The University of Reading is seeking to appoint a Writer in Residence to respond to The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) and the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press (1917-46) in preparation for a…Read More >
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowship scheme 2025-6: call for applications
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowship programme 2025-6 We are pleased to announce that CBCP Visiting Research Fellowships are now available to scholars and researchers looking to conduct research and shape a…Read More >
Congratulations to Dr Hyei Jin Kim: Leverhulme success
We are delighted to share that Dr Hyei Jin Kim, one of our CBCP Research Fellows 2024-5, has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Careers Fellowship for her postdoctoral work on…Read More >
CBCP Fellow’s new publication: Dr Buxi Duan on literary agent Nancy Pearn
We were delighted to see Buxi Duan‘s new publication on Nancy Pearn and D. H. Lawrence, published here in English: Journal of the English Association. Buxi is developing this work…Read More >
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: new insights into her little-known later novels as they are re-published for the first time in nearly a century
by Jenny Harper, PhD Researcher, Department of English Literature, University of Reading As part of my PhD research investigating the work of the early twentieth-century radical socialist author, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth,…Read More >
CBCP Fellow: Tracing The Genealogy of the Kenyan Novel in the Heinemann Educational Books archive
by Billy Kahora, Visiting CBCP Research Fellow 2024, University of Bristol In the months of May and June 2024 I spent two weeks at the University of Reading’s CBCP as…Read More >
CBCP Visiting Fellowships 2024-5
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowship programme 2024-5 Visiting Research Fellowships are available to scholars and researchers looking to conduct research and shape a new project drawing on the University of Reading’s…Read More >
Margaret Gatty and George Bell: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Natural History
by Laurence Talairach, CBCP Visiting Research Fellow 2024 Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, Alexandre-Koyré Center/University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès Images from British Sea-Weeds, vol 1 (1863), the Internet…Read More >
CBCP Fellow update: What’s in a name?: Tracing the Evolution of the Traditional Market Agreement
by Hyei Jin Kim I began my visiting fellowship at the University of Reading Special Collections with a single aim: to uncover the early history of the Traditional Market Agreement…Read More >
Congrats to former fellows…
Congratulations to former CBCP Fellows Dr D-M Withers and Dr Liz West on the publication of a co-authored article on publisher Norah Smallwood (1909-84), based on research in the Chatto…Read More >