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🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians
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Extra! Extra! 📰Catch up on the work happening behind the scenes here at the USTC with the latest Library Quarterly! Click the link to read: ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-library…
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Beware the vipers! Join Philippa Woodcock, postdoc with the USTC, as she explores the development of chemistry books through venom antidotes. Click the link to read more! ustc.ac.uk/news/venom-antido…
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Arthur der Weduwen, co-director of the USTC, has published 'The Last Invasion of England' investigating the Dutch Republics motives behind the daring invasion of England in 1688. Read about how the Dutch utilized print during the campaign at the link! ustc.ac.uk/news/the-print-cu…
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Read our newest blog by undergraduate Gitika Sanjay, who explores a rare printed account of homosexuality in London! Click the link for more: ustc.ac.uk/news/from-the-swe…
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A #solareclipse on 12 August? Sounds familiar! There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best. Pictured are USTC 2635543, 993980, 2561601 and 4041685. #eclipse2026
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St Andrews History@StAndrewsHistAug 10
The School of History offers a supportive and collaborative environment for early career scholars to develop their research careers. For those interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the School, our internal deadline is 5pm on 31 August (1/2)
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢 Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rdCOMLAWEU conference in St Andrews The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2026 #CfP
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Dr Elise Watson@elisewatson_Jul 1
So excited that today is publication day for my @boydellbrewer @CatholicismsEM book! Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/pr…

Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age

Reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age, reconstructing lost works to discover the lived experience of a religious community marginalised within a...

boydellandbrewer.com
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Fancy a riveting tale? Read a story of murder, prostitution, paranoia, and the end of the world! Told by Demi van Breukelen, PhD candidate with the COMLAWEU, through items available via the USTC Check it out here! ustc.ac.uk/news/the-renowned…
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And last, but most certainly not least, its Jeff Cowton (Northumbria University) with ‘Education, Economy, and Engraving: Thomas Bewick's Educational Print in Commercial Context, 1767–1797’ #USTC26
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The final session of the conference is on ‘Specialist Business Models’ and we start with Thomas Noriega (Harvard University), ‘To the University, By the University: Defining the Academic Printer in Seventeenth-Century Leiden’ #USTC26
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And finally, its Ruth Martínez Alcorlo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with ‘Editing Erasmus for Young Students in Mid-16th Century Valencia: the Grammaticus Francesc Joan Mas’ #USTC26
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Up next, its Gabrielle Hamelin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) with ‘Teaching the Scriptures in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Use and Reception of Abbé Claude Fleury’s Catechismo istorico (Venice, 1705)’ #USTC26
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It’s the final day of our conference, and we start with a session on ‘Controversy and Censorship’. Our first paper is from Saba Alkuwari: ‘The efforts and impact of Catholic censorship in controlling the dissemination of Philipp Melanchthon’s educational books’ #USTC26
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And for the last paper of the day, its Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz (University of Wrocław), ‘Printing Devotion, Educating Clergy: D. Henrique’s Editorial Programme in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Évora’ #USTC26
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For our final session of the day, on ‘Confessional Debates in Education’, we start with Gunilla Eschenbach (German Literature Archive Marbach/University of Stuttgart): ‘Rewriting the Catechism: Pietist Pedagogy and Child Agency around 1700’ #USTC26
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Finally, its Jonathan Privett-Mendoza (University of York) with ‘Language and Power: A Critical Examination of the Spanish-Catholic Missionaries' Role in Shaping Filipino Grammars’ #USTC26
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The second paper of this session is ‘Travelling Books for Learning Cyrillic (exemplars of early prints in Britain and Ireland)’ from Oleksandr Okhrimenko (University of Birmingham) #USTC26
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After lunch, we have a session on ‘Vernacular Language Learning’, starting with Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw): ‘Protestants Learning German and Polish: The Printed Tools of Language Instruction in the Central European Borderlands, 1500–1700’ #USTC26
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And the final paper of this session, from Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University/King’s College London), is ‘Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes while organising a transnational Literary Textbooks/Teaching Archive’ #USTC26
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