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This conference at Newcastle University considers the British or Irish book trades locally, nationally or in their global perspective, including comparative perspectives. It addresses questions such as how has research on these trades’ histories developed and advanced, or not, in the past two decades? How has an emphasis on valuing the local, the specific or the seemingly minor been taken up in studies of the book trade?  How do such interests sit with the expansion of book trade research into ever larger data-sets and/or within national and global print histories? What are the key social, political and/or technological  questions scholars of the book trade are now grappling with? In what fresh directions must the study of the trades now strike out? 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Keynotes: Joe Hone (Newcastle); Ruth Frendo (Stationers’ Company)

Barry McKay (Independent Scholar) On Professor Peter Isaac

Fionnghuala Sweeney (Newcastle University) The unfinished business of freedom. Slave narratives, surfeit and the British Northeast in antebellum Black Atlantic Print culture  

Karen E McAulay, (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) ‘Music for All’: the Rise and Fall of Scottish Music Publishing, 1880-1964 

Andrea Lloyd (BCU) ‘An indissoluble unity’: considering the relationship between outward influences and the design of Birmingham’s radical newspapers 1815-36  

Emma Sibbald (Queens’ College, Cambridge) ‘A servant's receipt for the world’: women wagoners and the antiquarian book trade at the Bodleian Library, 1690-1720.

Maria Zukovs, (St Andrews), Beyond the United Irishmen: a view of the French Revolution from the Dublin press, 1789-1794

Sam Bailey, Sorority, spycraft, and sodomy: collaboration and the erotic book trade in eighteenth-century London

Beth DeBold, A house divided: the internal conflict of the Stationer’s Company.

Matt Ryan, ‘Unquiet spyrittes’: Martin Marprelate and communal strategies of resistance.

Joanne Butler (Keele), Locating women booksellers in eighteenth-century regional England

Ian Dooley (Institute of English Studies, UCL), Cheap Colour Ink and the Creation of Mass Print Culture

Roseanna Smith (BCU), A book by any other name? Nineteenth-century trade catalogues as a unique format of print

Helen S. Williams (Edinburgh Napier), Newspapers, timetables and ‘the world’s first comic’: the nineteenth century print trade in Glasgow

Holly Day (York), Selling the Memorandum Book in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Bibliographic Trends and the Mechanics of the Trade”

Bethan Elliott (York) ‘None… took any notice of it’: Publication and the Promotion of Romantic Drama in Print

Kate de Rycker (Newcastle), Danter’s gentleman: Thomas Nashe and the precarity of cheap print

Charley Williams (Edinburgh) Geraldine Jewsbury’s labour as a nineteenth-century publisher’s reader

Enquiries/queries to: ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk