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‘The greatest question in the world’ British Readers and Nazi Germany 1937-1940

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20th March 202320th March 2023

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

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3rd November 202210th November 2022

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

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6th July 20216th July 2021

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 1.5: Publishing and the Long Player: the Argo Record Company

The Pamphlet 1.4: Selling Books in a Pandemic

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18th June 202118th June 2021

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 1.4: Selling Books in a Pandemic

The Pamphlet 1.3: Battling on…women in publishing

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28th May 20213rd June 2021

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

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9th March 20219th March 2021

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 >

#International Women’s Day 2021 and Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

The Pamphlet 1.2 Should World Book Day Showcase More New Writers?

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4th March 20214th March 2021

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 >

The Pamphlet 1.2 Should World Book Day Showcase More New Writers?

CBCP Research videos: Elisa Bolchi on Virginia Woolf and Italian Readers

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18th January 202118th January 2021

We are pleased to introduce the first in our new monthly series of short videos presenting research projects related to the Centre for Book Culture and Publishing. The first researcher…Read More >

A publishing initiative: Marie Neurath picturing history

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30th December 2020

CBCP Co-Director, Sue Walker, was invited to talk about Marie Neurath’s work at ‘Exploring Collections, Archaeology and Empire – Creating Narratives for Younger Audiences, past present, future’, a workshop organised…Read More >

A publishing initiative: Marie Neurath picturing history

The Pamphlet 1.1: Independent publishing during COVID

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24th November 202014th January 2021

By Anne Nolan, Sales and Marketing, Two Rivers Press What has 2020 been like for independent publishers in the UK? Well, it has been tough, but with some unexpected upsides….Read More >

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