This week's newsletter includes a wild ride through an exhibition case styled like a Renaissance curiosity cabinet.
🗃 #earlymodern #materialculture #monsters #printculture #naturalhistory
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Call for papers
Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of EdinburghThe conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture
Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026
https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture
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🎅 Santa has looked much the same on the page for generations. Preserving periodical covers like this one helps carry those familiar images forward, connecting how the season ❄️ was pictured then with how we recognize it now.
See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/%40iasocial/lists/6/holiday-2025-periodical-art
#HolidayArt #PeriodicalArt #Archives #CulturalMemory #ChristmasHistory #PrintCulture
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Celebrate vintage winter style with these "The American Girl" magazine covers, published by the Girl Scouts. Left: December 1929 cover depicting three young women in colorful winter clothing. Right: December 1928 cover depicting a young woman with a billowing scarf, walking a dog as snow falls around them.
View more in this holiday collection ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/%40iasocial/lists/6/holiday-2025-periodical-art#HolidayArt #PeriodicalArt #Archives #CulturalMemory #ChristmasHistory #PrintCulture
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HUGE archive of independently published popular music magazines and fanzines for your viewing pleasure. Share with your music and print-culture nerd friends!!!
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Feiffer's first appearance in Playboy.
August 1959.
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More of the Beat movement in Playboy -- three portraits of the scene. February 1958.
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No jazz reporting to share in this issue, so how about some Beat writing in Playboy instead? Jack Kerouac, "The Rumbling, Rambling Blues."
Playboy, January 1958.
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This post asks: can we estimate the extent of what has disappeared? What does the “dark matter” of book history look like?
#BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #PrintCulture #HungarianHistory #LostBooks
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From the next issue (OCT.57). An ad for a Playboy Records compilation of the previous year's (1956) poll winners. Says something about the readership's taste. Major records from Art Blakey, Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Max Roach that year.
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Playboy's 1958 Jazz Poll. Who are you voting for?
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High Times, July 1977.
An overview of the landscape of music journals of the era. Perhaps useful to researchers.
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If you're a comics/comix/cartooning nerd, dig this: @internetarchive has a collection of Cartoonist Profiles, a trade journal for cartoonists that ran from 1969 - 2005.
https://archive.org/details/pub_cartoonist-profiles?page=3&sort=-date
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I don't know what kind of band Glass Animals is, but l really appreciate the Whole Earth Catalog vibe of their gig poster.
#counterculture #PrintCulture #GlassAnimals #wholeearthcatalog
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We move to book # 4 in our thematic series & to mass-media #PrintCulture: the essay collection ed. by Paul Raphael Rooney & Anna Gasperini on media & print culture consumption in 19th c Britain & reader motivations
#VictorianStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #MediaStudies
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Today's cheap print culture finds.
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"It is perhaps the final disgrace that issues like nuclear disarmament and racist persecution should have become the small change of Tin Pan Alley."
Michael Thomas:,"Protest Song: An Epitaph," Penthouse UK, June 1966
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"Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Candid Conversation with the Man Who Founded the "Beat" Generation." Penthouse UK. August 1965
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The Good Ol' Grateful Dead in Playboy, October 1980. (....Denver, 6/7/80, to be precise...)
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💫SHARP is seeking to fill the new position of Executive Director. Check out the job ad below, and share widely!
#BookHistory #Job #PrintCulture #Academia
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RD_MVsG9R8bWxwN3d5DNe-Y0EAB0pcxKOJi5GnL0Oq4/edit?usp=sharing
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Michael Horovitz on Gregory Corso. Penthouse UK, August 1965.
#PrintCulture #Counterculture #Beat #Poetry #Magazines #Penthouse #1960s
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Tell me I'm out of touch here.
I cannot imagine, in our times, a publisher putting out 9-page-long pieces of dense cultural satire (textual and visual) for a readership made up primarily of 14-year-olds. Yes? No?
(Mad #167, 1974)
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SHARP is looking for a co-editor to join the Book History editorial team!
Applications are due on Friday, May 31st.
You can find more information as well as a full job description at the link.
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⭐ Registration for #SHARP2024 is now open! 💫 Early bird rates are available until Friday, May 24th.
#Academia #Conference #BookHistory #PrintCulture #Text
https://registration.venuereading.com/Registration/Welcome.aspx?e=917F20684A212D092DEA193173AECEB4
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NORML ad, OUI, 1974.
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Here's a study by Samuel Fallon about Paper Monsters - that is, serial, semifictional personae such as #ThomasNashe's Pierce Penilesse, Robert Greene's ghost & others, who became collective, public fictional figures of #PrintCulture
📖 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1663870713
