Go, litel boke! My new book about old books, Chaucer's Early Modern Readers, is now out with @CUP_LitPerform and thanks to @snsf_ch is free to read online! In it, I follow the trace of Chaucer's 15th c manuscripts into the early modern period https://t.co/fvSUYRIIyh
Friends, I’m currently looking to take on more typesetting work over the summer – anything from pamphlets to full books – so if you or anyone you know/work for would like some of that, please do email my fancy new address: [email protected]
A group of archives are requesting feedback via survey about their efforts to develop a portal for Black British archives and material. Please take a moment to fill out the survey.
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An overdue update: I finished my database of dedications in Britain from 1641 until 1700! I've now viewed 98,263 books.
These are the totals: amount of dedications overall, average of books with dedications, women dedicatees and couple dedicatees, and their average representation
We invite early career members to submit their first single-authored book, written in English and published between March 2020 and December 2023, for the SAMEMES Book Prize by 16th March. All relevant details and information can be found in the CfP: https://t.co/m9hl7vxhS1
The hugest of thanks to the National Printing Heritage Committee for a very generous £1000 donation to our crowdfunding campaign. We're 85% funded with just three days to go!
Can you help us get over the line? Every donation massively welcome!
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Summer ‘24 UNIQ+ research internships open to UK undergrads from under-represented / disadvantaged backgrounds: https://t.co/M6pJeiZ3ZI. 7 wks, free accom, £3K stipend.
One of these involves editing Middle English lyrics from MS, with me.
Just published by UCL Press: Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading, with pieces from @scaliger, @BillSherman_, the late Lisa Jardine, and many excellent others. Wonderfully, the online version is open-access.
https://t.co/EKSiklJdJw
Our article is out! Open-access at RES. Co-written by Misha Teramura, @dnmcinnis, and me in shifts around the clock. It was a lot of fun to do. https://t.co/Ggo4ROCtzN (1/4)
Thanks so much to everyone who has given to our Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print Crowdunder.
As soon as we hit £10,000 an anonymous donor will contribute a further £5000, getting us halfway to our goal. Please donate, and spread the word!
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We're hugely proud of @callanjd - his What is a Playhouse? was chosen as one of the Books of the Year 2023 in History Today magazine.
It's a 'refreshing' re-examination of 'the economy of fun'.
Best seats in the house are here:
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