Communities and Networks in the Book Trade

This area of the BBTI website is being developed. If you have any comments or questions - or if you would like to offer any material - please email John Hinks.

The purpose of this area is to share some resources relevant to research on communities and networks in the British Book Trade, including (but not limited to) the research, funded by the British Academy, by John Hinks at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester. General information on his activities as an Honorary Fellow at Leicester, and a list of his publications, may be found here.  

Workshops on Communities and Networks in the Book Trade
Three one-day Workshops were held at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester. The programme for each Workshop, plus abstracts of some of the papers presented are available here:

• Workshop 1 (2 December 2005) - programme and abstracts

• Workshop 2 (2 May 2008) - programme and abstracts

• Workshop 3 (13 March 2009) - programme and abstracts
  

Journal Articles, Conference Papers, etc:
A selection of material relevant to the topic of book-trade networks and communities. You are very welcome to offer additional material.

• Book Trade Communities in English Provincial Towns: 1695-1850
  Summary of research aims (John Hinks, 2005)

• Distributing Catholic Texts in Jacobean England
  Abstract of a conference paper (John Hinks, 2006)

• Exploring the meaning of 'community' and 'network'
  Introductory talk to first Workshop (John Hinks, 2005)

• Freedom and Apprenticeship Records as a Source for Book Trade History   
  Article from Book Trade History Group Newsletter (John Hinks, 2001)

• Local and Regional Studies of Printing History: Context and Content
  Article from Journal of the Printing Historical Society (John Hinks, 2003)

• On the Margins of the Book Trade in Early Modern England
  Abstract of conference paper (John Hinks, 2008)

• Radical Communities of Print in England?   
  Conference paper (John Hinks, 2002)

• Towards a theory of book-trade networks
  Talk to second Workshop (John Hinks, 2008)
  
  

Additional material from the 'Communities and Networks' research

• Spatial typology

• Functional typology

• Alternative models

• Research outcomes
  
  LEICESTER EXAMPLES

• Civic networks: book-trade mayors of Leicester

• Apprentice networks: Leics apprentices bound to members of the Stationers' Company

• Apprentice networks: John Gregory's apprentices and their Midlands links

• Family and apprentice networks: Denshires

• Family and apprentice networks: Wards