Dr Jacob Baxter

I passed my viva yesterday!! Thank you to Jacqueline Rose and @JosephHone_ for a fantastic discussion, to my supervisors @APettegree and @A_der_Weduwen for their flawless support throughout, and to all of you for your help along the way!

‘Postcards, Translators and Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative History of International Communication’ by Guilherme Fians, @BernhardStruck and Claire Taylor is out now in #OpenAccess! You can read it here: doi.org/10.63674/wujq4….

One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing: open.substack.com/pub/oliverlewi… #18C

PhD Candidate @BasilBowdler has recently had an article published in History Today! You can read it here: historytoday.com/archive/histor…

On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, ten lords a-leaping! Up next on our 12 days of Christmas, is ‘A catalogue of the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, bishops, barons, that sit in this Parliament’ (USTC 3021312), chosen by @ernestjeb (1/2)

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven swans a-swimming. Up next in the USTC’s 12 Days of Christmas is ‘The orders lawes and ancient customes of swanns’ (USTC 3015937), chosen by our Deputy Director, @ernestjeb: ustc.ac.uk/editions/30159… #Swans

Good luck to all of our students who are taking exams over the next two weeks! Here is a Modern History exam from 1911, courtesy of our friends at the University Library. How do you think you would have got on? #revision #examseason #exams

After reading week, we are back at it with another brilliant set of seminars this week!

Do come along if you can!

Brigid Ehrmantraut, who recently joined the School of History, has a brilliant new book out! ‘Classical Myth in Medieval Ireland’ explores why Irish authors were interested in the history and mythology of the ancient Mediterranean. (1/2)

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-as…

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam, @BewareCat and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Are you truly at a man disadvantage if you have Noah Sadiki playing for you?

No. 1 in the UK for History! The School of History at the University of St Andrews has been ranked No. 1 in the UK in The Guardian University Guide 2026! (1/3)

🗓️ Remember to submit your proposal by next Friday 26 September!

Well it is about time they actually recognised the greatest river in the north east.

Looks like a great conference, co-organised by @AFSimpson1745!

Ellen Robertson, a Book History MLitt student @StAndrewsHist, has written on her fascinating research on a book of metrical psalms with extensive manuscript annotations held in the Special Collections @uniofstandrews! …rsity-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/19/ste…

How best to organize one's book collection? According to Humfrey Wanley, famed librarian to the earl of Oxford, formerly of @bodleianlibs: "Books of a Bigness [should] be sett together, without respect of Faculty, Art or Language" #twitterstorians #BookShelf

Big book history questions in the excellent finale of @RATW_official #RaceAcrossTheWorld

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF: bit.ly/4lZz80R