by chrisa | Jan 23, 2017 | Collaborations, Conferences, Events
A Research Symposium & Workshop Friday 24 February 2017, 2.00-5.00pm Venue: The Council Room, Fielding Johnson Building, University of Leicester Organised by CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media and Economies & Centre for New Writing, University of...
by chrisa | Nov 28, 2016 | Collaborations, History of the Book, MA Programme
My name is Bonnie and I’m from Colorado, USA. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in History and English from the University of Denver, and I have always loved books and reading. I’ve worked as an editor and enjoy seeing the process of making a book from start to finish....
by chrisa | Nov 21, 2016 | Collaborations, Events
Scott Fitzgerald, the Jazz Age author par excellence, wrote light, funny, jazzy short stories early in the 1920s, and Hollywood adapted four of them into films. The only one known to have survived is Conductor 1492, an adaption of the short story “The Camel’s Back.”...
by chrisa | Nov 16, 2016 | Collaborations, Research Projects
Cynthia Johnston In preparation for a series of broadcasts for BBC Radio Lancaster’s Museums’ Week in November, I visited the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston last week. The Harris holds a spectacular collection of rare books comprised of several...
by chrisa | Oct 17, 2016 | Collaborations
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...
by chrisa | Sep 20, 2016 | Collaborations
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places”. Thus spake Winnie the Pooh. The sentiment may resonate for students encountering sixteenth-century English manuscripts, in which not just spelling but the entire...
