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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Books and the People. Opening up access to books and reading #Go All In
DESCRIPTION:“I say that this revolution has been for some time overdue\, because from one aspect it is\, of course\, only part of the great change in selling policy which some have called the ‘democratisation of production’. […] Books are only just beginning to feel the influence which\, in the course of a generation\, has brought gramophone records\, silk stockings\, foreign travel\, and smoked salmon (to take four examples at random) within the reach of small purses.”\n(Margaret Cole\, Books and the People\, 1938) \nOne hundred years ago\, a group of publishers\, writers\, businesses\, and libraries were challenging who had access to books while defending the importance of reading for pleasure. In her Books and the People (1938)\, socialist Margaret Cole described the new book clubs and commercial high street libraries of the 1920s and ’30s as the “opening stages of a real revolution […] in the world of English-language book production”. \nThis exhibition looks at a moment before book-buying was possible for most people. We look at some of the changes interwar that made access to new books easier\, more convenient\, and sometimes cheaper\, helping to develop more democratic\, shared cultures of reading. We also include examples of everyday printed ephemera that book clubs and societies produced and that tell us about how access to books was encouraged and promoted. \nIt is curated by Nicola Wilson\, Sue Walker and Emma Minns and will be held in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus)\, RG6 6BZ. It is open from 30 March to 29 May 2026\, Monday to Wednesday only\, from 10 am to 4 pm. \nGroup visits can be made by appointment. Please email lpgdc@reading.ac.uk. \nThe exhibition is part of the National Year of Reading National Year of Reading 2026 | Go All In initiative. 2026 is the National Year of Reading\, a Department for Education scheme supported by the National Literacy Trust\, which aims to tackle a decline in reading enjoyment and reconnect people of all ages with reading as a relevant and rewarding activity. \n♦♦♦♦♦♦ \nExhibition event\nOn Thursday 30th April there will be a CBCP exhibition event from 5pm featuring talks by the curators. All are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. \nThis event will be held in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6BZ. \n♦♦♦♦♦♦ \nPieces on display at the exhibition
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/exhibition-books-and-the-people-opening-up-access-to-books-and-reading-go-all-in/
LOCATION:Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus)\, 2 Earley Gate\, RG6 6BZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:CBCP seminar: ‘It is a worthy project\, but […] the public is satiated’: Publishing Holocaust Testimonies from East-Central Europe\, 14 May
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Joanna Rzepa – Senior Lecturer\, Department of Literature\, Film\, and Theatre Studies\, University of Essex\n \nThis research seminar is a hybrid event & is free & open to all \n\nTo join us in person come along to Room 127\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6EL\nTo join via MS Teams\, please register here\n\nIn this talk\, Dr Joanna Rzepa will examine the translation and publishing history of Holocaust testimonies from East-Central Europe. Exploring the production and circulation of selected survivor narratives since World War II until the fall of the Iron Curtain\, she will interrogate British and American publishers’ agendas and editorial practices\, which she situates within the broader context of the cultural politics of the Cold War. \nThe talk will consider censorship regimes that shaped the construction and circulation of testimonial narratives during the Cold War\, paying particular attention to the changing political and historical status of the Holocaust in East-Central Europe and globally. It will also bring to light cases of complex publishing trajectories of narratives such as Mary Berg’s Warsaw Ghetto Diary (1945)\, which – while originally written in Polish – only exist in various translations\, retranslations\, and backtranslations as the original source texts have never been published and\, in some cases\, are no longer extant. \nAbout our speaker:\nDr Joanna Rzepa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature\, Film\, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. Her research interests include translation history\, Holocaust writing\, and publishing studies. \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/cbcp-seminar-it-is-a-worthy-project-but-the-public-is-satiated-publishing-holocaust-testimonies-from-east-central-europe-14-may/
LOCATION:Room 127\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading\, RG6 6EL\, United Kingdom
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