BOO is an expanding directory of historical book owners, initiated by David Pearson, published by @livesandletters & shaped by its users. Tweets by Mhairi.
It's #InternationalWomensDay2023 on March 8th, so we're going to be sharing women book owners throughout this month. To start us off here's the bookplate of Mary Booth (1704-1772), who was added to BOO through our recent #BOOathon! https://t.co/srCDuqOxbD
We are delighted to announce (free!) tickets are now available to our 2023 online conference: Work in Progress: Growing Libraries, Evolving Libraries.
Check out the panels and get your ticket here: https://t.co/0JLpWoY1o1
Copy of Polydore Vergil’s Adagiorum (Basel, 1521) shared by two Cambridge friends - Christopher Burlingham & Christopher Warner - both from Norfolk & both students @CaiusCollege in the 1580s. @theULSpecColl O*.3.25(C).
New nonjuring and Jacobite book owner on BOO - Donald Macintosh, the last nonjuring priest in Scotland, who bequeathed 1200 volumes to the town of Dunkeld, many of which are full of additional Jacobite provenance! https://t.co/Wm1xVJhm3w
New article: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women.
In this article in the journal “Early Modern Women”, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem discuss learning and knowledge circulation in the early modern period.
https://t.co/hg10llm7L6
The Arms of Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich (1525-1583), on vol.2 of the German reformer Phillip Melanchthon's 'Selectarum declamationum' NLS R.H.S.94 (BOO article coming soon!)