Tim Wade
@tpwade.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’ on English scholars in Europe, 1490-1550. Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
Is it just me or are my emails trying to tell me something?
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Is it just me or are my emails trying to tell me something?
Same old garbage by people who despise teachers
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Same old garbage by people who despise teachers
Currently on its latest travels!
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Currently on its latest travels!
Made a little pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp today which was wonderful. The new ‘Women’s Business’ exhibition is fab as well
#BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums
#BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Made a little pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp today which was wonderful. The new ‘Women’s Business’ exhibition is fab as well
#BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums
#BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums
Constantly amazed at the efforts of scholars in 20thC to edit the materials on which so much Renaissance history still relies. Here's Henry de Vocht's account of rushing the famous Cranevelt letters through the streets of Leuven during WW1
#skystorians #EarlyModern
#skystorians #EarlyModern
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Constantly amazed at the efforts of scholars in 20thC to edit the materials on which so much Renaissance history still relies. Here's Henry de Vocht's account of rushing the famous Cranevelt letters through the streets of Leuven during WW1
#skystorians #EarlyModern
#skystorians #EarlyModern
The picture label just said ‘Reviewer 2 delivers feedback’ #AcademicSky #Skystoriana
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The picture label just said ‘Reviewer 2 delivers feedback’ #AcademicSky #Skystoriana
Went to the new V&A and it was just a load of old ikea furniture
(Jk it was fun, they even had a Donatello on display)
(Jk it was fun, they even had a Donatello on display)
August 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Went to the new V&A and it was just a load of old ikea furniture
(Jk it was fun, they even had a Donatello on display)
(Jk it was fun, they even had a Donatello on display)
Peter Burke being astute as ever on the disproportionate impact of exiles, emigres and expatriates in the history of knowledge. If only a govt minister or two would pay any notice...
#skystorians
#skystorians
August 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Peter Burke being astute as ever on the disproportionate impact of exiles, emigres and expatriates in the history of knowledge. If only a govt minister or two would pay any notice...
#skystorians
#skystorians
Talking @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference tomorrow. Come along to hear about how one early Tudor scholar got interested in a mythical rock-eating worm…
#EarlyModern #skystorians
#EarlyModern #skystorians
July 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Talking @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference tomorrow. Come along to hear about how one early Tudor scholar got interested in a mythical rock-eating worm…
#EarlyModern #skystorians
#EarlyModern #skystorians
May 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Mildly obsessed with this title page woodcut for a Venetian edition of Jacopo di Porcia's letters. Have any of you lovely book people seen other examples like it?
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
May 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Mildly obsessed with this title page woodcut for a Venetian edition of Jacopo di Porcia's letters. Have any of you lovely book people seen other examples like it?
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
Very sad news from Myanmar over the last few days. I was lucky to visit several years ago when it looked like the country might be on a different path. A simply stunning place with wonderful people. My thoughts with them
March 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Very sad news from Myanmar over the last few days. I was lucky to visit several years ago when it looked like the country might be on a different path. A simply stunning place with wonderful people. My thoughts with them
What better way to whet the appetite for a book on printing types than a tale of a bibliographer lost on a glacier…
#BookHistory
#BookHistory
March 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
What better way to whet the appetite for a book on printing types than a tale of a bibliographer lost on a glacier…
#BookHistory
#BookHistory
Though I love a fancy leather binding, I am always most excited to find limp parchment bindings in the library. These take us closer to the look and feel of most books from the sixteenth century. Here's a couple of snaps of a recent find at Norwich Cathedral
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
March 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Though I love a fancy leather binding, I am always most excited to find limp parchment bindings in the library. These take us closer to the look and feel of most books from the sixteenth century. Here's a couple of snaps of a recent find at Norwich Cathedral
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
The cats understand me
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The cats understand me
I guess we’ll just have to risk it
February 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I guess we’ll just have to risk it
A little reminder of how fragile the library can be (from the BL)! Nearly 250,000 books were destroyed in WW2 at the British Museum, even after efforts had been made to protect large numbers of them
#bookhistory #libraries
#bookhistory #libraries
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A little reminder of how fragile the library can be (from the BL)! Nearly 250,000 books were destroyed in WW2 at the British Museum, even after efforts had been made to protect large numbers of them
#bookhistory #libraries
#bookhistory #libraries
Jörg Ratgeb’s murals for the Frankfurt Carmelites, c1514-21. Surely one of the most overlooked artworks of the renaissance
#EarlyModern #art
#EarlyModern #art
January 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Jörg Ratgeb’s murals for the Frankfurt Carmelites, c1514-21. Surely one of the most overlooked artworks of the renaissance
#EarlyModern #art
#EarlyModern #art
Some words of wisdom from LBJ yesterday at his Presidential Library
December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Some words of wisdom from LBJ yesterday at his Presidential Library
This is a trap right? It’ll just be me and the other nerds bundled into the back of a van
November 17, 2024 at 3:05 AM
This is a trap right? It’ll just be me and the other nerds bundled into the back of a van
Does this guy think he’s sitting next to the *actual* duke who fought at Waterloo…
September 23, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Does this guy think he’s sitting next to the *actual* duke who fought at Waterloo…
‘Seen any sheep, mate?’
September 14, 2024 at 10:46 AM
‘Seen any sheep, mate?’
I’m up in Glasgow for a short visiting fellowship and loving these scenes of everyday life from the Calendarium Romanum (1518)
September 12, 2024 at 7:32 AM
I’m up in Glasgow for a short visiting fellowship and loving these scenes of everyday life from the Calendarium Romanum (1518)