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 >
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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 >
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 >
