Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
mostly doing early modern book history theory around provenance… with some literature thrown in for good measure
volunteer for Abortion Support Network & sometime poet
book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
volunteer for Abortion Support Network & sometime poet
book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
I mean, it's certainly a title
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I mean, it's certainly a title
Really enjoying the epigraph choices for Christopher Hill’s biography of Cromwell.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Really enjoying the epigraph choices for Christopher Hill’s biography of Cromwell.
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
It’s my birthday! My book has finally entered production! I severely hurt my hip at the gig! Not from the pit, just from bad posture! This morning a charity knocker apologised because she only wanted to speak to people over 30 and I did not correct her!
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s my birthday! My book has finally entered production! I severely hurt my hip at the gig! Not from the pit, just from bad posture! This morning a charity knocker apologised because she only wanted to speak to people over 30 and I did not correct her!
he deserves some hardcore punk fun (and I needed to finish reading something)
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
he deserves some hardcore punk fun (and I needed to finish reading something)
Cordy is uncertain about her new best friend. Henry is eyeing up his next victim.
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Cordy is uncertain about her new best friend. Henry is eyeing up his next victim.
I see RSA acceptances are out! I’m speaking on a panel called Who’s Afraid of Areopagitica? and the answer is: I am
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I see RSA acceptances are out! I’m speaking on a panel called Who’s Afraid of Areopagitica? and the answer is: I am
found a new favourite printer's mark today, that of Heinrich Petri:
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
found a new favourite printer's mark today, that of Heinrich Petri:
A nice research day at the Plume Library in Maldon.
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A nice research day at the Plume Library in Maldon.
to be in a room with a band expressing their fear, loneliness, anger at the world — and to have it magnified back by an audience who have or continue to feel the same — and for that exchange to be joyful somehow, communal — it is not a cure but it is a hope. & it never ceases to be magical to me
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
to be in a room with a band expressing their fear, loneliness, anger at the world — and to have it magnified back by an audience who have or continue to feel the same — and for that exchange to be joyful somehow, communal — it is not a cure but it is a hope. & it never ceases to be magical to me
new and forthcoming 👀 allegedly will be out *this month*
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
new and forthcoming 👀 allegedly will be out *this month*
‘If Shakespeare was around today, he surely would have been down with wearing your heart on your hips (rather than your sleeve).’
October 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
‘If Shakespeare was around today, he surely would have been down with wearing your heart on your hips (rather than your sleeve).’
This is Mycroft. I don’t know what he’s watching
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is Mycroft. I don’t know what he’s watching
All went well. The comfiest spot in the room has been located.
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
All went well. The comfiest spot in the room has been located.
Microdosing the feeling of being famous (taking a cat on public transport)
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Microdosing the feeling of being famous (taking a cat on public transport)
Orange plate from 1450 & a book by @joannapocock.bsky.social which is everything I’d hoped it would be
October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Orange plate from 1450 & a book by @joannapocock.bsky.social which is everything I’d hoped it would be
Storing my not-at-all-homoerotic fighting manual manuscript in my not-at-all-homoerotic Saint Sebastian book casket.
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Storing my not-at-all-homoerotic fighting manual manuscript in my not-at-all-homoerotic Saint Sebastian book casket.
John Burnside. ‘The only gift is knowing we belong / to nothing’
October 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
John Burnside. ‘The only gift is knowing we belong / to nothing’
All that fur proves useful in becoming the Cosiest Animal Ever.
October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All that fur proves useful in becoming the Cosiest Animal Ever.
Hugely enjoying this Elizabethan wood panelling / fireplace combo in Bristol
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Hugely enjoying this Elizabethan wood panelling / fireplace combo in Bristol
Obviously this is bullshit, but I do find this part revealing. The desire for an ‘objective’ standard of art, a world where there is no doubt or need for personal taste and judgement, still ultimately subordinated to the emotional experience.
September 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Obviously this is bullshit, but I do find this part revealing. The desire for an ‘objective’ standard of art, a world where there is no doubt or need for personal taste and judgement, still ultimately subordinated to the emotional experience.
every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill
September 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill
Emoji // book worm
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Emoji // book worm
