Early Modern How-to Books
howtobooks.bsky.social
DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖 Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
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Check out our newest foyer display in Archives & Special Collections - “The Age of How-To Books’, curated by Dr James Fox and Professor Laurence Grove @howtobooks.bsky.social
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Historians of sexuality who talk about the late twentieth century. Please note that England is not Britain. Scotland exists, as does Scottish history and historiography.
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A hand-coloured distillation manual from 1519 is a treat: books like that were made to be used at the bench, and someone still wanted this one to be beautiful.
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Oh! My students studying Romeo and Juliet would love that!!
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“a trail of books sold under duress …” “that many of these books were acquired in circumstances morally dubious at best, clearly illegal and unethical at worst, can no longer be ignored.” Say #provenance - you hear the loudest ‘Shush!’ in the library… #bookhistory theconversation.com/when-europes...
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