Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
mostly doing early modern book history theory around provenance… with some literature thrown in for good measure
volunteer for Abortion Support Network & sometime poet
book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
volunteer for Abortion Support Network & sometime poet
book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
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Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
· Jun 30
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
Anyone here keen on SF & has a suggestion on a) whether Iain M Banks’ Culture series is worth reading & b) if so, where to start?
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Anyone here keen on SF & has a suggestion on a) whether Iain M Banks’ Culture series is worth reading & b) if so, where to start?
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Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
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November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
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can anyone who has had library fellowships or similar in the US recommend a tax accountant who can help with claiming back the $$$ that are taken pre-payment? i have tried the self-service route and have hit several brick walls (social security numbers, mailed-in documents, etc etc)
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
can anyone who has had library fellowships or similar in the US recommend a tax accountant who can help with claiming back the $$$ that are taken pre-payment? i have tried the self-service route and have hit several brick walls (social security numbers, mailed-in documents, etc etc)
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin
is a sandwich a speech act
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin
It’s my birthday! My book has finally entered production! I severely hurt my hip at the gig! Not from the pit, just from bad posture! This morning a charity knocker apologised because she only wanted to speak to people over 30 and I did not correct her!
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s my birthday! My book has finally entered production! I severely hurt my hip at the gig! Not from the pit, just from bad posture! This morning a charity knocker apologised because she only wanted to speak to people over 30 and I did not correct her!
I joke that I’m becoming radicalised against digitisation for a number of reasons (AI scraping; false assumptions of some sort of innate accessibility; increased cyberattacks) but this is the main reason
Today, I'm trying to work with a digital humanities project. I would love to use it and share it widely, but unfortunately, it has decayed badly since it was launched (in 2017), and it tough to use. Longevity (even relatively short-term!) is such a problem in digital humanities.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I joke that I’m becoming radicalised against digitisation for a number of reasons (AI scraping; false assumptions of some sort of innate accessibility; increased cyberattacks) but this is the main reason
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
Am I… going to take my copy of John Milton’s prose to the Turnstile gig tonight?
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Am I… going to take my copy of John Milton’s prose to the Turnstile gig tonight?
congratulations New York on your hot mayor
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
congratulations New York on your hot mayor
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We are delighted to announce a virtual winter lectures for exhibition 'A body of knowledge' is open to book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
🗓️ 6pm GMT, 9 Dec, £5
😍 Featuring a virtual exhibition tour & fascinating lectures from @awickenden.bsky.social & @samuscript.bsky.social!
#LibraryHistory
🗓️ 6pm GMT, 9 Dec, £5
😍 Featuring a virtual exhibition tour & fascinating lectures from @awickenden.bsky.social & @samuscript.bsky.social!
#LibraryHistory
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are delighted to announce a virtual winter lectures for exhibition 'A body of knowledge' is open to book 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
🗓️ 6pm GMT, 9 Dec, £5
😍 Featuring a virtual exhibition tour & fascinating lectures from @awickenden.bsky.social & @samuscript.bsky.social!
#LibraryHistory
🗓️ 6pm GMT, 9 Dec, £5
😍 Featuring a virtual exhibition tour & fascinating lectures from @awickenden.bsky.social & @samuscript.bsky.social!
#LibraryHistory
I think this is weirdly and quite aggressively wrong: people under 20 understand the value of physical media? Admittedly sometimes in horrifying ways (not over my brother's boyfriend telling me he collects CDs, as a novelty)
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Trade me a goat for some turnips! Nothing is more outdated than the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert
A child going into an actual shop and buying a vinyl record? It will make you feel old and decrepit, and it’ll utterly bamboozle young people … but shut up – it’s Christmas!
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I think this is weirdly and quite aggressively wrong: people under 20 understand the value of physical media? Admittedly sometimes in horrifying ways (not over my brother's boyfriend telling me he collects CDs, as a novelty)
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Mega excited that @awickenden.bsky.social and @samuscript.bsky.social are speaking on 9 December for @rcpmuseum.bsky.social winter lectures. Online, 6pm GMT, £5, book now: history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... #LibraryHistory #GLAM📚
history.rcp.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Mega excited that @awickenden.bsky.social and @samuscript.bsky.social are speaking on 9 December for @rcpmuseum.bsky.social winter lectures. Online, 6pm GMT, £5, book now: history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... #LibraryHistory #GLAM📚
Really looking forward to this!
Mega excited that @awickenden.bsky.social and @samuscript.bsky.social are speaking on 9 December for @rcpmuseum.bsky.social winter lectures. Online, 6pm GMT, £5, book now: history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... #LibraryHistory #GLAM📚
history.rcp.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Really looking forward to this!
Have official confirmation it will be December. Ask your library to buy the most exciting Christmas present going!
when will my book return from war (be published)... how am I meant to promote it when nobody can tell me and three different months are listed online... anyway, please ask your library to pre-order my book! it is good! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Have official confirmation it will be December. Ask your library to buy the most exciting Christmas present going!
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My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.
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As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
Cordy is uncertain about her new best friend. Henry is eyeing up his next victim.
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Cordy is uncertain about her new best friend. Henry is eyeing up his next victim.
I enjoyed this article on aphantasia (and hyperphantasia). Unlike some of these interviewees I don't have any grief about not being able to visualise, but I share the weirdness of realising of how different other people's experience of being human is...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
www.newyorker.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I enjoyed this article on aphantasia (and hyperphantasia). Unlike some of these interviewees I don't have any grief about not being able to visualise, but I share the weirdness of realising of how different other people's experience of being human is...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
when will my book return from war (be published)... how am I meant to promote it when nobody can tell me and three different months are listed online... anyway, please ask your library to pre-order my book! it is good! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
when will my book return from war (be published)... how am I meant to promote it when nobody can tell me and three different months are listed online... anyway, please ask your library to pre-order my book! it is good! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Reposted by Alice Wickenden
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
I see RSA acceptances are out! I’m speaking on a panel called Who’s Afraid of Areopagitica? and the answer is: I am
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I see RSA acceptances are out! I’m speaking on a panel called Who’s Afraid of Areopagitica? and the answer is: I am