Anna-Lujz Gilbert
@annalujz.bsky.social
book history | digital humanities | early modern
Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.
Distressed, today, to find that happenstantial is not a word, when it very clearly should be.
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Distressed, today, to find that happenstantial is not a word, when it very clearly should be.
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Just in time for #GreenLibrariesWeek , a new LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Just in time for #GreenLibrariesWeek , a new LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
Realised that it’s now been longer since submitting my thesis than I spent writing it. More or less managing to suppress worries about what I should have achieved in that time with the thought of how happy 2021 Anna would have been to know she would get to work on a couple more projects.
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Realised that it’s now been longer since submitting my thesis than I spent writing it. More or less managing to suppress worries about what I should have achieved in that time with the thought of how happy 2021 Anna would have been to know she would get to work on a couple more projects.
My two modes of writing:
1) what an exquisite sentence, you clever girl
2) your ideas are too POOR, your knowledge too WEAK, your prose INSUFFICIENT
(see also, rereading past work)
1) what an exquisite sentence, you clever girl
2) your ideas are too POOR, your knowledge too WEAK, your prose INSUFFICIENT
(see also, rereading past work)
October 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My two modes of writing:
1) what an exquisite sentence, you clever girl
2) your ideas are too POOR, your knowledge too WEAK, your prose INSUFFICIENT
(see also, rereading past work)
1) what an exquisite sentence, you clever girl
2) your ideas are too POOR, your knowledge too WEAK, your prose INSUFFICIENT
(see also, rereading past work)
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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Have to say I’m very much here for people-giving-away-their-windfall-apples season. No photo because I’ve been too busy eating the things.
October 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Have to say I’m very much here for people-giving-away-their-windfall-apples season. No photo because I’ve been too busy eating the things.
Is there a German word for the joy of unexpectedly finding a trove of new archival evidence and simultaneously the dread of having to somehow account for it in an already overflowing article you’d ‘finished’ doing the primary research for?
October 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Is there a German word for the joy of unexpectedly finding a trove of new archival evidence and simultaneously the dread of having to somehow account for it in an already overflowing article you’d ‘finished’ doing the primary research for?
A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle
October 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle
Procrastinating (never!) by browsing books in the library. Here’s a copy of Lewis Morris’s The Epic of Hades that was gifted in 1901 by Marie Muller to Ernest Newlandsmith, who would quote from it in The Temple of Art (1904). Then gifted to the Exeter University library by a Mrs W Wordsworth.
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Procrastinating (never!) by browsing books in the library. Here’s a copy of Lewis Morris’s The Epic of Hades that was gifted in 1901 by Marie Muller to Ernest Newlandsmith, who would quote from it in The Temple of Art (1904). Then gifted to the Exeter University library by a Mrs W Wordsworth.
‘Tis the season for getting home and finding one’s pockets mysteriously full of perfect conkers
September 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
‘Tis the season for getting home and finding one’s pockets mysteriously full of perfect conkers
Can anyone help me with an eighteenth century history question? If a clergyman writes c. 1730 that they do not have money for a license from their parish or college (they're a Fellow), what kind of license would this be? Marriage?
September 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Can anyone help me with an eighteenth century history question? If a clergyman writes c. 1730 that they do not have money for a license from their parish or college (they're a Fellow), what kind of license would this be? Marriage?
Cambridge student Ambrose Bonwicke, writing to his father about a prospective room mate in 1711: “He ... is genteel enough in his dialect, being neither a northern nor western lad, out of which two quarters bad dialects usually come”
September 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Cambridge student Ambrose Bonwicke, writing to his father about a prospective room mate in 1711: “He ... is genteel enough in his dialect, being neither a northern nor western lad, out of which two quarters bad dialects usually come”
Turns out not being able to access your dms because of not having done the age verification thing doesn’t stop anyone else from messaging you.
I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Turns out not being able to access your dms because of not having done the age verification thing doesn’t stop anyone else from messaging you.
I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
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Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
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September 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
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What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.
#earlymodern #skystorians
#earlymodern #skystorians
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA
How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2
'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA
How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2
September 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.
#earlymodern #skystorians
#earlymodern #skystorians
Day two of conference two this week, and I’m happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chetham’s
September 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Day two of conference two this week, and I’m happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chetham’s
Day two of the Built With Books conference @livesandletters.bsky.social ! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Day two of the Built With Books conference @livesandletters.bsky.social ! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England
The walk through Hyde Park isn’t a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The walk through Hyde Park isn’t a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube
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My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the “best and most useful books for each faculty and science” in his public library for Dublin. @marshslibrary.bsky.social #BuiltWithBooks
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴☠️
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴☠️
Looking forward to this today #BuiltWithBooks
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the “best and most useful books for each faculty and science” in his public library for Dublin. @marshslibrary.bsky.social #BuiltWithBooks
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴☠️
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴☠️
The classic case of going into a draft specifically to cut words and somehow ending up with a net gain of several hundred words.
August 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The classic case of going into a draft specifically to cut words and somehow ending up with a net gain of several hundred words.
Reposted by Anna-Lujz Gilbert
We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH
Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH
Rylands BlogIntroducing the Early European Print collection
John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections
ow.ly
August 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH
Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH
Reposted by Anna-Lujz Gilbert
July 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Dipping back into some book provenance notes in preparation for the @livesandletters.bsky.social Built With Books conference and have quickly become stuck trying to disentangle the thicket that is the social networks of book owners c. 1600.
July 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Dipping back into some book provenance notes in preparation for the @livesandletters.bsky.social Built With Books conference and have quickly become stuck trying to disentangle the thicket that is the social networks of book owners c. 1600.