Michael Durrant
@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social
Lecturer in Book History at IES. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills, out soon with MUP (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/#generate-pdf). Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Many thanks to @ies-sas.bsky.social graduate, Zachary Larsen, Charlotte Miller, and all the team @quaritch1847.bsky.social for welcoming our MA cohort so warmly today!
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Many thanks to @ies-sas.bsky.social graduate, Zachary Larsen, Charlotte Miller, and all the team @quaritch1847.bsky.social for welcoming our MA cohort so warmly today!
Finally got to see The Nature of Gothic exhibition (and the small corner I got to curate). Go visit Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery before it closes on 13 December! #bookhistory @ies-sas.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Finally got to see The Nature of Gothic exhibition (and the small corner I got to curate). Go visit Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery before it closes on 13 December! #bookhistory @ies-sas.bsky.social
Yesterday’s Reading Matters salon at English: Shared Futures, sponsored by @ies-sas.bsky.social and @univeng.bsky.social No pics of the Reading Matters panel as I was chairing, but brill papers by @lisablowerwrite.bsky.social Carina Spaulding @readingagency.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Yesterday’s Reading Matters salon at English: Shared Futures, sponsored by @ies-sas.bsky.social and @univeng.bsky.social No pics of the Reading Matters panel as I was chairing, but brill papers by @lisablowerwrite.bsky.social Carina Spaulding @readingagency.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social
A few more pics from Anatomy of the Book last week, ft. guest sessions with Karen Attar, Giles Mandelbrote, and David Pearson 📚
June 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A few more pics from Anatomy of the Book last week, ft. guest sessions with Karen Attar, Giles Mandelbrote, and David Pearson 📚
Day 2 of Anatomy of the Book LRBS short course @ies-sas.bsky.social . Today we’ve had a visit to St Bride and a printing demo with Richard Lawrence
June 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Day 2 of Anatomy of the Book LRBS short course @ies-sas.bsky.social . Today we’ve had a visit to St Bride and a printing demo with Richard Lawrence
Hercules has a pot to piss in
June 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hercules has a pot to piss in
There’s postgraduate webinar for the @ies-sas.bsky.social MA in the History of the Book taking place on Monday 24 Feb at 12pm! You can sign up here: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There’s postgraduate webinar for the @ies-sas.bsky.social MA in the History of the Book taking place on Monday 24 Feb at 12pm! You can sign up here: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Thanks to @lucyvinten.bsky.social and the British Jesuit Archives for introducing the @ies-sas.bsky.social students to your collections today!
February 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thanks to @lucyvinten.bsky.social and the British Jesuit Archives for introducing the @ies-sas.bsky.social students to your collections today!
Thanks to the Royal College of Surgeons in England for welcoming the @ies-sas.bsky.social MA cohort earlier this week 🫁🫀🧠📚
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thanks to the Royal College of Surgeons in England for welcoming the @ies-sas.bsky.social MA cohort earlier this week 🫁🫀🧠📚
IES are once again offering the Maggs Scholarship, an award generously funded by Maggs Bros., which covers the fees to study our History of the Book MA/MRes. Applicants who would not normally be able to study at IES due to financial / personal difficulties are especially encouraged to apply!
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
IES are once again offering the Maggs Scholarship, an award generously funded by Maggs Bros., which covers the fees to study our History of the Book MA/MRes. Applicants who would not normally be able to study at IES due to financial / personal difficulties are especially encouraged to apply!
Some pics from this week’s @ies-sas.bsky.social visit to the National Art Library at the V@A (inc. original manuscript copy of Bleak House and an unfinished Book of Hours) #historyofthebook
January 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Some pics from this week’s @ies-sas.bsky.social visit to the National Art Library at the V@A (inc. original manuscript copy of Bleak House and an unfinished Book of Hours) #historyofthebook
Looking at some 📚 at Sotheby’s @ies-sas.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Looking at some 📚 at Sotheby’s @ies-sas.bsky.social
Some pics from yesterday’s IES trip to @innertemplelibrary.bsky.social , and our later seminar on conservation @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Some pics from yesterday’s IES trip to @innertemplelibrary.bsky.social , and our later seminar on conservation @thelondonarchives.bsky.social