Hannah Doherty Hudson
@hdhudson.bsky.social
C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. M.C. Lang Fellow at RBS. Book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
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Okay #romancelandia, #austen fans, and #c18 #c19 folks: what are our FAVORITE Austen novel adaptations? trying to pick a fun new one to add to my spring course! current list in 🧵below.
I've started reading my way through these adaptations this week. Starting a new 🧵 here for my thoughts as I go!
#austen #romancelandia
#austen #romancelandia
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For the #BookHistory and #GLAM crowds!
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For the #BookHistory and #GLAM crowds!
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Talk to the hand
June 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Talk to the hand
This is so fascinating. Taking the sprayed edges trend into a new subgenre, too!
Today Julia Quinn announced JQ Editions, a historical romance special edition subscription service launching on Kickstarter in January.
This announcement set my whole brain on fire: it's an intersection of several trends happening within romance.
smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/12/juli...
This announcement set my whole brain on fire: it's an intersection of several trends happening within romance.
smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/12/juli...
December 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is so fascinating. Taking the sprayed edges trend into a new subgenre, too!
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Any epub folks wanna feel OLD? Here is the moment Kindle became a THING. (I used to do graphs each year of which vendors our ebook sales came from.)
December 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Any epub folks wanna feel OLD? Here is the moment Kindle became a THING. (I used to do graphs each year of which vendors our ebook sales came from.)
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Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be
December 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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Don't miss! 🌿 Pocket Books and Floating Libraries: Books as Collecting Tools in Instructions to Travelers. Anna Svensson will discuss how books haven’t just described the natural world, they’ve also helped collect it. Wed. 10 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET Zoom link, email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Don't miss! 🌿 Pocket Books and Floating Libraries: Books as Collecting Tools in Instructions to Travelers. Anna Svensson will discuss how books haven’t just described the natural world, they’ve also helped collect it. Wed. 10 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET Zoom link, email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
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Journal of European Periodical Studies is now on Bluesky! JEPS is a peer-reviewed online journal published by Ghent University on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. Follow us for news & please share! Our website: openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Journal of European Periodical Studies is now on Bluesky! JEPS is a peer-reviewed online journal published by Ghent University on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. Follow us for news & please share! Our website: openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/
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you: PhDs in the humanities should teach entrepreneurship
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
you: PhDs in the humanities should teach entrepreneurship
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
Yesterday's #acadecawriteathon did not get off to a roaring start (was slammed at work and didn't get back until bedtime, when I felt my brain was not up to the job of writing) but today I was motivated by the challenge to squeeze in 240 words after dinner!
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Yesterday's #acadecawriteathon did not get off to a roaring start (was slammed at work and didn't get back until bedtime, when I felt my brain was not up to the job of writing) but today I was motivated by the challenge to squeeze in 240 words after dinner!
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The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Feels bananas to try this right now but maybe that's the argument for doing it, so I'm in!
starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
is there a NaNoWriMo but for December and academic/ nonfiction? Should we start it?
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Feels bananas to try this right now but maybe that's the argument for doing it, so I'm in!
Reflecting that somehow I still haven't gotten around to reading Mandeville--maybe should be a winter break read for me this year!
#OTD 1 December 1817: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, the only novel by him to be published in Edinburgh, & the subject of over 55 letters in Volume 4 of my OUP Letters of William Godwin, now at press.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reflecting that somehow I still haven't gotten around to reading Mandeville--maybe should be a winter break read for me this year!
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the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
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Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
Happy to drop the place with contemporary book citations, but I work on the history of publishing, so dropping the publisher name from old books is still a big no from me.
Chicago Manual of Style arcana!
In my meeting with a student about to file his thesis, he told me he realized there's an asterisk to the idea that CMS 18 does away with place of publication.
It only does that if the book is post-1900!
Before that, you keep place & normally omit publisher!
In my meeting with a student about to file his thesis, he told me he realized there's an asterisk to the idea that CMS 18 does away with place of publication.
It only does that if the book is post-1900!
Before that, you keep place & normally omit publisher!
![14: Source Citations: Examples
14.31: Place and date only, for books published before 1900
Chapter Contents / Books / Facts of Publication / Place of Publication
For books published before 1900, the city of publication is typically of greater interest than the name of the publisher (often a long-defunct printer); it is therefore usually preferable to omit publishers’ names and instead include only a place and date of publication. A comma follows the place. See also 14.30.
1. Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (Salisbury, 1766).
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. 2 vols. Madrid, 1605–15.
If for any reason the publisher is included, retain the city of publication, followed by a colon.
Austen, Jane [as “A Lady”]. Sense and Sensibility. London: T. Egerton, 1811.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mpwyqkv2tdiho653oyczicd/bafkreidywdczjom3bt6stsfimfqlklwlkmvvfdfu2xwjidhjrpidey5biq@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Happy to drop the place with contemporary book citations, but I work on the history of publishing, so dropping the publisher name from old books is still a big no from me.
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A family has handed over a 13th century book to the National Library of Norway. Conservator Chiara Palandri says its pages were made of calfskin parchment and that the cover appears to be hairy sealskin. The strap to hold the book together is thought to have been made from reindeer hide.
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Sunday plans:
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sunday plans:
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
🖼️ Franco Matticchio
Wow!
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wow!
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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