Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
Early modern book provenance, libraries, ethics of ownership, names, &c.
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network.
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network.
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
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Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
pleased to announce Suede have very much Still Got It
Excited to spend some time with love of my life Brett Anderson later today
February 11, 2026 at 10:19 PM
pleased to announce Suede have very much Still Got It
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Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads?
My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.
My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads?
My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.
My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.
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For those of you descending on San Francisco for RSA next week, join us at Book History Now (a 3-part series)
- Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
The papers in this session raise questions about materiality, media, production networks, circulation networks, and methods for putting Renaissance manuscripts and print to work today.
rsa.confex.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
For those of you descending on San Francisco for RSA next week, join us at Book History Now (a 3-part series)
- Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
considering making a conference badge that says "I have exceptionally poor facial recognition please don't hold it against me"
February 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
considering making a conference badge that says "I have exceptionally poor facial recognition please don't hold it against me"
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The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Excited to spend some time with love of my life Brett Anderson later today
February 11, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Excited to spend some time with love of my life Brett Anderson later today
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‘I Could Totally Do That,’ Says Correct Man Watching Luge Event https://theonion.com/i-could-totally-do-that-says-correct-man-watching-luge-event/
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
‘I Could Totally Do That,’ Says Correct Man Watching Luge Event https://theonion.com/i-could-totally-do-that-says-correct-man-watching-luge-event/
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I’m really proud of Bangor University students today. Very much in the spirit of Penrhyndeudraeth lad Bertrand Russell, when he said that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from an association between us”, when invited to debate Oswald Mosley.
February 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I’m really proud of Bangor University students today. Very much in the spirit of Penrhyndeudraeth lad Bertrand Russell, when he said that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from an association between us”, when invited to debate Oswald Mosley.
would getting a tattoo of the 1591 cat man solve all my problems
Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 AM
would getting a tattoo of the 1591 cat man solve all my problems
I actually do think Wuthering Heights is a great love story 😔 I think Romeo and Juliet is too 😔
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I actually do think Wuthering Heights is a great love story 😔 I think Romeo and Juliet is too 😔
it's wild that you can spend months trying to make a piece of writing work and failing, and then suddenly you just realise: oh no, I need to move this bit to the start! and then all at once the shape of the whole thing unravels itself to you!
February 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
it's wild that you can spend months trying to make a piece of writing work and failing, and then suddenly you just realise: oh no, I need to move this bit to the start! and then all at once the shape of the whole thing unravels itself to you!
‘So, really quickly, what is this about?’
February 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
‘So, really quickly, what is this about?’
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Hidden in the binding of this 16th century French herbal, a book describing the uses of plants, are sheets of printed 'waste' used by the binder to bulk up the cover. This seems to be a frame for something never printed #fragments #bindings
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Hidden in the binding of this 16th century French herbal, a book describing the uses of plants, are sheets of printed 'waste' used by the binder to bulk up the cover. This seems to be a frame for something never printed #fragments #bindings
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Hearing it might be Ben Swain.
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Hearing it might be Ben Swain.
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Trying to read the text in this print-on-demand book.
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Trying to read the text in this print-on-demand book.
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Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl…
—Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl…
—Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...
February 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl…
—Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl…
—Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...
The cruelty of making this decision the way that the did, without even the decency of telling people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM
The cruelty of making this decision the way that the did, without even the decency of telling people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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holy shit.
extremely proud of Omar and his team for taking this stand.
what a stain on HRW's reputation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
extremely proud of Omar and his team for taking this stand.
what a stain on HRW's reputation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked
The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
holy shit.
extremely proud of Omar and his team for taking this stand.
what a stain on HRW's reputation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
extremely proud of Omar and his team for taking this stand.
what a stain on HRW's reputation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text
Sandwiching a Forbidden Text
“The advent of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century led to...”
hmml.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text
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It doesn’t matter if this accessibility problem is only temporarily. We should not rely on a US-based big tech player when it comes to digitized cultural heritage. Full point. #GoogleBooks
February 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
It doesn’t matter if this accessibility problem is only temporarily. We should not rely on a US-based big tech player when it comes to digitized cultural heritage. Full point. #GoogleBooks
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The unwritten Handbook of Digital Instability will have a chapter on the broken dream of the Google Books project.
February 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The unwritten Handbook of Digital Instability will have a chapter on the broken dream of the Google Books project.
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Coming soonish…
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Coming soonish…
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My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Selling Education in England, 1650–1715*
Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang
academic.oup.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Been rewatching Seinfeld, which is fine. Except now all my thoughts come in Seinfeld cadence, and also the article I’m trying to write,
February 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Been rewatching Seinfeld, which is fine. Except now all my thoughts come in Seinfeld cadence, and also the article I’m trying to write,