Still a few places left on this course - come and experience some of Cambridge UL's most unusual and interactive books.

“Although complexity & advanced vocabulary may be part of literary merit,literary merit is not reducible to complexity & advanced vocabulary: ‘to be or not to be?’ is, after all, at first,a simple phrase.”1 of a number of concerns in response to ⁦ #OFSTED englishassociation.ac.uk/our-response-t…

This summer we are running our beginners course for those interested in medieval manuscripts. No previous experience necessary and we have a lot of fun*.
*if you like medieval books.

A reminder that registration for our LRBS Summer School is still open!

Sign up for some bookish courses like the one below with our Director, Dr Andrew Nash on 'Using Publisher's Archives'!

Find out more here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-bo…

Very much looking forward to delivering my first collaborative eLabs (elaboratories.org) workshop today on 'Building Community through Digital Pedagogy and Project Infrastructure' at Uni Luxembourg c2dh.uni.lu/events/explori…

Next Week!

19 March 2024: 5-7 PM

The Out of Practice seminar presents 'Shifting Audiences: Reconfiguring Pasts' with speakers Redell Olsen Department of English at Royal Holloway and our very own Christopher Ohge !

Book here: buff.ly/43bayl4

COMING SOON!! Ewan Jones (Cambridge) on 'Habits of Inattention in Romantic Literature'. Friday 22 March 2024 at 17.30 in Senate House, London (G35, Bloomsbury Room). Chair: Rowan Boyson. Free admission. Wine reception. ALL WELCOME.

What better day could there be than #WorldBookDay to share that our #OpenAccess titles have now reached OVER ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Thank you to all of the readers, researchers, authors, editors and academics who have helped us to get here.

For more info: uolpress.co.uk/2024/03/one-mi…

LRBS Michael Durrant 🏳️‍🌈 Wellcome Library Natural History Museum University of Reading Special Collections 🧰 💻Join Dr Christopher Ohge Christopher Ohge in 'The Book Historian's Digital Toolkit' to be introduced to a variety of digital methods and tools for book history research, and a historical survey of digitisation and electronic books.

Book here: buff.ly/4bigigo

#bookhistory

The vicious cyberattack on British Library is a national outrage – posing huge challenges for our national library. I argue in this Opinion piece in The Standard that government should be properly funding their complex recovery programme. standard.co.uk/comment/britis…

🎓 Scholarship Alert!📯

The Maggs Scholarship is a fully funded studentship for our MA/MRes History of the Book 2024/25.

The studentship is funded by Maggs Bros. Ltd. , one of the world’s largest and oldest antiquarian booksellers.

Apply now:
buff.ly/3NxhFO8

The LRBS 2024 Summer School has launched!

There are a number of exciting courses open for booking, and we are offering a 10% discount on the listed price if you use code LRBS24 at the checkout*.

Register here: buff.ly/484X0sB

*offer ends 5/01/24

✨a final folioversary hurrah!✨

i am proud to have edited a constellation of short, provocative essays on the first folio in collection & as a collection by @tarallyons Aaron T. Pratt @vanessabraganza Jason Scott-Warren & jane wild

➡️ academic.oup.com/sq/issue/74/4

'A thoroughly enriching Masters Programme!' Sophie Jones, now working for Jarndyce Books, shares her experience doing our MA in the History of the Book.

One week till we close for Jan 2024 entry.

Get your application in!

ies.sas.ac.uk/study-and-trai…

Our next CDH Open explores 'The Bow in the Cloud' - an 1834 anthology of 90 poems and prose works collected and edited by Mary Anne Rawson, a founding member of the Sheffield Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.

cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37247/

How can digital scholarly editing recover under-examined anti-slavery literary archives and introduce new paths for critical interpretation and historical scholarship?

Dr Christopher Ohge (School of Advanced Study, University of London) joins CDH on 17 Nov to discuss.

Book now: buff.ly/3FxJHog

It was such a privilege to be a part of this film on Melville's Moby-Dick on ARTE! Huge thanks to Peta Jenkin and Hai-Hsin Lu Berlin Producers Media arte.tv/de/videos/0958…

Launch of 2023-4 seminar series. Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL) on 'Wordsworth's Tea Cup: Sugar, Slavery and Taste'. Friday 20 October at 17.30 in Senate House, University of London (G35, Bloomsbury Room). Chair: David Duff. Free admission. Wine reception. ALL WELCOME.

I really can't recommend inscription enough. Book history, book design, avant-garde writing, and a bit of theory - but all jumbled up together - and presented as a party bag rather than a journal. Issue 4 (on TOUCH) out next month. Submissions open for Issue 5 on CONTAINERS.