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Do me a quick favor? 1. Got to settings 2. Go to accessibility 3. Please tick the box that requires you to add alt text before you can post images A lot of folks would really appreciate it & it's good writing practice 🙏

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We're welcoming Heleen Wyffels to the #LowCountries seminar this week! She'll talk about "Women, gender and social status in the #EarlyModern printing house" Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory 28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom all welcome, register for zoom www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

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HathiTrust on Bluesky! (Digitized content of hundreds of libraries, google books and internet archive made accessible and searchable)

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HathiTrust on Bluesky! (Digitized content of hundreds of libraries, google books and internet archive made accessible and searchable)

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So looking forward to going to Heidelberg and Stuttgart for a conference in July. Never been, and quite a novice in all things German. Hit me with recomm!

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Our university library is now on BlueSky! Give them a follow🦋🐦

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Somehow I'd never realized that the digitization of the Exeter Book includes raking light photographs of drypoint images in the margins! Overview here: theexeterbook.exeter.ac.uk/drypoint.html and you can click through to the manuscript viewer to zoom in. #medievalsky #manuscripts #oldenglish

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Monday mood. (Portrait of a Lady, Peter Borseller)

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Attention librarians, archivists, booksellers, and collectors: Are you looking to gain new skills in collection building, cataloging, and special collections leadership? Check out our summer 2025 courses on these topics! Apply by the first-round deadline of 17 February: rarebookschool.org/schedule/

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I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

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Great compilation in this article for my museum studies classes - and Simon Stephens is careful to underline that the commissioned artists have all been working on the subjects for years (pas une mode, mais un aboutissement!)

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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

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At the BNF, continuing my hunt for stains and colours in drawing and painting manuals - how hands-on was artistic teaching through books? what's the difference between a secret book and an "art of painting"? What in essence was a handbook... #manuals #bookhistory #18thcentury

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This is officially the most absurd time to post this but I just checked the website and look what’s up now!! Unimportant Clerks—about the NY school poets and the culture of bureaucracy—coming your way from @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/U/Unim...

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If you would like to see previous sessions, many of the talks given at History of Material Texts since 2020 can be found here: www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...

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There are now over 300,000 people around the world using Transkribus to unlock history, and building a wonderful community in the process 🫶

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Our edited collection is published Open Access by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 6 February! We have wonderful chapters exploring inherited objects and stories! We loved putting it together @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social

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First 4 days of February now officially longer than the long eighteenth century. #18thC

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Le laboratoire Echelles (ancien LARCA) est arrivé sur Bluesky - give it a follow! #CNRS #Empire #Post-Empire #histoire

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FRIDAY 31 JAN 5:30 GMT, Marieke Hendriksen on “Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the early modern Low Countries,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, online and in person at IHR room NB02. To attend/for Zoom link register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/food-...

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- overrule the legislature on spending issues - forced inane linguistic changes that just made people mad - fiasco against an Spanish-speaking country (coming soon) - deployed the military against his own people (coming soon) - fun zone™️ (coming soon) Welcome back King Charles I

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Bienvenue sur le compte officiel de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art ! 👉 Ici, vous pourrez suivre toutes nos actualités : la recherche, la bibliothèque et le festival de l'histoire de l'art. 🔗 inha.fr #INHA #histoiredelart

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Studying, researching or teaching histories of Britain or Ireland ? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today

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This exciting new art exhibition at Somerset House explores the iniquitous colonial salt tax. The artists, Hylozoic Desires, have drawn inspiration in part from my work on a powerful courtesan, Mayalee, who defied the British at Sambhar Salt Lake in the 1830s. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Berghain, Black Lodge ou BNF?

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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/t...

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Le Temps des médias arrive ici pour présenter l'actualité de la recherche en histoire des médias. Notre prochain numéro "Les travailleurs de l'information sous l'Ancien Régime" explorera la diversité des acteurs sociaux impliqués à cette époque dans l’activité d’informer. On en reparle bientôt !

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VideoLAN, a French creation helping us download youtube videos for our classes since 2005…

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Working on 15th C illustrated incunabula today. If anyone has come across any early printed books with coloured sketches in the margins, I'd love to see more! 📖🖌️🎨

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Le CREA rejoint Bluesky ! Les membres du Centre de Recherches Anglophones étudient le monde anglophone envisagé comme aire linguistique et culturelle et se penchent sur ses manifestations actuelles, son devenir et son histoire du XVIe au XXIe s. crea.parisnanterre.fr @uparisnanterre.bsky.social

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Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist

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Lillian Bartoletti (right) and Lucille Bugorelli (left) fill Little Blue Book orders in Kansas, 1924. digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/hjpc/190/

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Save the date! Rdv le 31 janvier prochain à Nanterre pour la JE « Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811-1914) », question au programme de l’agrégation d’anglais crea.parisnanterre.fr/colloques-et...

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Dress for the job you want, hilariously literal edition: I bought this skirt ~11 years ago knowing nothing of the pattern, and now I’m curator of a collection that holds a copy of Thornton’s “Temple of Flora” 😂🌸

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L'AFHMT rejoint BlueSky. L'histoire des mondes du travail, c'est par ici !

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Again, for sales catalogues of historical art market #c18 #c19 #provenance 👇

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🗃️ #C19th #Genealogy #LocalHistory A reminder that if you need an excel calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, I have one you can download and use freely. Please share… chartistancestors.blog/2023/07/12/n...

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This from @christophersmith.bsky.social will (like the blog-post immediately before it) be of interest for @kawulf.bsky.social , @alanlester.bsky.social , @sathnam.bsky.social , @nevillemorley.bsky.social and others. Good to see the inherently collaborative nature of historical research recognised.

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I’d forgotten how surreal the light is in Provence … Arles amphitheater radiating warmth in December!

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It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

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The 1792 Philosopher Prince by Olympe de Gouges is on Opus online plateform - for the first time published with scholarly editorial apparatus (intro, notes, etc..) 👇 univ Paris Cité

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Is this erroneous AI usage standard on all Elsevier products? Do they flag the use of AI at all for readers? Horrifying to read.

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