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Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T) at Glasgow

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Are you a student at the @uofgied.bsky.social? We’re recruiting a Science Communicator Intern for a project with @howtobooks.bsky.social and the Glasgow Science Festival. Bringing Early Modern science to the age of TikTok videos.

Come join us!

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WE ARE HIRING!

If you're a student @glasgow.ac.uk or know someone who is, you may be interested in an internship opportunity to help design and carry out a public engagement activity at Glasgow Science Festival.

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#science #sciencefestival #GlaSciFest

📚 In our latest blog post, Stefan Laube reflects on a recent workshop on 'Knowing How! The Transmission of Practical Knowledge in the Middle Ages' at the Herzog August Bibliothek

Read more here 👇
howtobook.hypotheses.org/6036

New on the blog: @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the unique materiality of a rare surving copy of a recipe book by the famous 'authress' Hannnah Woolley 🎂

Read more here 👇

howtobook.hypotheses.org/6000

#recipes #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern

Tearing off Time. The Tyranny of the Daily Life Hack. The year 2026 is already nearly two months old – and yet it feels lighter, more unburdened than the last. Why? Because my life is no longer measured by a tear-off calendar. It did not blink. It did no...

"Perhaps the greatest life hack of all is to stop reducing the world to mere utility, and instead to dwell in life’s quiet, unruly, exquisite imperfection"

Words of wisdom from Stefan Laube in our latest blog post - read more here 👇

howtobook.hypotheses.org/5869

In our latest blog post, Alina Lange explores the material, sensory-affective world of early modern pattern books 🧵

Read more here 👉 howtobook.hypotheses.org/5815

#crafts #needlework #earlymodern #bookhistory

New our blog, @jamesafox.bsky.social on Robert Burns and the how-to of barrel gauging 📏🛢📖🍺

howtobook.hypotheses.org/5697

#bookhistory #robertburns #taxes

📚 What made plants undesirable according to #earlymodern how-to books?

In our latest #blog Stefan Laube explores household books on the practice of weeding 🌿

howtobook.hypotheses.org/5594

Pleased to see this out in the open at last 😀

📚 New on our blog, @jamesafox.bsky.social in search of how-to Sammelbände...

howtobook.hypotheses.org/5519

#bookhistory #booksky

Thames firework 1749 with music from Handel, Public Domain, Wikimedia

#Fireworks shifted from expert knowledge at court to bourgeois #DIY & finally to mass consumption. What was once controlled craft & symbolic order is now a deregulated spectacle with social, ecological & psychological costs.

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#EverydayHistory @howtobooks.bsky.social

In our latest blog post, Clément Poupard discusses his research on early modern memory manuals, which he shared at our recent workshop on 'Body - Health - Home' at the Herzog August Bibliothek.

👉 Find out more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4960

Last week we ran a 2-day workshop at the Herzog August Bibliothek on the theme of 'Body-Health-Home', featuring a host of great papers, a 17th-century salad reconstruction, and, of course, some amazing how-to books 📚

Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4800

#bookhistory #library #workshop

Lucy Havard (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) on Early Modern household compilations for the preservation of the body. Putting the surgeon’s word into practical context…

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@uofgartshums.bsky.social

Medieval manuscript

Making a medieval manuscript was an artful process that required many types of specialised knowledge.

Our latest article by @guyfassler.bsky.social is a catalogue of everything you need to know about making medieval books that would last a millennium.
scilicet.org.uk/everything-y... #skystorians

An etching of the Royal Fireworks display on the Thames, London, England 1749

🎆Happy #GuyFawkesDay!

Before and after the 1605 gunpowder plot, fireworks were an important part of celebrations. But what were they made of?

In our latest article, @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the fascinating book that taught the art of making fire

scilicet.org.uk/before-and-a... #Skystorians

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

👀 Want to find out more about our project?

Team members Alina Lange and Stefan Laube recently appeared on the Herzog August Library podcast to discuss the fascinating world of early modern how-to books.

👉 Listen along (in German) here: www.hab.de/podcast-22-v...

#bookhistory #libraries #podcast

What is the history of knowledge? | Scilicet Scilicet is a blog dedicated to the history of knowledge. In the broadest terms, we’re interested in what people in the past knew, what it meant to know things, and what we as historians can learn abo...

This week we have a special article in which we share our thoughts about the History of Knowledge and what it means to us.
It was great fun to write and we hope you will find it thought provoking!
#skystorians #historyofknowledge
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The #cfp deadline for our 2026 conference on 'Print and Education is now just under 2 months away!!

If anyone would like to discuss a proposal with me, feel free to get in touch.

#bookhistory #Education #conference

Get involved! If you are interested in contributing to the project by sharing your books, please feel free to email the editor, Charlotte Epple, at cepple[at]sdu.dk. You can contribute by filling in the Crowdsource...

Tell me about your woman-owned books! Submit them via the survey below.
✔️ printed before 1900
✔️ contains evidence of female ownership (a signature e.g.)
#bookhistory
#crowdsourcing
#womenshistory

Thomas Simpson (1710–1761)

In our latest article, @jamesafox.bsky.social charts the meteoric rise and eventual decline of #18thcentury mathematician 🧮 Thomas Simpson.

👉 Read more here: scilicet.org.uk/becoming-a-m...

#history #mathematics #skystorians

You're probably right! Ornamentation like that would've been almost impossible with movable type, so this is likely some kind of wood block technique.

Amazing, isn't it!?!

Title page of Ein köstlich new kochbuck (1598)

In our latest blog post, intern Sandrine Hoppe explores the earliest known recipe book authored by a woman in vernacular German, Anna Wecker's Ein köstlich new kochbuck (1598)

howtobook.hypotheses.org/4596

#bookhistory #cookbook #blog

Leon Battista Alberti, (possibly) Self-Portrait, c. 1435

🤔 Is it better to learn from the wisdom of the ancients or from your experience gained over time?

📚 In our latest blog post, @guyfassler.bsky.social explores a 15th-century Tuscan dialogue debating that very question...
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#bookhistory #medieval #knowledge

🐝 Beekeeping was a staple of early modern how-to books. A new blog post by @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the changing tone of English apicultural books...

#beekeeping #bookhistory

🚨 New publication from our Research Associate @jamesafox.bsky.social

#bookhistory

In our latest #blog post, Stefan Laube explores the role of #how-to knowledge in the long span of human history

Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4498