John Stone
@john-stone.bsky.social
Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
In a moany-groany sort of voice, #becauseHalloween:
My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.
My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In a moany-groany sort of voice, #becauseHalloween:
My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.
My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.
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Seems to be a tiny mouse (other suggestions gratefully received) hitching a ride on this fifteenth-century manicule. In a copy of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, printed at Barcelona c. 1473. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.H.3.3[3472].
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Seems to be a tiny mouse (other suggestions gratefully received) hitching a ride on this fifteenth-century manicule. In a copy of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, printed at Barcelona c. 1473. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.H.3.3[3472].
***World Shakespeare Congress Pre-Registration Deadline Extended***
Dear colleagues,
Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...
Dear colleagues,
Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
***World Shakespeare Congress Pre-Registration Deadline Extended***
Dear colleagues,
Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...
Dear colleagues,
Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...
On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.
I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but.....
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but.....
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland!
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
September 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland!
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella.
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella.
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca.
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca.
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
With another Canadian, in Coruña.
July 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
With another Canadian, in Coruña.
C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is?
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
June 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is?
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain?
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain?
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.
April 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.
From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism."
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
March 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism."
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness.
#humbledbyatinyhand
#humbledbyatinyhand
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness.
#humbledbyatinyhand
#humbledbyatinyhand
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Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉
March 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉
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Thinking on this Women's Day about my English grandmother, Winnie Howes, who, in 1917, attained a new freedom by enlisting in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.
Thinking, too, about the story that, appalled by their lack of femininity, other women spat on the Corps when they saw them in the streets.
Thinking, too, about the story that, appalled by their lack of femininity, other women spat on the Corps when they saw them in the streets.
March 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thinking on this Women's Day about my English grandmother, Winnie Howes, who, in 1917, attained a new freedom by enlisting in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.
Thinking, too, about the story that, appalled by their lack of femininity, other women spat on the Corps when they saw them in the streets.
Thinking, too, about the story that, appalled by their lack of femininity, other women spat on the Corps when they saw them in the streets.
Catalan history for IWD! Founded in 1909 by Francesca Bonnemaison (after whom it is now named), the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona, part of a wider effort to open continuing education to women, was Europe's first women's library. Closed in 1936, it reopened as part of the Espai Bonnemaison in 2004.
March 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Catalan history for IWD! Founded in 1909 by Francesca Bonnemaison (after whom it is now named), the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona, part of a wider effort to open continuing education to women, was Europe's first women's library. Closed in 1936, it reopened as part of the Espai Bonnemaison in 2004.
Don't skimp on editors -- or coffee!
March 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Don't skimp on editors -- or coffee!
Reposted by John Stone
You can see some other examples of surviving Joug Collars in one of our recent blogs, along with some other information about this form of coercive social control exerted by Scottish Kirk Sessions in the 17th and 18th centuries 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-pla... #IronWorkThursday
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-pla... #IronWorkThursday
February 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
You can see some other examples of surviving Joug Collars in one of our recent blogs, along with some other information about this form of coercive social control exerted by Scottish Kirk Sessions in the 17th and 18th centuries 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-pla... #IronWorkThursday
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-pla... #IronWorkThursday
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Our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek this week is Spott Parish Church in East Lothian.
At its door you will find an historic "Joug Collar", in which the Kirk Session would tether those they deemed sinners to humiliate them as their friends and neighbours filed past.
#IronworkThursday
At its door you will find an historic "Joug Collar", in which the Kirk Session would tether those they deemed sinners to humiliate them as their friends and neighbours filed past.
#IronworkThursday
February 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek this week is Spott Parish Church in East Lothian.
At its door you will find an historic "Joug Collar", in which the Kirk Session would tether those they deemed sinners to humiliate them as their friends and neighbours filed past.
#IronworkThursday
At its door you will find an historic "Joug Collar", in which the Kirk Session would tether those they deemed sinners to humiliate them as their friends and neighbours filed past.
#IronworkThursday
Reposted by John Stone
The journal Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo (University of Cádiz) is seeking articles for its 2026 issue on "Censorship in 18th century Spain".
Full details here: revistas.uca.es/index.php/ci...
Full details here: revistas.uca.es/index.php/ci...
Convocatoria de monográfico para número de 2026
revistas.uca.es
February 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The journal Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo (University of Cádiz) is seeking articles for its 2026 issue on "Censorship in 18th century Spain".
Full details here: revistas.uca.es/index.php/ci...
Full details here: revistas.uca.es/index.php/ci...
In your opinion, what’s a cover version of a song that not only holds up to the original but wildly exceeds it? Here’s mine:
youtu.be/yXNJnUbv7OA?...
youtu.be/yXNJnUbv7OA?...
When Doves Cry
YouTube video by Patti Smith - Topic
youtu.be
February 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
In your opinion, what’s a cover version of a song that not only holds up to the original but wildly exceeds it? Here’s mine:
youtu.be/yXNJnUbv7OA?...
youtu.be/yXNJnUbv7OA?...
Just a bit of censorship in an often bawdy book which once belonged to a recusant collection in Spain, in the seventeenth century.
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
February 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just a bit of censorship in an often bawdy book which once belonged to a recusant collection in Spain, in the seventeenth century.
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
Reposted by John Stone
Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History
University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...
University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...
Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History at University of Oxford
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February 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History
University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...
University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...
From the back of a 1616 Ben Jonson folio; or the moment a C18 person wonders why we now sometimes get called #earlymodernists.
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
December 14, 2024 at 11:43 AM
From the back of a 1616 Ben Jonson folio; or the moment a C18 person wonders why we now sometimes get called #earlymodernists.
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
This stuff is worse than Boswell!