Trinity University Leeds, 27th-28th June 2011
Conference cfp: Research Foundations
Book History Research Network http://www.tcd.ie/CISS/bhrn/index.php
The Book History Research Network is currently based at the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Its aim is to bring together postgraduates, academics, teachers, and independent researchers working in any area or period of ‘the history of the book’. Its hosts a web register of Book History Researchers and two Study Days a year in various locations throughout the UK and Ireland.
The British Book Trade Index provides a good list of book history sites http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing http://www.sharpweb.org/
The Centre for the History of the Book, The University of Edinburgh http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/
CHB was established in 1995 as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text – its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text.
Centre for the History of Authorship, Writing and Publishing, University of Reading http://www.reading.ac.uk/english/research/deal-chawp.aspx
CHAWP hosts or contributes to a number of prestigious research projects including the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, the Oxford History of the Novel in English and the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project. The Centre has special links with the University of Reading Library which holds the largest collection of publishers’ and printers’ archives in the UK and also hosts two international database projects, the Location Register of Twentieth-Century English Literary Manuscripts and the WATCH (Writers and their Copyright Holders) project.
