Joseph Hone
@josephhone.bsky.social
Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!
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Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
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011345 - University of Galway
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September 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
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By what I still worry must be a glaring clerical error, I will be spending the coming term at All Souls. Let’s catch up, Oxford people! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-jo...
Dr Joseph Hone | All Souls College
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September 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
By what I still worry must be a glaring clerical error, I will be spending the coming term at All Souls. Let’s catch up, Oxford people! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-jo...
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Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
August 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.
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We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
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August 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.
The earliest known depiction of a crop circle is in The Mowing-Devil (1678), a 5-page pamphlet which recounts a labor dispute ending with an unwitting deal with the devil, and a field mown in way “that no Mortal Man was able to do the like”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #cropcircles
July 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.
Where’s Hilary gone?!
June 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Where’s Hilary gone?!
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Registration for the 3rd Queer Bibliography symposium is now live! Please share widely.
Attendance is FREE with registration; the symposium runs 11-13 June both in-person at Newcastle University (UK) & online.
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Attendance is FREE with registration; the symposium runs 11-13 June both in-person at Newcastle University (UK) & online.
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Queer Bibliography 2025: Attendee Registration
Please fill out the form below to register for attendance for Queer Bibliography 2025: In the Making, held at Newcastle University (UK) 11-13 June 2025, on site and online. If you are speaking, you ar...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Registration for the 3rd Queer Bibliography symposium is now live! Please share widely.
Attendance is FREE with registration; the symposium runs 11-13 June both in-person at Newcastle University (UK) & online.
Register (by 09 June): bit.ly/QB2025Register
Short Programme: bit.ly/QB2025ShortP...
Attendance is FREE with registration; the symposium runs 11-13 June both in-person at Newcastle University (UK) & online.
Register (by 09 June): bit.ly/QB2025Register
Short Programme: bit.ly/QB2025ShortP...
Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.
May 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.
On a list! And with Henry Hemming and Kate Summerscale, too. Chuffed.
Announcing the longlist for the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction! Congratulations, authors and good luck in the next round! #CWA_Daggers #Daggers_2025
May 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On a list! And with Henry Hemming and Kate Summerscale, too. Chuffed.
Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6
May 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6
Good lord. This collation is becoming deranged. MN?!!
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Good lord. This collation is becoming deranged. MN?!!
Here’s my diary for this month’s Literary Review. Mostly it’s about Julia Donaldson. literaryreview.co.uk/destroy-whil...
Joseph Hone - Destroy While Reading
Joseph Hone: Destroy While Reading
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April 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Here’s my diary for this month’s Literary Review. Mostly it’s about Julia Donaldson. literaryreview.co.uk/destroy-whil...
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I saw this wonderful copy of F1 today at Berkeley (shakespearecensus.org/sc/5202/)
This page looks absolutely normal at a glance. But all the prelims in this copy are facsimile. Normally this would be seen as loss, but these are by the 19th-century master of the art, John Harris. 1/3
This page looks absolutely normal at a glance. But all the prelims in this copy are facsimile. Normally this would be seen as loss, but these are by the 19th-century master of the art, John Harris. 1/3
March 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I saw this wonderful copy of F1 today at Berkeley (shakespearecensus.org/sc/5202/)
This page looks absolutely normal at a glance. But all the prelims in this copy are facsimile. Normally this would be seen as loss, but these are by the 19th-century master of the art, John Harris. 1/3
This page looks absolutely normal at a glance. But all the prelims in this copy are facsimile. Normally this would be seen as loss, but these are by the 19th-century master of the art, John Harris. 1/3
Very happy to have this piece in the new PBSA. Sure it’s a tad provocative in places, but even if people don’t agree on every point, hopefully it will be useful to think with. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Forensic Bibliography | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 1
Abstract This article traces the genealogy of “forensic bibliography” in the Anglophone world from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. It argues that many of the methods and procedures ...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Very happy to have this piece in the new PBSA. Sure it’s a tad provocative in places, but even if people don’t agree on every point, hopefully it will be useful to think with. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?
February 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?
Is there anything more satisfying than completing a set, one volume at a time, over many years and across many second-hand bookshops?
February 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Is there anything more satisfying than completing a set, one volume at a time, over many years and across many second-hand bookshops?
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It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
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January 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Sorry. The WHAT eating house?
January 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Sorry. The WHAT eating house?
Here’s a game. Just filed a review for next month’s @historytoday.com. Who am I talking about?
December 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Here’s a game. Just filed a review for next month’s @historytoday.com. Who am I talking about?
They said it couldn’t be done! All three Reynolds Stone alphabets ready to be mounted and framed.
December 9, 2024 at 12:07 PM
They said it couldn’t be done! All three Reynolds Stone alphabets ready to be mounted and framed.
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Fabulous 2-year fellowship at @theul.bsky.social / @theulspeccoll.bsky.social!
The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History.
Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby
The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History.
Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby
Munby Fellowship
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December 5, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Fabulous 2-year fellowship at @theul.bsky.social / @theulspeccoll.bsky.social!
The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History.
Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby
The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History.
Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby
What a lovely list to be part of!
From Paris to India, King Richard II to the Commonwealth of England, here are our favourite books of 2024 w/ @josephinequinn.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @josephhone.bsky.social @daisydunn.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @alicehunt.bsky.social
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November 29, 2024 at 5:14 PM
What a lovely list to be part of!
Today’s set-up. Will my eyes survive the day?
November 29, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Today’s set-up. Will my eyes survive the day?
@historytoday.com asked for my books of the year: featuring Noel Malcolm and @misswalsingham.bsky.social
#Imperialism and #India, #spies and seafarers, #paganism and the polis: the first 12 of 25 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2024.
📚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚’𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏 𝐧𝐨𝐰
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📚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚’𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏 𝐧𝐨𝐰
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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November 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
@historytoday.com asked for my books of the year: featuring Noel Malcolm and @misswalsingham.bsky.social