Early modern Historian @Cambridge_Uni, Bye Fellow @downingcollege and Senior Member @Newnham_College Interested in all things bibles and bookish!
Cambridge, England
Joined January 2019
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AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW:
'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25.00
A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller
Coming September 2026 - tinyurl.com/2p3cdmwp
Splendid to have been part of such a dramatic retelling of Tyndale's life and the story of the English Bible!
A documentary celebrating God’s providence throughout the history of English Bible translation—from William Tyndale’s 1526 New Testament to the English Standard Version Bible.
youtube.com/watch?v=OgCjMLNt…
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A documentary celebrating God’s providence throughout the history of English Bible translation—from William Tyndale’s 1526 New Testament to the English Standard Version Bible.
youtube.com/watch?v=OgCjMLNt…
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Editor copies of Stuart Serenissima!
Featuring our beautiful cover image: the Earl of Manchester’s arrival in Venice, 1707/8, by Luca Carlevarijs (courtesy of the wonderful @BM_AG)
Available here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.… .
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A piece for @EngelsbergIdeas on my old favourite Catherine of Siena - underrated political thinker and icon of Renaissance art.
engelsbergideas.com/portrait…
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To celebrate my @WolfsonHistory shortlisting, you can now get special signed copies of ‘Silence of the Gods’ from @CUPBookshop in Cambridge at the special price of £20, or online with free UK delivery! cambridgebookshop.co.uk/prod… 📚
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Now out!! 🥂
Out next week! Stuart Serenissima: Venice & England in the Seventeenth Century, edited by Alana Mailes & me
With exciting new essays from Carol Rutter, @stefanovil, Filippo de Vivo, Antonio Iodice, Christina Anderson, Benjamin Woodford & Amy Dunagin
liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
Delighted to be speaking about my latest research into quantum thermodynamics!
Ah, no, it is of course me on William Tyndale again.
500 yrs on, what is the legacy of Tyndale's New Testament of 1526 and how has it been collected, used and edited over the years... @Tyndale_House
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William Tyndale's conviction was that the Bible deserved the very best scholarship, and that ordinary people should benefit from it.
This week on our podcast, Harry Spillane joins us to explore 500 years of Tyndale’s legacy.
YouTube & podcast platforms | 2pm ET; 7pm BST
490 yrs ago today, William Tyndale was strangled and burned, having produced the English New Testament we celebrate 500 yrs of in 2026
His is a story that shows the messiness of the early English Reformation and it opens my own study of how the English Bible became a bestseller
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Out next week! Stuart Serenissima: Venice & England in the Seventeenth Century, edited by Alana Mailes & me
With exciting new essays from Carol Rutter, @stefanovil, Filippo de Vivo, Antonio Iodice, Christina Anderson, Benjamin Woodford & Amy Dunagin
liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
How fitting that my episode on Tyndale with
@onthetudortrail arrives on #internationaltranslationday
Tyndale's NT was the first to translate from Greek to English, and his Pentateuch the first from Hebrew.
Listen to learn more about Tyndale's life here:
youtube.com/watch?v=UsuG00xm…
Great to see this from @_Tim_Ashton of @SoultonHall
Sir Rowland Hill is one of those overlooked figures in English Bible History who deserves more attention. There is still much to uncover about the financing of early Elizabethan Bibles by energetic reforming figures like him
Great to see 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' in such great company within @finebooks September Roundup of new books
History of Bookselling, Selling the Bible, and A Librarian’s Memoir: September Books Roundup
finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
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History of Bookselling, Selling the Bible, and A Librarian’s Memoir: September Books Roundup
finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
How wonderful to see copies out in the wild @Tim_Schmalz
Congratulations @SpillaneHarry on 'Selling the Word of God', beautifully published by @BodPublishing! So great to pick up my copy today from @bodleianshop at @bodleianlibs!
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Congratulations @SpillaneHarry on 'Selling the Word of God', beautifully published by @BodPublishing! So great to pick up my copy today from @bodleianshop at @bodleianlibs!
'Selling the Word of God' is also being distributed in the US via @UChicagoPress:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
A generous review from David Smith has also just been published:
tandfonline.com/toc/rbje20/c…
OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
Pictured here @EmmaCambridge beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @Newnham_College table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing
bodleianshop.co.uk/products/…
OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
Pictured here @EmmaCambridge beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @Newnham_College table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing
bodleianshop.co.uk/products/…
Published with @BodPublishing following a fellowship with @bodleianlibs @RareBooksOfBod
Drawing on PhD research into Bible publishing at
@Cambridge_Uni @EModCam @CamHistory @Peterhouse_Cam
Completed whilst Munby Fellow in Bibliography at
@theUL @theULSpecColl @DarwinCollege
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“English Bibles were like buses: the English waited a millennium for one, and then two came along at once.”
— Harry Spillane, Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible (Bodleian, 2026)
Via this review (free access): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…