Amy Solomons
@amyjsolomons.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Oxford working on Reading the Room: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/reading-room-books-access-and-community-heritage-spaces
Interested in women readers, libraries, access to books in the long 18th c.
Interested in women readers, libraries, access to books in the long 18th c.
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Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces
This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
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REGISTRATION OPEN!
Registration is now open for our second symposium, 'The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion'.
Join us for a fantastic day of enriching talks, networking, plus a tour of our new exhibition 'Blood: Ties and Tensions'.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hematopoli...
Registration is now open for our second symposium, 'The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion'.
Join us for a fantastic day of enriching talks, networking, plus a tour of our new exhibition 'Blood: Ties and Tensions'.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hematopoli...
Hematopolitics Symposium 2
The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies and Futures
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN!
Registration is now open for our second symposium, 'The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion'.
Join us for a fantastic day of enriching talks, networking, plus a tour of our new exhibition 'Blood: Ties and Tensions'.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hematopoli...
Registration is now open for our second symposium, 'The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion'.
Join us for a fantastic day of enriching talks, networking, plus a tour of our new exhibition 'Blood: Ties and Tensions'.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hematopoli...
Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces
This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...
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📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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New insights from the British Academy funded-researcher career-tracking report, conducted by @vitae-news.bsky.social highlight the long-term impact of early-career funding on researcher careers in the UK. Learn more: buff.ly/wx83rki
Pilot career tracking initiative offers evidence-based model for long-term research career development
buff.ly
May 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New insights from the British Academy funded-researcher career-tracking report, conducted by @vitae-news.bsky.social highlight the long-term impact of early-career funding on researcher careers in the UK. Learn more: buff.ly/wx83rki
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ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜
English Short Title Catalogue
datb.cerl.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜
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Is this something that people would be interested in if I looked into setting something up? I'm thinking an ECR/PGR interdisc medical humanities network with monthly WIP sessions for articles/books/chapters & a group chat to share opportunities etc. Please share with relevant ppl!
Is there such a thing as a medical humanities ECR/PGR community or WIP network? does anyone know of any groups that come under this purview?
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is this something that people would be interested in if I looked into setting something up? I'm thinking an ECR/PGR interdisc medical humanities network with monthly WIP sessions for articles/books/chapters & a group chat to share opportunities etc. Please share with relevant ppl!
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📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝
Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!
🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding
Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!
🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding
WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
May 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝
Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!
🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding
Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!
🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding
A really great few days in Scotland catching up with friends and making new connections.
It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...
It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...
April 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A really great few days in Scotland catching up with friends and making new connections.
It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...
It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...
Today is the day! I'm thrilled to have been asked to present this year's annual Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading communities in historic house libraries.
If you are in Glasgow tonight at 5pm then please come along or join online from anywhere.
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
If you are in Glasgow tonight at 5pm then please come along or join online from anywhere.
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
2025 Dr Johanna Green Annual Lecture
Thursday 24 April 2025
www.gla.ac.uk
April 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Today is the day! I'm thrilled to have been asked to present this year's annual Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading communities in historic house libraries.
If you are in Glasgow tonight at 5pm then please come along or join online from anywhere.
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
If you are in Glasgow tonight at 5pm then please come along or join online from anywhere.
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
I'll be in Glasgow this Thursday to present my research into readers in historic house libraries in Glasgow. Johanna's work inspired me to chose Glasgow for my masters in 2018 & I'm honoured to have been invited to give this lecture. In person & online:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
2025 Dr Johanna Green Annual Lecture
Thursday 24 April 2025
www.gla.ac.uk
April 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I'll be in Glasgow this Thursday to present my research into readers in historic house libraries in Glasgow. Johanna's work inspired me to chose Glasgow for my masters in 2018 & I'm honoured to have been invited to give this lecture. In person & online:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
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We've found a book.
It's called Yorkshire, Past and Present and includes a history of the three ridings (soz South Yorkshire, this is 1870 you don't exist) and some magnificent prints of landmarks and equally stupendous facial hair.
Join us on a tour of God's Own County...
It's called Yorkshire, Past and Present and includes a history of the three ridings (soz South Yorkshire, this is 1870 you don't exist) and some magnificent prints of landmarks and equally stupendous facial hair.
Join us on a tour of God's Own County...
March 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We've found a book.
It's called Yorkshire, Past and Present and includes a history of the three ridings (soz South Yorkshire, this is 1870 you don't exist) and some magnificent prints of landmarks and equally stupendous facial hair.
Join us on a tour of God's Own County...
It's called Yorkshire, Past and Present and includes a history of the three ridings (soz South Yorkshire, this is 1870 you don't exist) and some magnificent prints of landmarks and equally stupendous facial hair.
Join us on a tour of God's Own County...
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Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
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Today is #WorldBookDay!
Join us as we go through @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social collection to discover what is lurking in their 13,708,007 books! 📚
Join us as we go through @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social collection to discover what is lurking in their 13,708,007 books! 📚
March 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today is #WorldBookDay!
Join us as we go through @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social collection to discover what is lurking in their 13,708,007 books! 📚
Join us as we go through @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social collection to discover what is lurking in their 13,708,007 books! 📚
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Our rare book collections are available for EVERYONE to use for research or enjoyment in our reading room!
With more than 50,000 books published between 1471 and 2024, we have something for everyone.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/books
#WorldBookDay #RareBooks #Library #Exeter
With more than 50,000 books published between 1471 and 2024, we have something for everyone.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/books
#WorldBookDay #RareBooks #Library #Exeter
March 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our rare book collections are available for EVERYONE to use for research or enjoyment in our reading room!
With more than 50,000 books published between 1471 and 2024, we have something for everyone.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/books
#WorldBookDay #RareBooks #Library #Exeter
With more than 50,000 books published between 1471 and 2024, we have something for everyone.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/books
#WorldBookDay #RareBooks #Library #Exeter
A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
March 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
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Hi!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
SHARP NEWS – An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishingsearchexpand
sharpweb.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hi!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org.
Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!
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I'm delighted to share that I've been curating a digital exhibition, entitled '“It’s in our blood”: Identity, Blood Donation, and Transfusion', as part of my work with @hematopolitics.bsky.social. The first few pages are now live!
hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...
hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...
Digital Exhibition – Hematopolitics
hematopolitics.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'm delighted to share that I've been curating a digital exhibition, entitled '“It’s in our blood”: Identity, Blood Donation, and Transfusion', as part of my work with @hematopolitics.bsky.social. The first few pages are now live!
hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...
hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...
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We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025.
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
January 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025.
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.
Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
As part of Reading the Room I've been running workshops with stakeholders on NT library collections - how to search them, how to respond to the needs of different audiences & stories they hold.
Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?
Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?
January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As part of Reading the Room I've been running workshops with stakeholders on NT library collections - how to search them, how to respond to the needs of different audiences & stories they hold.
Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?
Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?
First day back at my desk after #BSECS2025 last week. Had a great time sharing the first snippets of research into Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's now dispersed collection of 250+ books.
January 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
First day back at my desk after #BSECS2025 last week. Had a great time sharing the first snippets of research into Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's now dispersed collection of 250+ books.
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Live scenes from #TheTraitors Castle 🏰
January 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Live scenes from #TheTraitors Castle 🏰
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So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages.
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing? We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...
www.thinicepress.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages.
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
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💫 SHE’S HERE! The Anne Lister Soc’y April program(me)!
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
January 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
💫 SHE’S HERE! The Anne Lister Soc’y April program(me)!
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
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Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern
Early Modern Female Book Ownership
#HerBook
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern