🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: https://t.co/czJkN2hIu8 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians

The Times They Are a-Changin' In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII moved the calendar. Rebecca Hirt, in our blog, explores the impact that this shift had on almanacs. You can read it here: https://t.co/pBrQHRBBor #almanacs #earlymodern

There are plenty of newspapers in the USTC, but it’s also great to see the USTC in the press! We recently appeared in Fife Today as we celebrate our 30th anniversary this year: https://t.co/Zd9LWhg6Dj

Hidden receipts, unknown printers and gold-tipped funeral poems. The University of St Andrews is celebrating 30 years of its global book hunting project, the Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc Read more...👇 https://t.co/qT3bdWqP5s #EverToExcel

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam, @BewareCat and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: https://t.co/cijKg3Wt3G

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Our latest blog post, by PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and Blog Editor, Chloe Akers-Brewer is all about the celebration of #September name days: https://t.co/CAr3Us4VuP

Ellen Robertson, a Book History MLitt student @StAndrewsHist, has written on her fascinating research on a book of metrical psalms with extensive manuscript annotations held in the Special Collections @uniofstandrews! https://t.co/GrfqTYb0GU

"EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!" 🗞️ Catch up on the news from the @universalstc annual conference on 'Newspapers and Periodicals', which took place in June 2025, with our newest blog by @ZBrookman (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant). https://t.co/imyWTBzpot #printhistory

☛ 'Well, sir, learn to jest in good time; there's time for all things'-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors New blog: ‘By a Lover of Ha, Ha, He’: Jest Books in a Cambridge Auction Catalogue by Anna Grace Gragg (MLitt student @standrewshist) https://t.co/Q9bAImZLyE

The #CfP for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open! The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025. Any inquiries can be directed to @A_der_Weduwen

388 years ago TODAY, a chair was thrown at the Bishop of Edinburgh as he read from a book during a service. Riots followed shortly afterwards. In our latest blog, MLitt student William Lewis explores the book at the heart of the storm: https://t.co/CfmEEk2dju

In our latest blog, MLitt student Ellen Robertson examines works that were promised by the catalogues of the Frankfurt Book Fair, but not always delivered. You can read it here: https://t.co/63ks9rd1xN

The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: https://t.co/AFIRZ9cUS2

📚Explore the storied lives of Suffolk's parochial library collections in a new blog post: 'Non mihi sed omnibus: Suffolk’s Last Parochial Libraries' by current MLitt student @StAndrewsHist Emily Wildish.📚 #bookhistory #libraryhistory #collectionhistory https://t.co/sfKkxXZwzK

Our conference on News and Periodicals is underway with a panel on Political News Cultures! #USTC25

Our 2025 conference on Newspapers and Periodicals is underway with our hybrid workshop! #USTC25

Emma Caster, MLitt student @StAndrewsHist, explores the career of German printer, Wolfgang Stöckel (Müller) in a new blog: 'Struggles and Strifes of a Reformation Printer: Printers and Debt in Germany' https://t.co/PBekBihyoR #bookhistory #Reformationhistory #earlymodern

Ahoy there! New blog post! Demi van Breukelen, master's student at Utrecht University & visiting researcher @StAndrewsHist explores: 🌊'A Sea of Print: Printed Treasures in the Dutch Prize Papers Collection' https://t.co/zG6eKeEGCx #printhistory #earlymodern #maritimehistory

The eighth issue of USTC Library Quarterly is out now! You can download it and subscribe here: https://t.co/EaOFLZcocy This special issue is a collaboration with the @COMLAWEU project and features articles by @A_der_Weduwen, @CullenBarnaby, and @LauraIncolling2

CONCLAVE! 🗝️ As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 https://t.co/8rlGMj17Nr