Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️

medrenliza.bsky.social

20 October 2026 17:22

Seen today at @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social: a copy of Cavendish's 1668 /Plays/ with original proofers' marks from the print house still visible on one sheet! [I checked the scanned version on EEBO, and every change marked here had been made in that copy. Here we see the compositors' first draft!]

Dr. Syntax

drsyntax.bsky.social

18 October 2026 00:50

Four Stages of Cruelty

neil guthrie

nguthrie.bsky.social

18 October 2026 00:50

Appropriately for the season, Ronald Paulson told me at an ASECS dinner (or a similar event - it was a long while ago) that he had seen the ghost of Hogarth’s pug in the cellars of Burlington House 👻 🐶

Ben Gross

bhgross144.bsky.social

08 October 2026 23:23

Boosting the signal for any 18th c. scholars in the audience. I visited @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social for the first time in August. Their collections are outstanding! 🗃️📜📚

Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳

ancestralenq.bsky.social

07 October 2026 22:23

🧵A commemorative plaque has been unveiled for Francis Barber, Britain's first known black schoolteacher at Dr Samuel Johnson's townhouse at Gough Street, off Fleet Street, London. Barber was born into slavery 👇 BBC News - Britain's first black schoolteacher gets plaque www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...