When our whippet lost his buddy greyhound , after 4 years together, he definitely lost some of his confidence.

Ooo - this looks interesting!

Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/
#victorian #bookhistory

Maybe it's all right, though. 03:36 S02E06 The Plague 12 April 1996

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

32:28 A Christmassy Ted 24 December 1996

What I'm poking at is: I have been preoccupied by the reality that we use bibliographic data that describes objects to try and surface the work of humans. This is because the world of British print has been accounted for through library catalogs, which structure info around physical description.

Additionally, 566 Titles (~3%) are associated only with women authors *and* women-run book trade businesses, according to the language on the objects.

In the grand scheme that number over 130 years isn't a lot, but isn't delightful to know there are 566 books with only women's names out and about?

There are 18,400 Titles in the database, and 839 records of book trade businesses that were run by women.

1790 or about 9.7% of the Titles are associated with *only* women-run businesses, according to the objects themselves. Many of these women used their initials rather than whole names.

‘Keep the world away!’

It’s quite rough and there was some make ready and experimentation with paper types, inking, and pressure. But as I said, for a first go and given the relative simplicity of the press I’m very pleased.

Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.

Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....

Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

As promised. Quite proud of my first go with the BookBeetle. But I’ll have to solve the shortage of numerals (I found out too late and had to use a different typeface 🙄)

24:48 S02E07 Leaves April 13 2001

Champion Black Boxers and businessmen in 1800s London In advance of the blue plaque in Trafalgar Square, a film/talk on Bill and Tom and the real history in TV hits like Bridgerton,1000 Blows

We're in a big auditorium at UCL on Weds for Champion Black Boxers and Businessmen in 1800s London - talk, film, panel, about Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Bridgerton, A Thousand Blows!

Join Tony Warner, Roberto Nigro, Luke G. Williams, S. I. Martin & me:

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This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

‘Taking the engagements’?

I want to say ‘contracts’ - it’s not that but I’m sure the word had a similar sense.

Damn can’t bring it to mind either!

A closeup of a Black dog, probably a schnauzer/poodle mix although the owner never did a DNA test, with gray around his muzzle and eyes, his nose prominent in the photo, in a backyard with a contented look on his face that says "hey can I have a pretzel?"

Otis is here to say hello for National Pet Day and to remind you to show some extra love to your senior pets today, they deserve it ❤️

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Here it is (photo from previous visit).

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I didn’t think I had the strength but I was so glad I pushed on - well worth it.

There’s a possible connection between The Drover’s Inn and Daniel Defoe which I should blog about one day. #18thC

Below is the Drover’s Inn, established c1705 and one of my all-time fav pubs.

More Scotland holiday stuff. Dead chuffed with myself having made it up v steep and rocky path to Ben Glas waterfall, at the top of Loch Lomond.

Persuasive takedown of the recent HEPI report in Wonkhe.

Frontispiece to Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets. Black and white engraving of a woman in a white gown stands in a moonlit forest, looking upwards at the moon, with an owl perched above her on a book.

Women poets of the long eighteenth-century took so much inspiration from the moon. Here is our attempt at a brief poetic lunar miscellany: (1/8)