In celebration of #NationalNumeracyDay, a quick thread of 18th-century figures who struggled with numeracy at school, but went on to lead rich numerical lives 🧮👇 First up, Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), best known as an author, inventor and Founding Father of the US. 1/7

We're excited to announce the launch of Scilicet, a blog dedicated to the history of knowledge, run by @GuyFassler, Natalie Smith and James Fox. You can find out more about us here scilicet.org.uk/about

Chapter writing, and I find this image from The spiritvall conquest in five treatises (1651, USTC 3065879) really compelling, but I'm not sure who these people are meant to be--if they're even real people at all! If anyone has any leads, I would appreciate hearing of them!

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON!📢 Thank you to all of you who came to 'Print in Archives'! We are delighted to announce the #CfP for our next conference 'Newspapers and Periodicals', co-organised by Zachary Brookman (he/him), Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen #USTC25

📢 START SPREADING THE NEWS 🗞️Thrilled to be co-organising next year’s Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 conference on all things print and periodicals in the early modern era. #cfp below! 👇👇

🚨🚨 Just over a month to get your proposals in!! 🚨🚨

Looking forward to getting started! Proposals due next month!!! 📢 St Andrews History

Beyond thrilled to have my FIRST EVER article published, and in Library & Information History no less! Come for the illustrated donors' register, stay for the pie charts and bar graphs! S/o to Books & Borrowing, 1750-1830 for putting on such an excellent conference and making this possible!

It was a pleasure to co-edit this, along with Kit Baston and Katie Halsey, with articles by Dr Jessica G. Purdy, Zachary Brookman (he/him), Dr Elise Watson, @maxinebranagh, and @ScotsAntiquary. Enjoy! (thanks to Jill Dye and LIH for making it happen!)

JUST UNDER 2 WEEKS TO GET YOUR PROPOSALS IN! In-person AND online presentations welcome! Open to PGs in history and related disciplines!

Now that the news is public, I’m absurdly excited to share that I’ve been awarded a The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Edinburgh for a transnational project on collaborations between women at all levels of the early modern book trade! thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…

**CFP EXTENDED** You now have until the **30 AUGUST** to get your proposals in to us!

EXTENSION - STILL TIME TO GET YOUR PROPOSALS IN!

ONE WEEK TO GET YOUR PROPOSALS IN! Can't wait to hear about your work! St Andrews Early Modern Workshop St Andrews History

We have recently introduced a new subject category, ‘Multilingual Books’, tagged to every record which has more than one language identification. At present we have over 38,000 such records. #USTCUpdates

There's still time to apply to our workshop! Deadline for proposals TOMORROW

MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY - Join us in person (Old Seminar Room, 71 South St) or on Teams (DM for link!) for our FIRST session of the term! St Martin de Porres and Philipp Melanchthon - Name a more ICONIC duo!

In our latest blog, Dr Elise Watson dives into the fascinating world of sister printers: ustc.ac.uk/news/sorority-… #herbook

Come one, come all to our second session of the semester, all about WOMEN, POWER, and everything in between. Featuring Alex Booth and our very own Zina Gharakhani. Monday, 14 October - In person or on Teams. Not to be missed!

TONIGHT - IN PERSON OR ON TEAMS! Be there or be 🟦