A chapel with an altar on which a screen placed and Andrew Pettegree speaking to a group of conference participants with his lecture “Bookselling in Early Modern Europe”

Panoramic view of the room of the lecture: the Grauwzusters Chapel filled with people

Kicking off our #TudorAntwerp conference with a keynote lecture of renowned book historian @apettegree.bsky.social! No better start for our #earlymodern #bookhistory conference in this wonderful historical setting 💙📚📜

Some fabulous discoveries here from the National Library in Edinburgh.

The display window at a bookstore. Written on the window is the phrase "...is a home of invention" Books displayed include "The Roads to Roam" and "The Book at War."

Greetings @cathfletcher.bsky.social and @apettegree.bsky.social
I've been traveling in New Zealand and I thought you might be happy to hear that not only are your new books on sale here, they are next to each other in the shop's front window at Scorpio books in Christchurch.

We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

In this order: USTC, KVV, followed by VD16-18. Good luck

Me sitting next to big books.

With so many new followers, I guess it's time for an updated #introduction: Hi there! I am an #earlymodern historian with a weak spot for all things communication and media. My next book is about news flows. Here is a photo of me sitting silent next to books. Most used #: #bookhistory 🗃️ #skystorians

A tour of our stand at the Stuttgart book fair.

A page from the incunable "Der f°uszpfadt tz°u der ewigen seligkeyt/ diß Büchlein genant ist", from 1489 Heidelberg [GW 10429]. An armed knight sits on a horse. The missing lance has been drwan into the print by a later owner or user of the book. Source: http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/fusspfad1494/0057

When you printed a glorious knight late at night in 1489, and woke up to notice that you forgot the lance ...

#earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading

Timely —- @apettegree.bsky.social

Scilicet's own @jamesafox.bsky.social has published an article in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social - check it out here

What an incredible and productive week we have had at the @gladlib.bsky.social ! Loads of annotations achieved, a huge chunk of Introduction drafted. Still loads to do mind, but very happy already about the achievements of the ’eldest daughters editing club’.

Absolutely.

Thanks for the great starter pack!

Screenshot of an article: 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England'. Abstract: 'This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions submitted to the magistrates across fifteen jurisdictions with “sessions of the peace” in England, with nearly 1,000 dating from before 1640. Over the course of the early seventeenth century many, if not most, English parishes witnessed attempts to persuade the authorities through collective petitioning. Groups of neighbors across the kingdom formulated their grievances, organized subscription lists, and articulated their own role in the polity as “the inhabitants” or “the parishioners” of a particular community. In so doing, they not only directly shaped their own “little commonwealths” but also unintentionally helped to develop habits of political mobilization in a crucial period of English history.'

My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social!

#OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

A detail from an etching of 1761 showing a boy serving coffee. The full image is titled "Der Buchdrucker". Source: http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=j-w-meil-ab3-0040

Coffee, anyone?

The year is 1761 and this boy is carefully serving coffee to the workers in an #earlymodern print shop.

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Sinclair Lewis's brilliant book, published in 1935, imagines what happens when the United States drops FDR in favour of a populist. Well worth a read in these troubled times.