by chrisa | Oct 26, 2016 | CFPS
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...
by chrisa | Oct 24, 2016 | History of the Book, MA Programme
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...
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 6, 2016 | Hart collection
Submitted by Dr Cynthia Johnston Course Tutor for the MA in the History of the Book Since September 2014, the IES and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery have been working together in an ‘academic partnership.’ This partnership is funded by the Museum, and it has...
by chrisa | May 27, 2014 | Conferences
For several years now Senate House Library has been supporting Institute of English Studies conferences with small displays of books, to enhance the experience of conference delegates and demonstrate the relevance of library holdings — especially special...