Counting down to publication of my next Christine de Pizan book starts today! Stay tuned for tidbits over the coming days…

We are pleased to share that Devani Singh's new book, Chaucer's Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript (Cambridge University Press, 2023), is out and available in open access! More details: cambridge.org/core/books/cha…

A provisional cover! The image is part of Manchester, John Rylands, MS Eng. 1 (Lydgate's Troy Book), f. 31v, and it depicts the rebuilding of Troy.

The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for #Chaucer | Editorial theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, is available now from Cambridge University Press !

Bibliographers and book historians affected by the BL cyber-attack: nikolai has built a stopgap English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), fully searchable and comprising a hefty 150,000 pre-1700 records, many with links to EEBO. Spread ye good news! estc.printprobability.org

Thanks so much to everyone who has given to our Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print Crowdunder. As soon as we hit £10,000 an anonymous donor will contribute a further £5000, getting us halfway to our goal. Please donate, and spread the word! yustart.hubbub.net/p/Heritage-Pri…

We're hugely proud of callan davies - his What is a Playhouse? was chosen as one of the Books of the Year 2023 in History Today magazine. It's a 'refreshing' re-examination of 'the economy of fun'. Best seats in the house are here: historytoday.com/archive/review…

Our article is out! Open-access at RES. Co-written by Misha Teramura, @dnmcinnis, and me in shifts around the clock. It was a lot of fun to do. academic.oup.com/res/advance-ar… (1/4)

Just published by UCL Press: Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading, with pieces from Anthony Grafton, Bill Sherman, the late Lisa Jardine, and many excellent others. Wonderfully, the online version is open-access. uclpress.co.uk/products/182702

Summer ‘24 UNIQ+ research internships open to UK undergrads from under-represented / disadvantaged backgrounds: ox.ac.uk/admissions/gra…. 7 wks, free accom, £3K stipend. One of these involves editing Middle English lyrics from MS, with me.

The hugest of thanks to the National Printing Heritage Committee for a very generous £1000 donation to our crowdfunding campaign. We're 85% funded with just three days to go! Can you help us get over the line? Every donation massively welcome! yustart.hubbub.net/p/Heritage-Pri…

We invite early career members to submit their first single-authored book, written in English and published between March 2020 and December 2023, for the SAMEMES Book Prize by 16th March. All relevant details and information can be found in the CfP: unil.ch/files/live/sit…

👀 I’ve read the OA PDF, but today I got to see and hold Sophie Battell’s brilliant book in its bookish form! #RenSA24

Thrilled to find my book, Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers, at Shakespeare Association of America! Thanks CambShakespeare

An overdue update: I finished my database of dedications in Britain from 1641 until 1700! I've now viewed 98,263 books. These are the totals: amount of dedications overall, average of books with dedications, women dedicatees and couple dedicatees, and their average representation

A group of archives are requesting feedback via survey about their efforts to develop a portal for Black British archives and material. Please take a moment to fill out the survey. docs.google.com/forms/d/1UJyn1…

Friends, I’m currently looking to take on more typesetting work over the summer – anything from pamphlets to full books – so if you or anyone you know/work for would like some of that, please do email my fancy new address: [email protected]