KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Andrew Pettegree @apettegree.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. Director of @universalstc.bsky.social.
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
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Print and Probability Project @print-and-prob.bsky.social developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
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Piers Brown @piersbrown.bsky.social Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics, history of the book and history of science.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com FSA
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie.
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Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
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Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
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Josh O’Driscoll @jodriscoll.bsky.social Manuscript curator at the Morgan Library, among other things.
Natale Vacalebre @natvacalebre.bsky.social Beatriz Galindo Professor at University of Alcalá. Book Historian & #Dante Scholar | Medieval & Early Modern Nerd. Co-Founder & Managing Editor of 'Bibliotheca Dantesca.'
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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social Special collections librarian / curator / archivist. Longtime Morgan Library manuscripts curator, Thoreauvian, Brontëite, Belle da Costa Greene devotee. Studying Shaker book culture.
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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts since 1847. Visitors welcome 10-6 daily; catalogues issued regularly (https://mailchi.mp/quaritch/stayintouch).
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Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com A scholarly project focused on Tolkien from a corpus linguistic and digital humanities perspective. Posts by James Tauber (@jtauber.com)
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
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