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SHARP @sharpweb.org · Mar 3
Hi SHARPists! Check out our Starter Pack, and send us a message via chat if you'd like to be added!

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We are so pleased to announce the recipients of our 2026 Awards! Many thanks to the jurors, our Awards team, and the SHARP members whose membership fees support this work. (If you'd like to support these awards in the future, consider joining us! sharpweb.org/membership/)

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Membership – SHARPweb
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February 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Attn @sharpweb.org #bookhistory
brianbhalley.bsky.social Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social · 4d
Well, I've slowly started a new blog (!) focusing on some recent history of leftist #Boston #publishers, specifically those in or connected to my own South End neighborhood. I've like to get into their founding and the context for it. Check it out and provide any leads, please. #publishing #books
Boston Independent Activist Publishing: A History
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February 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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We are so excited for this lead-off event to the festival with @eve.gd and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social! It's a bit early to grab your popcorn, but definitely put it in your calendar 📆
eve.gd Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26d
To say I am excited about this would be an understatement. To say I am a little bit terrified would not!

Actually, just really looking forward to it -- and really pleased to see SHARP continuing its accessible practices.

eve.gd/2026/01/10/i...
In conversation with Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
The inaugural SHARPIES, a global book history festival celebrating work in book history from around the world, will take place from July 7–9, 2026 (although ...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Join us in July for the SHARPIES (a global, book history festival!). The program is now live and features interviews, conversations, social events, author talks, book clubs, and more!

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SHARPIES 2026 Program – SHARPweb
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January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Global #BookHistory! 📘
gbarnhisel.bsky.social Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social · 24d
I am one of the editors of the @sharpweb.org journal BOOK HISTORY, so I figured that since I was staying at the Book Hotel in the historic bookselling and publishing district of Tokyo (Jimbocho), it was the least I could do to donate a copy for their collection.
January 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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What an amazing issue! 📘🤓
gbarnhisel.bsky.social Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social · Dec 16
The new BOOK HISTORY is out! @sharpweb.org members check your mailboxes, and the whole issue is available at @projectmuse.bsky.social
markalanmattes.bsky.social Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · Dec 16
I wrote a #bookhistory love letter to some smart folks: @ryancordell.org @rscar.bsky.social @jmadelman.bsky.social (& others!) - thx to @gbarnhisel.bsky.social and all who had their mitts on this thing, & to @amantiquarian.bsky.social for supporting the research back in 2009 - only took 16 yrs lol!
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Announcing: The SHARP News Bibliography Team

We are delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers.

Thank you to our outgoing Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social for everything.

#BookHistory #Bibliography @sharpweb.org
An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: The SHARP News team is delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers. They will be formally taking over Bibliographies starting in January 2026. Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD Candidate at Central European University in Vienna, researching Tamizdat publishers and book history in Soviet Russia. Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: We want to express our endless gratitude to outgoing Bibliographer Alex Wingate, who brought so much innovation and collaborative spirit to SHARP News Bibliographies over the past 3 years. Thank you!
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🚨applications due this Friday!
sharpweb.org SHARP @sharpweb.org · Nov 18
Get in touch if you have any questions about this really exciting, public-facing #BookHistory role!
sharpnews.bsky.social SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Nov 18
🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!

👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!

Details here:

sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Get in touch if you have any questions about this really exciting, public-facing #BookHistory role!
sharpnews.bsky.social SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Nov 18
🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!

👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!

Details here:

sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details. Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details. Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details.
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The deadline to apply for the SHARP News Editor-in-Chief position has been extended through November 28th. This is such a great opportunity for any one interested in public-facing book history work!

sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025.

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The Archie L. Dick Research Development Grants – SHARPweb
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This deadline is coming up at the end of this week. If this strikes your fancy at all, then please get in touch!
sharpweb.org SHARP @sharpweb.org · Oct 27
@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Are you a social media savvy book historian with a talent for sharing news in the digital sphere? We might have a role for you! SHARP News is looking for a new editor, details below👇🏼
sharpweb.org SHARP @sharpweb.org · Oct 27
@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
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October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We hope our friends and supporters can share our exciting programme widely!
@modernistudies.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @nawewriters.bsky.social @sharpweb.org @crasshlive.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Editor-in-Chief
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October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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marielsj.bsky.social
If all goes well, this will be my #BookHistory conference season in 2026 🤞

Médias19
18-20 May @ Montpellier

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7-9 July online
no CfP

@rs4vp.org
23-25 July @tcddublin.bsky.social
🗓️ 1 Nov 👉 rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

#ESPRit2026
9-11 Sep @ kbr.be
🗓️ 7 Jan 👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or ...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A couple of little amusements at the start of the term

1) Borrowed with due credit, Ian Gadd's iangadd.bsky.social book-ripping trick. I think he first told us about it at the 2011 @sharpweb.org conference in Washington

Now you all can enjoy it

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NPR on Instagram: "Are you a bookmark person or a dog-ear person? NPR's Andrew Limbong looks at some of the the history behind how those two camps evolved."
20K likes, 435 comments - npr on July 30, 2025: "Are you a bookmark person or a dog-ear person? NPR's Andrew Limbong looks at some of the the history behind how those two camps evolved.".
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September 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Deeply saddened to hear of the death of book historian, librarian and bibliographile (is that a word?) extraordinaire Ian Willison, as circulated today by Simon Eliot via @sharpweb.org list serv (see list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/sh...) 1/
A screenshot of text which reads: I have to report the death of Ian Willison (1926-2025) on the 27 August, just a few days after he had celebrated his 99th birthday. Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and University College London, Ian had a long and distinguished career in librarianship, bibliography, and book history. He worked in the Library of the British Museum (1955-74) and then in the British Library (1974-87), finally becoming its Head of English Language (British). He was Visiting Professor of Historical Bibliography, University of Chicago (1959); and Cline Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin (1989). He was editor of volume 4 of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1972), and was one of the three General Editors of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (1999-2019). He was awarded a CBE for his services to the history of the book in 2005. Ian was the founder and benefactor of the Willison Foundation Charitable Trust, which was set up in 2016 to offer grants to those involved in research in book history. It has since supported many members of SHARP. Ian’s intellectual enthusiasm and support benefitted many individuals and organisations. He was chair of the UK Book Trade History Group (1985–98), and helped to found the Institute of English Studies in the University of London in 1999, of which he was one of its first senior research fellows. He was also a keen supporter of SHARP in its formative years. Those who knew him will remember Ian not just as scholar, but also as an enthusiastic, generous, kindly, and congenial man. He will be greatly missed. Simon Eliot
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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citizenwald.bsky.social
I always remember @iangadd.bsky.social telling me about that opening trick from his classes--
but I also recall his paper on dog-earing at the 2015 @sharpweb.org conference

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all text from program
August 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books?

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On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🏆 We'd like to officially congratulate @eve.gd, whose *Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History* (Stanford University Press, 2024) won our 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize! www.sup.org/books/media-...
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History | Stanford University Press
Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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How is everyone's @sharpweb.org #SHARP2025?!

#BookHistory
July 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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mazarine.bsky.social
Such an impressive group of finalists for the @sharpweb.org book history prize…

…and extra congratulations to prize recipient Martin Paul Eve for his “Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History”!

#SHARP2025
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July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM