Call for Papers: The Book Index

The Book Index Centre for the Study of the Book Bodleian Library, Oxford 22-23 June, 2017 Keynotes: Professor Ann Blair (Harvard); Professor Emily Steiner (UPenn) ‘I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes, […] that unknown labourer in literature who first laid...
MA History of the Book

MA History of the Book

Leah Henrickson At the age o’ 22, I flew o’er the ocean blue… to pursue a full-time MA in the History of the Book at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of English Studies. And clearly poetry was not my speciality. During my undergraduate degree at the University...
An Interview with Dr Elizabeth Savage

An Interview with Dr Elizabeth Savage

Dr Elizabeth Savage is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Book History and Communications, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research explores how earliest printing techniques in the West shaped visual...