Computational analysis of book descriptions: placement project A PhD placement reflects on her time at the British Library and her research in using computational analysis on early printed book descriptions.

A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

How awful. I am so sorry.

Happy for, inspired by and proud of @luisacale.bsky.social and her stunning inaugural lecture today. Watched a dear friend reach a career milestone and a truly intermedial scholar share her latest trailblazing work in book history and visual culture. Congratulations Professor Calè!

Liber Studiorum: thinking about the serial formalism produced by book formats through #Turner digressions as I get ready for my talk tomorrow: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

This may not be as striking a headline as immediate redundancies in the triple figures, but it is as impactful in overturning what academia is.

The consultancies are removing research from education, taking the bite out of what university is and does.

Exodus: Reading for the Images in & out of Books -- How is the Exodus narrative questioned & challenged by pictures? #Turner, #Blake, an 1880s half-tone of an exhumed #mummy as a head vignette at the beginning of Exodus. Join us in-person in London or online on 26/3. Book here: shorturl.at/pxGAm

A dream of nine nights: so looking forward to hearing about #Blake's The Four Zoas through the eyes of a contemporary artist @blakesociety.bsky.social

Off to see some #Turner sketchbooks on Thursday, so I am looking for inspiring essays about the #sketchbook as a cultural form and material support for invention. Please send recommendations

I don't think so, sadly, but I will do a panel at Birkbeck on 27 Feb, which I will try to offer in hybrid mode.

Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org

Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London
@ies-sas.bsky.social

@bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social
please spread the word

The Book Unbound Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Book Unbound

OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Thank you: a lot of the thinking happened in the Bodleian, of course!

Looking forward to discussing printmakers' book forms with printmaker and book artist Marina Bindella in Rome tomorrow. This is the first outing of my monograph The Book Unbound, coming out universitypress.cambridge.org on 8 January. @blakesociety.bsky.social @blakequarterly.bsky.social

How odd to bump into #Blake's life mask at the National Portrait Gallery on the day he died

Thank you, @drbibliomane.bsky.social: I did not know about Augustin Daly's extra-illustrated books at Harvard. I must make sure to come and see them next time I am in Boston, I hope soon.

follow serpentine paths: will Eternity swallow 'the vast / Leviathan, the Bubbles vain, that ride / High on the foaming Billow'? This #Blake watercolour @britishmuseum.bsky.social sees a scaly green man riding his glorious green serpent up from the bottom of the sea around Edward Young's words...

Birkbeck film brings hidden history of Victorian art-workman to light Thanks to funding from Birkbeck’s Research Innovation Fund, supported by alumni donations, the legacy of Victorian art-workman David Parr has been brought to life in The Man Who Painted His House, a s...

Delighted to announce my new short film made in partnership with Lily Ford, Richard Uttley and the David Parr House!
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbecklibrary.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social

www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbec...

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'.

ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

a dream opportunity!

My aunt's gooseberry fool: a recipe from English childhood holidays.

what I am working on today, thinking about serpentine formations in #Blake's trees for bsky.app/profile/abda... and bsky.app/profile/dran... #LiteraryArboretum

Sorting my papers, looking back and looking forward, still thinking about the metaphors and material forms that shape the #sibyl's prophetic leaves #TheBookUnbound

Not medieval or Renaissance, but Gillian Russell's _The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century_ is amazing. Or you could pre-order the new book by @luisacale.bsky.social , _The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting_, which will soon be knocking all our socks off.

Tonight at Birkbeck Arts Week: "The Man who painted his house": join @drvickymills.bsky.social, Derek Jarman Lab film maker Lily Ford, composer Richard Uttley for a screening and discussion about Victorian Art Labourer David Parr's House
Birkbeck Cinema, 6pm: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....

@drkarinkoehler.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social @drvickymills.bsky.social @cncsi.bsky.social

Not to be missed:
'The Man who painted his house':
#Victorian Art-Labourer David Parr
An essay film screening & panel discussion
Birkbeck Cinema, 7 May
#BBKArtsWeek

Save the date for the Great CECS book sale on 16 & 17 May! We’re raising funds to support the research of our brilliant postgraduate community at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Not in York in those dates? You can still lend your support; full details at spsr.me/6Gxx

Arts Week is coming: join us for an exciting range of events showcasing what we do, from essay films in collaboration with the Derek Jarman Lab in our Cinema to theatre scratch nights, exhibitions, workshops, debates, & much more
6-9 May, Gordon Sq, London: www.bbk.ac.uk/annual-event...

Fabulous panel on craft culture. I wish I could be there. Will it be streamed/recorded, @amyeelkins.bsky.social?

Detail of page 34 of Night Thoughts (1797), colored copy BB, Essick collection

Our latest issue to become free to read is spring 2020
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...,
which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.