarty (@englishunicam) on the folded letter as chronotope; Yan Che (@Princeton) on virtue & value in Sense & Sensibility. All welcome! @EngFac18thC @BSECS @BARS_PGs @18thcentury_cam

V. old graffiti from the Villa Farnesina in Rome.

New blog post to announce the cataloguing of prints collected by the Ferrar family of Little Gidding: magdlibs.com/2024/08/13/lit… #camlibs #speccolls

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for "Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture", a colloquium at the University of Edinburgh, 19th-20th October 2024. Do share widely - we look forward to welcoming you to Esther Inglis' Edinburgh! ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…

Applications to become a CDH Methods Fellow are open! Come along to our information session next month to find out how you could contribute to an interdisciplinary programme that attracts over 500 participants across the university each year. Register ⬇️ buff.ly/3WyxdF7

We're advertising a one-year postdoc to work with me and the Print Matters team. If you're into embodiment and text technologies (any period) and keen to turn your hand to letterpress printing, please apply! Feel free to be in touch with questions. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

A Hollyhock, an example of ‘nature printing’ from original plant specimens. From Johann Hieronymus Kniphof’s ‘Botanica in originali seu herbarium vivum’ (1757-64). S370.a.75.1-4 @theUL

Nice acquisition @theULSpecColl: 3 works on the Norfolk mystic Jane Lead printed Amsterdam 1703-5. Bound in red velvet on 10 Aug 1822 according to a note inside; silk pastedowns embossed with Bible verses & initials M.A.P. The only copies of all 3 titles in UK. @theUL 7000.e.522.

We are delighted to announce the opening of our new exhibition 'Her booke': Early Modern Women and their Books at Lambeth Palace Library! Admission is FREE and we welcome you to browse the exhibition during our opening hours or attend one of our events. lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/he…

UPDATE: MILTON'S HOLINSHED among the 100s of annotations—many of them by john milton—in @PhxLibrary's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES is this (left)—god blotted out. in a new post, @jes1003 offers context for whether this could be milton's doing: english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=6253

#graffiti news theguardian.com/culture/articl…

Just over a week to apply for this post—please send the link to anyone you think might be interested!

So looking forward to the @UoYEnglish Patrides Lecture later today--@JenniferRichar7, on 'Thomas Nashe, women, and gender slippage'. Bowland auditorium, 6 PM. york.ac.uk/crems/events/2…