Patrick Leary

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Historian of 19th-c British print and oral culture, esp obscure Victorian scribblers, editors, periodicals, talkers. Enthusiast, battered optimist. #VictorianStudies #Victodon #Histodon #BookHistory #BookHistodon #LitStudies #DigitalHumanities #PublicHistory #Tennis #Ebikes #OldTimeRadio #nobot
Patrick LearyNov 19, 2022

Books encountered by chance - 1st in a series

Period Piece by Gwen Raverat, an artist who happened to be one of Darwin's grandchildren. Her illustrations are one of the many delights of this brillianrly warm, funny account of her childhood in 1890s Cambridge.

One evening in 1985 or so I came upon this tattered copy at a Half-Price Books in Houston, Texas and knew at once that it had to come home with me. We're both even more tattered now, but still together. #Victodons #Books #Darwin

Patrick LearyNov 17, 2022
Daniel Bellingradt Nov 17, 2022

Calling for experts of #BookHistory and beyond: The Book History Book Prize from @sharporg - for books copyrighted 2022 - is still open for submissions. #histodons

As one of the jury members, I am looking forward to see your book. Boost encouraged.

Deadline is 13/01/23. Details: https://www.sharpweb.org/main/book-history-book-prize/

SHARP Book History Book Prize | SHARP

Patrick LearyNov 17, 2022
Show threadAileen FyfeNov 16, 2022

@peterwebster

Re the 'network approach', are the ones you know of historical or contemporary? If historical, please share!

I'm interested in thinking about how editorial and reviewing practices spread to become 'standard', e.g. refereeing/peer review over the period c1830 to 1980. Presumably at least partly due to people who 'learned' reviewing practices for one journal then applying it to other journals...

Patrick LearyNov 17, 2022
LegmaniaNov 16, 2022
Born #OTD William De Morgan (1839-1917) tile maker and friend of William Morris. Designed and made this hauntingly beautiful tablet memorial to Sarah Smith, #Pantomime Artiste located at the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park. Sarah died in 1863 in a fire at Princes’ Theatre while trying to extinguish the flames to save her companion. #Histodons #DeMorgan #Tiles #London #Theatre #History
Patrick LearyNov 15, 2022
Joanne FreemanNov 15, 2022

Well, he is indeed sinking Twitter.

And given the ways in which it serves important practical uses (news & communication during disasters, for example), that stinks.

In addition to the fact that I’ll sorely miss the community I have there.

#TwitterMigrate

Patrick LearyNov 12, 2022
stux⚡️Nov 12, 2022
Thanks to Harvard University, you can now virtually enter the Great Pyramid of #Giza in 3D and 360º
Patrick LearyNov 11, 2022
Been noodling around on a short, introductory manifesto of sorts about the growing importance of attribution research to our understanding of the 19th-century press. Would be glad of any feedback, so here's the draft. https://www.victorianresearch.org/attribution%20-%20out%20of%20the%20shadows.pdf #Victodons #19th-cPeriodicals #JournalismHistory #BookHistory #LitStudies #Authorship
Patrick LearyNov 11, 2022
John AravosisNov 11, 2022
To everyone, like me, who is new here on Mastodon -- I swear, I feel like I'm in Canada, escaping Gilead -- here are two posts by the primary developer of the platform (and owner of the non-profit that holds the trademarks etc) explaining that you should ignore people lecturing you about what you should and shouldn't post here. I now consider this issue settled, and will no longer respond to these folks. Time to embrace Mastodon! Thank you for welcoming us.
Patrick LearyNov 11, 2022
Brendan KeoghNov 11, 2022
Little Mastodon tip if like me you find the content warning culture here overly annoying, you can just go into your settings and tell it to auto-show all posts and/or all sensitive posts. So you can effectively get rid of the content warnings for yourself but let everyone else still have them, which is cool.
Patrick LearyNov 11, 2022
Show threadJennie BatchelorNov 11, 2022
@aileenfyfe Great question. Yes. This is 1833 few months after the bound volumes were compiled. I know a lot of the copies of the magazine that made it to America made it there in bound form too, but in Europe (or France at least) I can monthly issues being circulated. One interesting thing is how fashion reports from British magazines make it elsewhere into the world and the implications of the time lag. There very much was a market for back issues.