There is a paper story to this painting from 1672 waiting to be told. Meet Jan Berckheyde's "A Notary in His Office" highlighted in 5 steps - a thread for friends of #paperhistory and #mediahistory of #EarlyModernEurope, and for #histodons in general. Expect a view into the inky paper states of Europe, a paper age dealing also with waste papers, fresh paper sheets waiting to be used, a high paper demand, and some document bags literally full of used papers. Let's roll @histodons
📘 The book "A History of Sport in Europe in 100 Objects", edited by Daphné Bolz and Michael Krüger, includes a chapter authored by Rahul Kumar dedicated to the history of Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola, first published in 1945.
I like big books and I cannot lie. Fellow #histodons, this is me in 2013 and 2023 doing my work.
My main field is called #bookhistory. It is an umbrella term, an overextension of many fields and approaches dealing with past communication flows and artifacts:
Have you checked out the programme for the international conference “Deciphering Censorship: From regulation to the production of invisibilities, from the archive to the Internet”?
Besides the excellent communications, Nicole Moore (UNSW), Robert Darnton (Harvard University), and Richard Burt (University of Florida) will be our keynote speakers.