Karen Waring

Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Happy Birthday Tracey! 🎉

Now open!

Today's random question:

Anyone know anything about the Brontë novels' readership when they were published? Could I, say, find out who exactly was reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall when it was published in 1848. Women or men? Age group?...

Or failing that, readership of literary novels?

The Open University The UK Reading Experience Database; Open access research project and database based at The Open University, investigates the evidence of reading in Britain from 1450-1945. UK RED contains more than 30...

For individual accounts it might be worth checking the Open University's Reading Experience Database (UKRED). www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading...

Call for papers!

INSCRIPTION 7 (out 2027) will be all about BLANKS. It will be (as ever) a BEAUTIFUL and MAXIMAL object.

Send us your ideas!

Historical / theoretical / creative / creative-critical -- or some strange blend.

First step: 400-word proposal + brief CV by 1 April 2026.

CFP attached.

I’m told that the book has been sent to print and that it’ll be out on 31 March 😭

You really are most welcome! I'm just so glad your wonderful threads remind me that my PhD notes can still be useful (in some small measure)

'A briefe tre[atise,] called Caries fare[well to] physicke: wherein a[re to] be found diuerse rare and [spe]ciall helps for manie ordinarie diseases ...' by Walter Cary (ESTC S4172/STC 4730). It's quite a nice entry for having named authors, a change in phraseology, and slightly awkward penmanship

Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws’ s ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:

“Piser Sioned”

The book belonged to Cadwaladr Davies, a schoolteacher "next to the Dwyryd", near Corwen.

Date: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212

An opportunity to listen to a talk by the wonderful Dr Marian Gwyn

Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations

6pm, 10/2/2026 Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building Bangor University, or join online

For more information:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...

Transcriptions of Sewer Commission records. Example entry, Philip Henslowe to board and fill up six poles of the wharf along Maiden Lane against his playhouse, by Michaelmas, else 15s penalty for each pole not done. ['done']

The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark: Information about Parishioners, from Various Sources, 1550 to 1650.

Fantastic site with a huge amount of transcribed material. Example shown, Sewer Commission records. #LocalHistory #EarlyModern 🗃️ stsaviour.folger.edu/index.html

Update! Alongside the exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social also seeks to appoint a Printer in Residence to produce a contemporary response to the exhibition and to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the project: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @ies-sas.bsky.social

'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.

50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...

(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)

'The worlde possessed with deuils, conteyning three dialogues. ...' by Pierre Viret (ESTC S1159/STC 24785). Printed for John Perin (possibly by Henry Bynneman), 'to bee solde in Paules churchyarde, at the signe of the Angell'. The title gets less exciting as it increases in length

Film Studies - Looking back at Pedro Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar looking back | Showroom Cinema This course celebrates this most important and influential contemporary Spanish filmmaker showing how, despite his reputation for beautiful films and whimsical stories, Almodóvar also addresses Spain’...

I’m running a short course on the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar for The Showroom cinema starting Weds 21 Jan. 4 films & 4 lectures/workshops. @helpsheffield.co.uk showroomcinema.org.uk/festivals/fi...

The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond See the first book in which Caxton was ever involved, one of the books he printed in England, and examples of later genres, typefaces and illustrations for which he paved the way.

‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, a collab between @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social celebrating 550 years of printing in England, opens @senatehouselib.bsky.social on 26 Feb 2026! www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

Alchemical diagram.

New "Book of Magical Charms" just dropped!

Happy New Year from this beautifully rubricated sixteenth-century book of hours (Heures de Nostre Dame, 1558, printed by Plantin). Some great analytical bib. examples here of two-color printing

Two title pages of the same book, showing their likeness.

First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread!

We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!

EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.

[1/16] 📜 💙📚

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

2025 has been quite a challenging year for Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections. We would like to thank you personally for the overwhelming support we’ve received, for your understanding and appreciation of the immense value of the University’s archival collections and its worth to the local community. We are now looking to the future, to working together with all our stakeholders to ensure that we continue to be recognised as one of the finest University archives in Britain - collecting, preserving and providing access to the historic collections that help make Bangor University a unique and special institution for everyone.

Today’s Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAYourArchive

BANGOR UNIVERSITY’S ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

#ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive

Confessions (2025) In September 2025, I invited friends and family members to record themselves reading a 20-second passage from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions (1782).

Confessions (2025) -- a film!

open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...

Should have said, it's 6-8pm on 27th November at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social 🙄

THE 2025-2026 SHANKLAND LECTURES KICK OFF TOMORROW NIGHT

“The Priest and the Poet: Dafydd ap Gwilym and Bangor Cathedral”

Delivered by Dr Sara Elin Roberts, Honorary Professor of Welsh, Bangor University

Wed 19 November 2025
At STORIEL Bangor
13:00pm - 14:00pm

This lecture will be in English.

Tonight: talking about historical redress around cultural riches, property, ownership and use in connection to enslaved people and descendants.

Hello! I’m looking for scholarship on the management of artificial light in early modern workplace environments. Any suggestions most welcome! #earlymodern #bookhistory

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).

Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History