• Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper. An online version of this exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It includes lots of images of early newsbooks and audio descriptions of the exhibits. Curated by Chris Kyle and Jason Peacey (with EIizabeth Walsh).

• Nominations for the Cliopatria Awards 2008 have opened. They reward the best historical blogging and the categories are: best group blog,;best individual blog; best new blog; best post; best series of posts; and best writer.