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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 2d

So cute! Round here (Exeter) we also get Lucombe Oaks with similarly cool acorns because they were bred by an Exeter plantsman in the 18th century—I love spotting them as living local heritage.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 3d

My two modes of writing:
1) what an exquisite sentence, you clever girl
2) your ideas are too POOR, your knowledge too WEAK, your prose INSUFFICIENT

(see also, rereading past work)

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 4d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 6d

Have to say I’m very much here for people-giving-away-their-windfall-apples season. No photo because I’ve been too busy eating the things.

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 6d

Is there a German word for the joy of unexpectedly finding a trove of new archival evidence and simultaneously the dread of having to somehow account for it in an already overflowing article you’d ‘finished’ doing the primary research for?

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 6d

A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle

Close up photograph of eighteenth century manuscript, showing signature of Jewell Sparke with the ink forming glittery particles

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 14d

It makes me think of Andrew Stauffer's work on the at-risk book traces to be found in university circulating collections. And also opportunities for teaching using the circulating collections, rather than (or as well as!) special collections

Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 14d

I love Muller's note here, saying that she only wrote a simple gift dedication because she was aware that the book might be seen by others, indeed hoped it would be. She signs off as "your friend in ever living sympathy". There's so much going on here for books, sociability, and nature of evidence.

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 14d

Procrastinating (never!) by browsing books in the library. Here’s a copy of Lewis Morris’s The Epic of Hades that was gifted in 1901 by Marie Muller to Ernest Newlandsmith, who would quote from it in The Temple of Art (1904). Then gifted to the Exeter University library by a Mrs W Wordsworth.

Photograph of title page of 1898 illustrated London edition of Lewis Morris’s Song of Hades

Photograph of dedication on fly leaf: “Ernest Newlandsmith August 1901”

Photograph of gift note from Marie Muller

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 15d

‘Tis the season for getting home and finding one’s pockets mysteriously full of perfect conkers

Close up photo of upturned hand holding 7 conkers

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 18d

It sounds more plausible to me, but I am very much floundering (especially as it's 18th century)! I wondered about marriage as a) he should already have a preaching license by this point b) elsewhere, he talks about wanting to marry. But would love to know if the mention of college = preaching.

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 18d

Can anyone help me with an eighteenth century history question? If a clergyman writes c. 1730 that they do not have money for a license from their parish or college (they're a Fellow), what kind of license would this be? Marriage?

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 19d

Cambridge student Ambrose Bonwicke, writing to his father about a prospective room mate in 1711: “He ... is genteel enough in his dialect, being neither a northern nor western lad, out of which two quarters bad dialects usually come”

Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 27d

Turns out not being able to access your dms because of not having done the age verification thing doesn’t stop anyone else from messaging you.

I’ve now turned off my dms, but if you sent me a message earlier today a) sorry! b) can you email me instead? test.pure.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 28d

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

011345 - University of Galway

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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · Sep 13

What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'.

#earlymodern #skystorians

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 12

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'

'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and
the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical
Scholarship', by Timothy Twining bit.ly/3IkveRA

How was ‘everyday erudition’ used to come to terms with the historical reality of Christian revelation? 1/2

'Everyday Erudition: John Locke, the Bible and the Challenge of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship', by Timothy Twining. Full abstract:

The history of early modern scholarship was long written as a subject set at some remove from
the rest of early modern society. Learning was the common property of like-minded scholars
in the ‘Republic of Letters’, linked by shared codes of elite sociability and united by a mutual
concern to transcend religious boundaries. Recent years have seen such views challenged,
with studies demonstrating how much scholarly activity was undertaken to achieve confessional objectives. Yet, these contributions have chiefly focused on orthodox clerical scholars.
This article uses the case of John Locke to present a new perspective on the place and significance of erudition in the early modern period. It is based on a thoroughgoing examination
of Locke’s lifetime of religious reading, bringing together evidence from his manuscript notebooks and journals, his library catalogues and annotated books, and his correspondence and
published works. It coins the notion of ‘everyday erudition’ to reveal how learning was not an
abstruse concern. Instead, for Locke and his contemporaries at multiple points on the sociocultural scale, it was a kind of common currency, a tool to be used to come to terms with the
historical reality of Christian revelation

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Good question! My sense is that (small-medium) provincial libraries are underrepresented in research in general but especially in data?—but I think testing against qualitative findings would be really helpful, and for other questions too

Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 12

(on which note do let me know if you had any thoughts!)

Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh thank you! I’m still at the stage of working out what these datasets can (and can’t) do, and it’s helpful to test ideas out at a conference!

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you to @juliannesimpson.bsky.social and @ellenwerner.bsky.social for the wonderful tour and book display!

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Day two of conference two this week, and I’m happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chetham’s

Photograph of historical library interior

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 10

*blushes* Thank you Sam, you are too kind! (and a brilliant conference organiser, I have learnt!!)

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 10

Day two of the Built With Books conference @livesandletters.bsky.social ! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England

Photo of Built with Books conference poster

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · Sep 10

The walk through Hyde Park isn’t a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · Sep 9

My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the “best and most useful books for each faculty and science” in his public library for Dublin. @marshslibrary.bsky.social #BuiltWithBooks
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴‍☠️

laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looking forward to this today #BuiltWithBooks

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