School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures

The Centre for the History of the Book

The Edinburgh Book History Seminars

Autumn 2011

Seminars take place on the 5th Floor of Edinburgh University Main
Library from 1-2pm.

- Schedule Autumn 2011-


Friday 30 September
Content and Context: The McSweeney's Approach to Bookmaking
Alexander Starre (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)


Friday 14 October
Media Mogul? Media Man? The Freedom of the Publisher:
W.T. Stead after the Dailies

Laurel Brake (Birkbeck)


Friday 28 October
Wycliffite Bibles as Orthodoxy
Eyal Poleg (Centre for the History of the Book)


Friday 11 November
The Early History of the Mission Press, Serampore
Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University)


Friday 25 November
Title to be announced
Claire Squires (University of Stirling)


Friday 9 December
David Laing as a Collector of Books and Manuscripts
Murray Simpson (Edinburgh)


Organised by
The CENTRE for the HISTORY of the BOOK
& EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb