Drew Thomas
@drewbthomas.bsky.social
Historian at UCD working on early modern printing, counterfeiting, visual communication and AI • THE INDUSTRY OF EVANGELISM out now from Brill • FRHistS
I just noticed that today is the final day to download "How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research" for free from Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research
Cambridge Core - Education policy, strategy and reform - How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research
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November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I just noticed that today is the final day to download "How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research" for free from Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Interior designers in 2025: “Arrange your books by color, it’s chic ✨”
Lady Bindloss in 1671: “Been there, done that.” 📚🎨
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l...
Lady Bindloss in 1671: “Been there, done that.” 📚🎨
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l...
Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)
Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…
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August 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Interior designers in 2025: “Arrange your books by color, it’s chic ✨”
Lady Bindloss in 1671: “Been there, done that.” 📚🎨
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l...
Lady Bindloss in 1671: “Been there, done that.” 📚🎨
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l...
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Vandalism! At some stage in its nearly 500 year history, someone cut out the printer's ornament from the title page of our 1544 copy of Aesop's Fables.
August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Vandalism! At some stage in its nearly 500 year history, someone cut out the printer's ornament from the title page of our 1544 copy of Aesop's Fables.
Does stamping butter predate the Gutenberg press?
July 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Does stamping butter predate the Gutenberg press?
Bookworms in the news! 📖🐛(ok, in this case, beetles) wapo.st/44FIveA
Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation
A medieval abbey in Hungary is battling a beetle infestation threatening its ancient book collection
wapo.st
July 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Bookworms in the news! 📖🐛(ok, in this case, beetles) wapo.st/44FIveA
When did libraries realize their Luther pamphlets were fakes?
My new Open Access article, "Provenance and Deception: Tracking Counterfeit Luther Pamphlets in Wittenberg", traces how centuries of provenance work slowly brought them to light.
📚 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1357...
My new Open Access article, "Provenance and Deception: Tracking Counterfeit Luther Pamphlets in Wittenberg", traces how centuries of provenance work slowly brought them to light.
📚 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1357...
Provenance and Deception: Tracking Counterfeit Luther Pamphlets in Wittenberg
This article explores the phenomenon of counterfeit copies of Martin Luther’s pamphlets within the Reformationsgeschichtliche Forschungsbibliothek (RFB) in Wittenberg. Following the rise of Luther,...
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July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
When did libraries realize their Luther pamphlets were fakes?
My new Open Access article, "Provenance and Deception: Tracking Counterfeit Luther Pamphlets in Wittenberg", traces how centuries of provenance work slowly brought them to light.
📚 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1357...
My new Open Access article, "Provenance and Deception: Tracking Counterfeit Luther Pamphlets in Wittenberg", traces how centuries of provenance work slowly brought them to light.
📚 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1357...
I had a great time in Saint-Étienne recently, speaking about multi-modal computer vision and Iconclass. Got to see a bit of Lyon too.
June 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I had a great time in Saint-Étienne recently, speaking about multi-modal computer vision and Iconclass. Got to see a bit of Lyon too.
Excited to present this week at "Computer Vision for the Investigation of Ornaments and Ancient Documents" @ Université Jean Monnet! My talk: Captions, Codes & Clusters—on using multimodal AI to map visual culture & religious messaging in the Reformation.
June 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Excited to present this week at "Computer Vision for the Investigation of Ornaments and Ancient Documents" @ Université Jean Monnet! My talk: Captions, Codes & Clusters—on using multimodal AI to map visual culture & religious messaging in the Reformation.
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Among the many characteristics of being the Catholic King of #France in seventeenth-century Europe was to burn and ban Protestant books.
In this image from 1691 you see Louis le Grand banning, burning and condeming books by Luther and Calvin. A symbolic #bookburning event and a religious #bookban 📚
In this image from 1691 you see Louis le Grand banning, burning and condeming books by Luther and Calvin. A symbolic #bookburning event and a religious #bookban 📚
May 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Among the many characteristics of being the Catholic King of #France in seventeenth-century Europe was to burn and ban Protestant books.
In this image from 1691 you see Louis le Grand banning, burning and condeming books by Luther and Calvin. A symbolic #bookburning event and a religious #bookban 📚
In this image from 1691 you see Louis le Grand banning, burning and condeming books by Luther and Calvin. A symbolic #bookburning event and a religious #bookban 📚
What a fantastic find! In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
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In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
What a fantastic find! In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Exciting that my book "The Industry of Evangelism" just got a great review in the latest Renaissance Quarterly:
“Definitive... a major contribution to early modern European print culture that cannot be overlooked.”
📖 Review: doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
📘 Book info: doi.org/10.1163/9789...
“Definitive... a major contribution to early modern European print culture that cannot be overlooked.”
📖 Review: doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
📘 Book info: doi.org/10.1163/9789...
May 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Exciting that my book "The Industry of Evangelism" just got a great review in the latest Renaissance Quarterly:
“Definitive... a major contribution to early modern European print culture that cannot be overlooked.”
📖 Review: doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
📘 Book info: doi.org/10.1163/9789...
“Definitive... a major contribution to early modern European print culture that cannot be overlooked.”
📖 Review: doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
📘 Book info: doi.org/10.1163/9789...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Giving a talk in 2 weeks on how AI is transforming historical image analysis. Illustrations, iconography, and algorithms collide. Join me!
📍From Text to Image
📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30
📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...
📍From Text to Image
📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30
📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...
From text to image: Visual and multimodal AI in the Digital Humanities
While text-based AI applications are well established, images present unique challenges: they are not inherently machine-readable, posing significant challenges for large-scale analysis.
isig.fbk.eu
April 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Giving a talk in 2 weeks on how AI is transforming historical image analysis. Illustrations, iconography, and algorithms collide. Join me!
📍From Text to Image
📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30
📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...
📍From Text to Image
📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30
📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...
"Tell your students you will be giving the same essay question to a tool such as ChatGPT. They will be marked on how much better their version is than the machine’s: how much more original, creative, perceptive or accurate..."
Great article this. Informed by lecturers who are actually setting and marking assessments. More like this please.
Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’
[FREE TO READ] Generative AI is a tempting short-cut that can prevent those at university from gaining foundational skills
www.ft.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"Tell your students you will be giving the same essay question to a tool such as ChatGPT. They will be marked on how much better their version is than the machine’s: how much more original, creative, perceptive or accurate..."
"Divine or not, mom's going to be mad about the footprints." (Augsburg, 1476)
February 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM
"Divine or not, mom's going to be mad about the footprints." (Augsburg, 1476)