📚 📣 New Bibliography Alert!

The SHARP 2024 Bibliography is now live!

🌟 Check it out here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

The solution is “linen”.

Source: cdli.earth/artifacts/34...

Registration is now open for SHARP2025 in Rochester! Join us to think, learn, and talk about "Communities and Values of the Book." 📚

www.library.rochester.edu/rbscp/sharp2...

Quick look at one of the most important books in history. 📖 Now on view as part of Myths and Possibilities at Museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in The Hague. Imaginary worlds, alternative histories, and fictional visions of the future are timeless.

#cfp I have received some fabulous news about an upcoming conference on the history of publishing, organised by the Universitat de Barcelona. The deadline for paper abstracts is 30 May 2025. Do consider submitting one! #publishinghistory #internationalnetworks

“The ways of making sense of the stars in the sky led, in different cultures, to different manifestations of astral religion.”

In this article, Hans-Joachim Griep and Eli MacLaren study a possible origin of ‘reading’ in three early advanced cultures: doi.org/10.7202/1009...

Congratulations to @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social, BSECS-Bodleian Fellow for 2025 for their research exploring how extra-illustration – the practice of pasting images onto books – transformed the transmission of natural knowledge through the Bodleian Libraries’ collections
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen

📚 For book historian Allie Alvis (@book-historia.bsky.social), preserving rare books isn’t just about the objects—it’s about telling their stories. Alvis brings those hidden histories to life through social media, informing & entertaining a growing audience.⁠ blog.archive.org/2025/04/09/v...

📢 Call for Collaborators

Work with SHARP News Bibliographer, Alex Wingate, on the next SHARP News bibliography. The topics is: LGBTQIA+ Book History! 🏳️‍🌈

Deadline to indicate interest in collaborating is April 20, 2025.

See the full call and all details here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Who Knew Reading Was SO Dangerous?

THIS happened when a Monsieur Oufle got too involved in his demonology research! #FoldoutFriday #NewberryLibrary
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Thanks @thewildbluesky.bsky.social for introducing me to this utter insanity of an 18th c. novel!

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

This Friday- Sunday is the RGME's 2025 Spring Symposium (held online), "Makers, Producers, and Collectors of Books". We hope you join us! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-sp...

‘Tom Thumb. Cinderella. Rapunzel. Red Riding-Hood. They have established themselves as archetypal stories that seem to come from nowhere and to belong to everyone. This is an illusion.’

Colin Burrow on folk tales and the Brothers Grimm:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️

Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs.

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