Paul Arblaster
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Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade (8-11 July)
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Don Fadrique de Toledo's report on recapturing the Brazilian city of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos from the Dutch, as published in Antwerp 400 years ago today.
August 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Don Fadrique de Toledo's report on recapturing the Brazilian city of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos from the Dutch, as published in Antwerp 400 years ago today.
News published in Antwerp 400 years ago: the emperor asking for money and supplies for the Hungarian frontier, imperial forces gearing up for the Danish phase of the Thirty Years' War, and a brief mention of the Duke of Savoy being forced onto the defensive by the Republic of Genoa.
August 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
News published in Antwerp 400 years ago: the emperor asking for money and supplies for the Hungarian frontier, imperial forces gearing up for the Danish phase of the Thirty Years' War, and a brief mention of the Duke of Savoy being forced onto the defensive by the Republic of Genoa.
Happy to have been involved in this, in however small a way.
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Women’s business/Businesswomen | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The cliché goes that behind every successful man there is a strong woman. But in the Plantin-Moretus family, women most definitely stood alongside their husbands, and not behind them. From the 13th of...
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August 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Happy to have been involved in this, in however small a way.
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News from 400 years ago: the surrender of Breda.
![NEWS OF THE SURRENDER OF BREDA: Last Saturday, 31 May 1625, those of Breda began to parley for a good agreement to surrender the town to his royal majesty, finding themselves in extreme need. At 9 in the morning on Saturday his excellency Count Henry of Bergh went towards the town with a large entourage of noblemen, with his trumpeters at the front, and arriving beneath [the walls of] the town, remained there quietly. At once the deputies of the town came out in a coach, and there they greeted one another and began discussions for an agreement, which lasted until 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Agreement was reached between the town and the battery, and once it was concluded all returned, leaving mutual hostages. Those within the town demanded many conditions, but not all were granted. At parting the gentlemen congratulated one another festively when taking their leave.
On Sunday, 1 June, the agreement was concluded on condition that those within should depart from the town on Wednesday, 4 June, with arms and baggage, and colours, with all their sick, and they would be provided with wagons for the purpose, so that on Wednesday the wagons were loaded, but as not all was ready the enemy left the town early in the morning on Thursday, 5 June, taking many sick with them, some said 700. Everything was running short in the town, they still had bread for a few days. The governor said that all the citizens who had brought gold and silver from which to strike coin would have the same made good by the States. Square silver coins were struck for two guilders, and some for one guilder the piece, and a copper, with the arms of the town, with the inscription ‘Breda obsessa, 1625’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xzhze6vbawt6p77vqqtalnfg/bafkreiekpel3uz2sulnpkmgiqlkdcmfeftqjum34ofynbr62qvrrfjm7aa@jpeg)
June 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
News from 400 years ago: the surrender of Breda.
Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade (8-11 July)
Registration open for a few more days:
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June 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade (8-11 July)
Registration open for a few more days:
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Registration open for a few more days:
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400 years ago today, news broke in Antwerp that the surrender of Breda was being negotiated.
May 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
400 years ago today, news broke in Antwerp that the surrender of Breda was being negotiated.
Reposted by Paul Arblaster
Leuven is looking for a #BookHistory collection expert and conservator. And I now REALLY wish I had made a move on the plans to get training and accreditation in library and archive work.
Go and get my dreamjob and continuously make me superenvious:
Go and get my dreamjob and continuously make me superenvious:
Collectie-Expert/Conservator
Weet je veel van boekgeschiedenis en zou je graag iets met die kennis doen? Kom dan werken als collectie-expert/conservator in Bijzondere Collecties!
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April 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Leuven is looking for a #BookHistory collection expert and conservator. And I now REALLY wish I had made a move on the plans to get training and accreditation in library and archive work.
Go and get my dreamjob and continuously make me superenvious:
Go and get my dreamjob and continuously make me superenvious:
If anybody knows somebody who would want to teach English skills to (mostly) French-speaking undergraduates in Brussels while carrying out research into some aspect of translation or interpreting: jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
TIMB - Un mandat d'assistant·e (75%) - Traduction/Interprétation anglais langue étrangère (50048594)
TIMB - Un mandat d'assistant·e (75%) - Traduction/Interprétation anglais langue étrangère (50048594)
https://jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelscientifique/job/TIMB-Un-mandat-d'assistant·e-%2875%29-TraductionInterprétation-anglais-langue-étrangère-%2850048594%29/1197526901/
May 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If anybody knows somebody who would want to teach English skills to (mostly) French-speaking undergraduates in Brussels while carrying out research into some aspect of translation or interpreting: jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
News from 400 years ago …
February 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
News from 400 years ago …
Can't remember if I ever got round to sharing this link:
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Call for Papers | Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade: From Tyndale to Plantin | University of Antwerp
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January 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Can't remember if I ever got round to sharing this link:
www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...
www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...
News from 400 years ago.
January 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
News from 400 years ago.
Is it worth sharing these here?
December 7, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Is it worth sharing these here?
Reposted by Paul Arblaster
November 27, 2024 at 3:59 AM
CFP: Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade
Conference (Antwerp University) and display of 16th-century books (Plantin-Moretus Museum)
Antwerp, Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 July 2025
Link to follow when available ...
Conference (Antwerp University) and display of 16th-century books (Plantin-Moretus Museum)
Antwerp, Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 July 2025
Link to follow when available ...
November 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM
CFP: Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade
Conference (Antwerp University) and display of 16th-century books (Plantin-Moretus Museum)
Antwerp, Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 July 2025
Link to follow when available ...
Conference (Antwerp University) and display of 16th-century books (Plantin-Moretus Museum)
Antwerp, Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 July 2025
Link to follow when available ...