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 >
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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 >
Where the Translators Hide (in the Victorian Periodicals for Children)
By Dr Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz, CBCP Visiting Research Fellow 2022–23 “The old schoolroom at No. — Eccleston Square […] wide, low room at the very top of one of the tallest…Read More >
Introducing the CBCP Visiting Research Fellows for 2022-23
We are delighted to announce the two successful candidates for our Visiting Research Fellowship awards for 2022-23: Dr Silke Körber and Dr Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz. Applications were invited from scholars looking…Read More >
‘The greatest question in the world’ British Readers and Nazi Germany 1937-1940
By Dr Ellen Pilsworth, University of Reading ‘How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is, that we should be trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away…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 >
The Pamphlet 1.5: Publishing and the Long Player: the Argo Record Company
By D-M Withers, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, University of Reading. Since founding in 1952, the Argo Record Company had learnt to make a…Read More >
The Pamphlet 1.4: Selling Books in a Pandemic
by Maria Vassilopoulos, Trade and Export Sales and Marketing Manager at British Library Publishing As the Publishing Sales Manager for the British Library and a PhD researcher working on…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 >