We are pleased to invite applications for 2 funded Visiting Research Fellowships to scholars looking to conduct research and shape a new project drawing on the University of Reading’s Archives…Read More >
CBCP 2023 conference: Publishing Anti-fascism
Call for papers: This international conference will bring together scholars of anti-fascist publishing activity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from any linguistic or geographical context. Our aim is to…Read More >
‘New Boxes Come Across the Sea’: Exploring the Transnational Victorian Library
by Dr Steph Adler, CBCP Early Career Visiting Fellow New boxes come across the sea From Mr.Mudie’s libraree [sic] (W.S Gilbert, Babs Ballads 1868) In May 2022 I…Read More >
Register to attend the 1922 conference, March 28 2022
Registrations are now open for the 1922 conference – Inside and Outside Modernism: An Anatomy of 1922 and its Cultures – co-organised by Ben Bruce and Domonique Davies. Conference –…Read More >
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowships, 2021-2
In view of the UCU strike action affecting UK Higher Education December 1-3 2021, the closing date had been changed to Wednesday 8 December, 5pm UK. We are pleased to…Read More >
Getting into/Demystifying Publishing: CBCP Professional Track workshop with Careers service
We had a well-attended student-focussed event this week featuring 3 fantastic speakers from publishing. Thanks to Kath Burton (Taylor & Francis), Bea Fitzgerald (Hodder & Stoughton), and Emma Shercliff (Laxfield…Read More >
The Pamphlet 1.3: Battling on…women in publishing
by Elizabeth West, Department of English Literature, University of Reading Johanna Thomas-Corr’s recent article for The Observer, How women conquered the world of fiction, provoked a flurry of social media…Read More >
#International Women’s Day 2021 and Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
by Nicola Wilson In 1914 in an article on her new creative writing group, Lancashire mill-woman Ethel Carnie Holdsworth wrote that “what I feel is that literature up till now…Read More >
The Pamphlet 1.2 Should World Book Day Showcase More New Writers?
By Dr Marrisa Joseph A couple of weeks ago I received an email from my son’s nursery. Attached was a token to exchange for a book to celebrate World Book…Read More >
