Harry Spillane

Early modern Historian @Cambridge_Uni, Bye Fellow @downingcollege and Senior Member @Newnham_College Interested in all things bibles and bookish!

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW:

'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25.00

A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller

Coming September 2026 - https://t.co/LQb7JXB4WC

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

For American friends, I am pleased to announce that 'Selling the Word of God' is being distributed by the University of Chicago Press ($40)

Do pre-order your copy from:
https://t.co/h1jU02EXNz

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW:

'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25.00

A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller

Coming September 2026 - https://t.co/LQb7JXB4WC

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

A pleasure to talk Tyndale at the 'Big Ideas by the Sea' festival in Scarborough.

The festival is a great initiative and allows for a day of talks and music followed by seaside walks and fish & chips...what more could you want!

https://t.co/29E0rWK5Wf

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Today the Church of England recalls the Northumbrian monk and scholar the Venerable Bede.

Bede was of special interest to sixteenth-century polemicists and antiquarians, particularly Archbishop Matthew Parker. Read on to see why....

https://t.co/tHo84CJw3R

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

@DrFrancisYoung @briankeepsworth A stitched version of the 1633 Wicked Bible's command that 'thou shalt commit adultery' perhaps?

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Published with @BodPublishing following a fellowship with @bodleianlibs @RareBooksOfBod

Drawing on PhD research into Bible publishing at @Cambridge_Uni @EModCam @CamHistory @Peterhouse_Cam

Completed whilst Munby Fellow in Bibliography at @theUL @theULSpecColl @DarwinCollege

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW:

'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25.00

A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller

Coming September 2026 - https://t.co/LQb7JXB4WC

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

@JonathanBaddley An excellent piece - well done!

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Do tune in next week to hear about William Tyndale's legacy, the 'rediscovery of Tyndale', and Francis Fry's enormous Bible collection 📖📖📖

[Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House]

If you can't wait until next week for the final episode of our series on William Tyndale, hear Harry Spillane explain how, even as Tyndale’s name faded from memory over time, his words continue to ripple through centuries—shaping the very translations we hold in our hands today.

[Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House]

If you can't wait until next week for the final episode of our series on William Tyndale, hear Harry Spillane explain how, even as Tyndale’s name faded from memory over time, his words continue to ripple through centuries—shaping the very translations we hold in our hands today.

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Lots of content on prayer book worship in early modern England, bible plurality and translation practices for followers of @prayerbook_soc @biblesociety @CambUP_Religion

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

'Every shop hath Bibles of diverse translations', John Boys noted in the 1610s

What was the result of many English Bible translations circulating in early modern England? How did worship function when the Prayer Book used older translations?

Join on Friday at 4pm to see! 📔

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Very much looking forward to speaking on whether you can have too many bibles and what this meant for Prayer Book worship in early modern England.

Do join the seminar @EmmanuelCollege this Friday at 4pm! I can promise lots of pernickety puritan pedantry...

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Very much looking forward to speaking on whether you can have too many bibles and what this meant for Prayer Book worship in early modern England.

Do join the seminar @EmmanuelCollege this Friday at 4pm! I can promise lots of pernickety puritan pedantry...

[Cambridge Early Modernists @EModCam]

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar:
Harry Spillane (Cambridge) ��� 'Too Many Bibles? Religious Uniformity, English Scripture and the Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1662'
4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 27 February; in Gulliver Room, Emmanuel College

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Pictured above is the Lévy family at La Baule c. 1930 with Gaston Lévy on the left. They are joined by the artist Paul Signac (stood next to Gaston) whose work Lévy collected and catalogued. Photograph courtesy of the Signac Archives.

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

🚨Not Bibles!🚨 In a surprising turn of events I have published with Peter Elliott on looted art and the remarkable life of Gaston Lévy (1893-1977)

Looted art, fraud, criminal trials, and some delightful paintings along the way. It is a gripping story...

https://t.co/QhKMB21mLg

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Librarians @theUL @theULSpecColl have been shocked to deliver trolleys of French nudes in place of the usual Bishops' Bibles and Tyndale Testaments...don't worry, back to them I go...

@Cambridge_Uni @CamHistory

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

Save the date! 📚
'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblecollfuture conference on 26 & 27 Sept will bring together scholars and technical experts who have worked with the collection for papers, discussions, and a hands-on workshops
https://t.co/Cdn80mQ86k

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

Do join us @CRASSHlive on 26th & 27th September for an event showcasing research into the Bible Society Collections and discussing its future

@Cambridge_Uni @theUL @biblesociety

Papers can be submitted until August 25th and registration opens shortly

[Future of Research in Bible Society Collections @biblecollfuture]

Has your research delved into the Bible Society Collections
@theULSpecColl ? Share your ideas at our conference on September 26th-27th! Our extended CfP submission date is now August 25th. https://t.co/sHIdBXs1SW

[Durham History of Catholicism @histcatholic]

@EilishGregory has worked with colleagues in @durham_uni's Special Collections to launch a pop-up exhibition showcasing the collections of the Little Company of Mary, and welcomed their international leadership team to its opening #twitterstorians #history #catholicism #nuntastic

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

Heritage science analysis by the UL & @QMUL_HSS has uncovered secrets in 16th-century Great Bibles!

Once owned by Henry VIII & Thomas Cromwell, these Bibles are reunited for the first time in 500 years at a new @NLWales exhibition.

Find out more: https://t.co/lnofS7vLAS

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

A write up of our wonderful 'Great Bible Exhibition' and the scientific analysis carried out on the two stunning presentation copies made for Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell @theUL @NLWales @stjohnscam @QMUL @HiPS_Project

Such a joy to spend time with these books!

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

@QMUL_HSS @NLWales The Hidden in Plain Sight project team were given a rare opportunity to analyse the copies side-by-side, revealing new details into how they were used as tools of propaganda in the Tudor Court.

The project is funded by @ahrcpress.

@stjohnscam