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SHARP @sharpweb.org · Mar 3
Hi SHARPists! Check out our Starter Pack, and send us a message via chat if you'd like to be added!

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Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025.

sharpweb.org/grants-prize...
The Archie L. Dick Research Development Grants – SHARPweb
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This deadline is coming up at the end of this week. If this strikes your fancy at all, then please get in touch!
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@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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loradeets.bsky.social
So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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shaftowheed.bsky.social
Are you a social media savvy book historian with a talent for sharing news in the digital sphere? We might have a role for you! SHARP News is looking for a new editor, details below👇🏼
sharpweb.org SHARP @sharpweb.org · 15d
@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
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October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
We hope our friends and supporters can share our exciting programme widely!
@modernistudies.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @nawewriters.bsky.social @sharpweb.org @crasshlive.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
mailchi.mp
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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marielsj.bsky.social
If all goes well, this will be my #BookHistory conference season in 2026 🤞

Médias19
18-20 May @ Montpellier

@sharpweb.org
7-9 July online
no CfP

@rs4vp.org
23-25 July @tcddublin.bsky.social
🗓️ 1 Nov 👉 rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

#ESPRit2026
9-11 Sep @ kbr.be
🗓️ 7 Jan 👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or ...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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citizenwald.bsky.social
A couple of little amusements at the start of the term

1) Borrowed with due credit, Ian Gadd's iangadd.bsky.social book-ripping trick. I think he first told us about it at the 2011 @sharpweb.org conference in Washington

Now you all can enjoy it

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NPR on Instagram: "Are you a bookmark person or a dog-ear person? NPR's Andrew Limbong looks at some of the the history behind how those two camps evolved."
20K likes, 435 comments - npr on July 30, 2025: "Are you a bookmark person or a dog-ear person? NPR's Andrew Limbong looks at some of the the history behind how those two camps evolved.".
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September 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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clairesquires.bsky.social
Deeply saddened to hear of the death of book historian, librarian and bibliographile (is that a word?) extraordinaire Ian Willison, as circulated today by Simon Eliot via @sharpweb.org list serv (see list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/sh...) 1/
A screenshot of text which reads: I have to report the death of Ian Willison (1926-2025) on the 27 August, just a few days after he had celebrated his 99th birthday. Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and University College London, Ian had a long and distinguished career in librarianship, bibliography, and book history. He worked in the Library of the British Museum (1955-74) and then in the British Library (1974-87), finally becoming its Head of English Language (British). He was Visiting Professor of Historical Bibliography, University of Chicago (1959); and Cline Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin (1989). He was editor of volume 4 of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1972), and was one of the three General Editors of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (1999-2019). He was awarded a CBE for his services to the history of the book in 2005. Ian was the founder and benefactor of the Willison Foundation Charitable Trust, which was set up in 2016 to offer grants to those involved in research in book history. It has since supported many members of SHARP. Ian’s intellectual enthusiasm and support benefitted many individuals and organisations. He was chair of the UK Book Trade History Group (1985–98), and helped to found the Institute of English Studies in the University of London in 1999, of which he was one of its first senior research fellows. He was also a keen supporter of SHARP in its formative years. Those who knew him will remember Ian not just as scholar, but also as an enthusiastic, generous, kindly, and congenial man. He will be greatly missed. Simon Eliot
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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citizenwald.bsky.social
I always remember @iangadd.bsky.social telling me about that opening trick from his classes--
but I also recall his paper on dog-earing at the 2015 @sharpweb.org conference

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all text from program
August 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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citizenwald.bsky.social
Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books?

view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...

On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🏆 We'd like to officially congratulate @eve.gd, whose *Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History* (Stanford University Press, 2024) won our 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize! www.sup.org/books/media-...
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History | Stanford University Press
Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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How is everyone's @sharpweb.org #SHARP2025?!

#BookHistory
July 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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mazarine.bsky.social
Such an impressive group of finalists for the @sharpweb.org book history prize…

…and extra congratulations to prize recipient Martin Paul Eve for his “Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History”!

#SHARP2025
Screen of 13 book covers with presenter with mic speaking below the screen
July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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wynkenhimself.bsky.social
So delighted that Martin Eve’s Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History has won the @sharpweb.org book prize!! #BookHistory #SHARP2025 📚
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July 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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marielsj.bsky.social
THIS IS EGALITY! Because of the all-genders bathrooms at @urochester.bsky.social, *guys* have to queue to go pee during coffee breaks at #SHARP2025 like us girls!
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone posting from #sharp2025 into the blue skies. I am reading your posts, and I appreciate that you are doing this. #bookhistory for the win.
July 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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cejacobson.bsky.social
hey #SHARP2025 good news, I have started work on my slides for my presentation that starts in *checks notes* 48 hours
slide deck that reads, "Thanks for Typing Surfacing Women's Type Labor in the Archives" on the left and on the right a lithograph poster of a woman in a golden edwardian dress sits working at a typewriter on a table with books and a vase of flowers
July 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Printing a broadside at #sharp2025
This is a reproduction of The North Star, 1848 from Frederick Douglas, originally printed about a mile away in Rochester, NY.
Type on a type bed Type on a Washington Press
July 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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scholarschoice.bsky.social
Over at today's @sharpweb.org conference, @wlupress.bsky.social co-authors Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires stopped by and are pictured below with their book The Frankfurt Kabuff. #SHARP2025
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Kathy Walkup and Crystal Z Campbell speaking @sharpweb.org for Keynote 2 on Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop and Press. Joan Lyons, founder and past director, seated with Scott McCarney, Megan N Liberty and Tate Shaw.
July 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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gbarnhisel.bsky.social
The BOOK HISTORY editors are here in Rochester at the @sharpweb.org conference and ready to answer your questions or help you with any issues you might have missed! #bookhistory #sharp2025
July 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Visit our unstaffed table at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing conference in Rochester, NY to learn about our journals and grab some giveaways. Can't make it in person? Discover our journals here: ow.ly/kt2050WkuHG @sharpweb.org
Literary studies journals from Chicago
July 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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joliebraun.bsky.social
Getting my presentation on 1990s zines & small magazine distributors ready for the #SHARP2025 conference next week, super excited to be part of a zine panel.
Screenshot of presentation slide featuring advertisements for distributors Fine Print and Desert Moon from issues of Factsheet Five.
July 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM