Tamara Atkin
@tamarajatkin.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
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Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
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*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
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November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
More Bathsua Reginald Makin books! earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b...
Bathsua Reginald Makin’s Books at Dulwich College, London
By Tamara Atkin In a blog post earlier this year, I announced the discovery of a book once owned by the ten-year-old Bathsua Reginald Makin, scholar and teacher, who in the 1640s was tutor to Princ…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
More Bathsua Reginald Makin books! earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b...
I’m seeing “Mary Salmon”, but are my eyes deceiving me?
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I’m seeing “Mary Salmon”, but are my eyes deceiving me?
Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
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Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Is there anyone here that can help me turn a spreadsheet (prices and sellers codes of two batches of books) into something approaching a legible table/visualization?
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Is there anyone here that can help me turn a spreadsheet (prices and sellers codes of two batches of books) into something approaching a legible table/visualization?
Friends, are you seeing an”H” (as in “Honorabilis” before “Gomecij”? Or is it some other abbreviation that’s eluding me?
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Friends, are you seeing an”H” (as in “Honorabilis” before “Gomecij”? Or is it some other abbreviation that’s eluding me?
Shepherds’ delight
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Shepherds’ delight
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You said, we did!
• Gate entry noises (except alarms)=off on both floors!
• Height-adjustable Quick Search machine=available!
• Shelf-ends for books=progressing!
• Two sets of piano headphones=in place!
• Monitors spread out=done!
Please keep the post-its and opinions coming; it really helps!
• Gate entry noises (except alarms)=off on both floors!
• Height-adjustable Quick Search machine=available!
• Shelf-ends for books=progressing!
• Two sets of piano headphones=in place!
• Monitors spread out=done!
Please keep the post-its and opinions coming; it really helps!
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You said, we did!
• Gate entry noises (except alarms)=off on both floors!
• Height-adjustable Quick Search machine=available!
• Shelf-ends for books=progressing!
• Two sets of piano headphones=in place!
• Monitors spread out=done!
Please keep the post-its and opinions coming; it really helps!
• Gate entry noises (except alarms)=off on both floors!
• Height-adjustable Quick Search machine=available!
• Shelf-ends for books=progressing!
• Two sets of piano headphones=in place!
• Monitors spread out=done!
Please keep the post-its and opinions coming; it really helps!
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I'm thrilled to be teaching a short course on Arabic Studies in Early Modern England with Prof. Alastair Hamilton at @warburginstitute.bsky.social next month. We'll need to meet a minimum number of bookings to run, so if you're interested, sign up asap! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Crossing the world without an interpreter: Arabic studies in England 1550-1640
warburg.sas.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm thrilled to be teaching a short course on Arabic Studies in Early Modern England with Prof. Alastair Hamilton at @warburginstitute.bsky.social next month. We'll need to meet a minimum number of bookings to run, so if you're interested, sign up asap! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
Well that’s one way to spend Monday. Thanks to the Island Archives for having us @drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Back in Guersney for some #fragment fun with @tamarajatkin.bsky.social hosted by the Island Archives's Callum Tostevin-Hall.
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Well that’s one way to spend Monday. Thanks to the Island Archives for having us @drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Fo. 3? 10d? Thoughts?!
October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Fo. 3? 10d? Thoughts?!
Book nerds! What would your dream “book history” masters degrees look like?
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Book nerds! What would your dream “book history” masters degrees look like?
Yay! Huge congratulations!!
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Yay! Huge congratulations!!
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I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.
If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).
Thank you!
I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.
If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).
Thank you!
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.
If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).
Thank you!
I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.
If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).
Thank you!
Another day another photoshoot
September 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Another day another photoshoot
Okay. I’ve managed to flip the document and the words “hath” and “upon” now ping out. Any other thoughts?
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Okay. I’ve managed to flip the document and the words “hath” and “upon” now ping out. Any other thoughts?
Who can I write to to ask some questions about a book in the Beinecke? There’s a digital surrogate but I have some outstanding queries about the binding!
September 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Who can I write to to ask some questions about a book in the Beinecke? There’s a digital surrogate but I have some outstanding queries about the binding!
Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?
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Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Niche plea: does anyone have images of the binding, including pastedowns and endleaves of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IUB00496? It’s a Sammelband of 10 plays, including several by Shakespeare, all printed before 1665?
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Niche plea: does anyone have images of the binding, including pastedowns and endleaves of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IUB00496? It’s a Sammelband of 10 plays, including several by Shakespeare, all printed before 1665?
Very excited to see this published today. global.oup.com/academic/pro... I have a chapter on “medieval inheritance”. Huge congrats to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe for marshalling this beast into print!
global.oup.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Very excited to see this published today. global.oup.com/academic/pro... I have a chapter on “medieval inheritance”. Huge congrats to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe for marshalling this beast into print!