Publishing and History of the Book
Colloquium: ‘The Future Perfect of the Book’ sponsored by the Book History Research Network at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London on 25 November.
The programme is now available on the website at http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2011/BHRN/index.htm. Registration is free, but please book a place by emailing jon.millington@sas.ac.uk
Study Day: The Children’s Books History Society are holding a Study Day/Conference on The Centenary of The Secret Garden. It will be held at the Great Crown Court Church of Scotland in Covent Garden, London. From 10.00a.m. – 5.00 p.m., at a cost of £20.
The Speakers will include:-
Dr Ann Thwaite and Professor Gretchen Gerzina, on Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Dr Carole Dunbar Freedom, Restriction and Class in the Work of Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Anne Harvey Noel Streatfeild’s The Painted Garden: Film & TV Versions of The Secret Garden.
Dr Dennis Butts The Politics of The Secret Garden.
Professor Peter Hunt on The Problems of Editing The Secret Garden.
Details from:- The Secretary: Robert Kirkpatrick, 6 Osterley Park View Road, Hanwell, London. W7 2HH
Trinity University Leeds, 27th-28th June 2011
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.
