media

scotsman on sunday - history of libraries

Opinion piece on the history of libraries in the context of the current library crisis (3 October 2021).

bookshop of the world on the new books network

Episode of the New Books Network hosted by Ryan David Shelton on The Bookshop of the World (July 2021).

disaster year lecture, 16 april 2021

Lecture from 16 April 2021 (in Dutch) on the influence of pamphlets, newspapers, books and chronicles on the Dutch Disaster Year (1672).

Watch here.

Appearance on late night live, ABC Australia, April 2020

Interview with Natale Vacalebre for Il canale dei libri (July 2020)

lecture in kingston, ontario, november 2019

This talk was part of the symposium Rembrandt and Leiden: New Perspectives that took place at Agnes Etherington Art Centre on 8 November 2019. The symposium featured new research by international scholars on Rembrandt and his circle, Leiden and Dutch culture in the seventeenth century, connecting the exhibition "Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges" with new perspectives on the artist and his era.

history of newspaper advertising

Article for The Conversation (15 April 2020)

Articles in the Aberdeen Press and Journal and the St Andrews Courier (26 March 2020)

Digitisation of seventeenth-century newspapers

Report (in Dutch) on the website of the Metamorfoze team at the Royal Library in The Hague

Musings on ‘Fake news’

FiveThirtyEight, article by Brooke Borel

Interview (in Dutch) for the Stimuleringsfonds voor de journalistiek (The Dutch Journalism Fund)

discovery of the first Utrecht newspaper

Coverage on the History Blog

Article by the Reformatorisch Dagblad (14 May 2016), in Dutch

fagel pamphlets, Trinity COllege DUblin

The Fagel collection of pamphlets in Trinity College, Dublin, is the greatest collection of Dutch pamphlets outside the Low Countries, and one of the true treasures of Trinity’s marvellous library. Watch this video to learn more about the 278 volumes of sixteenth and seventeenth-century pamphlets which Andrew Pettegree and I have systematically catalogued over the course of several years. See the full report, and some highlights of the collection.