Anna Reynolds

dr of waste (and) paper. hunter of fragments. lecturer of things early modern. be excellent framework officer. sorry that’s my dog barking on Zoom. (she/her)

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

Hi everyone this fragment feels your pain

[Dr Isabella Rosner @IsabellaRosner]

The news is out! I'm thrilled to share that I rediscovered eight 17th-century paper objects made by schoolgirls when @SuttonHouseNT was one of Hackney's many female academies. These paper cuts are an extremely rare example of an art form written about by Hannah Woolley (1/2)

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

Very much enjoying the angry annotations of an early 19C reader who thinks Malone is an ‘audacious despoiler’, possessed by a ‘licentious unauthorised spirit of alteration’. In short, ‘This fellow ought to be hang’d.’

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

The academic fantasy

[evey reidy @evey_reidy]

Early mod. folks — has anyone, to your knowledge, written about the masque depicted in the memorial portrait of Sir Henry Unton? Painted c.1596 - 1606 according to the National Portrait Gallery and showing a masque of Mercury and Diana. My brief search only returns two articles.

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

I own one 17C printed book, and its paper feels very thin/light to me. In the archive tomorrow to make wild guesses about manuscript paper, I guess!

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

Folks who regularly handle both early modern and modern handmade paper: does 100 gsm sound reasonable for a good-quality white paper sheet? More? Less?

*In service of a very exciting but wholly nascent project I hope will get started very soon*

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

Fellow paper nerds, does anyone know a source that specifies the weight of typical early modern paper sizes? I.e, how much a sheet of foolscap, pot, or royal paper might weigh?

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

Fellow paper nerds, does anyone know a source that specifies the weight of typical early modern paper sizes? I.e, how much a sheet of foolscap, pot, or royal paper might weigh?

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

A pleasure to read Victoria Button's review of our 2021 collection *The Paper Trade in Early Modern England* in the most recent Renaissance Quarterly 📖

[LittleApple Bookshop @LittleAppleBook]

The Little Apple Bookshop is 27 years old today! Wow, that means we must both have been 14 years old when we opened it. Impressive, huh? The Maths doesn't lie! 🎂🤔🧮 🪇

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@paul_salzman Very excited to read more about this in the future! I don't suppose there are any hints you've come across of women re-using almanacs as waste? I expect it must have been quite common, but so rare for any evidence of such ephemeral practices to have survived...

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@eoin_price @GreenWill92 Seconded!

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@shakedsetc So beautiful! These 'laminate' bindings are very common in the sixteenth century. I believe in the seventeenth century pulpboard becomes more common (when the waste paper is pulped and reconstituted into boards).

[shakedsetc @shakedsetc]

One nice little touch is though the front board is ripped, it allows you to see that it was made of compressed sheets of discarded pages from other books.

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@abbiegarrington @LizzieSwann1 😊

[Helen Smith @conversiontales]

Are you interested in #rot? Join me and the fabulous
@atarbuck for a fun afternoon of deliquescence and decay! Please spread the word: we want to be omnidisciplinary, & warmly welcome all pertinent (& some impertinent) contributions.

https://t.co/GSQa84kv3F

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@MarieAllitt Oh dear god 🤮

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

Good news, the Higher Education Academy has confirmed that, after many years of doing it, I can in fact teach.

(I am now a Fellow of the above)

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@madeline_cct I study when books get wasted and thrown away, and there's a certainly type of person who finds the idea of a 'prestigious' (i.e. old) book being recycled or reused painful and offensive 🙄

[Anna Reynolds @torcheculs]

@Tamarajatkin I discovered my great-great grandfather was a 'Calender Man', which I believe is part of the industrial papermaking process. Book history is obviously part of DNA! 😂