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This is a
selective list of other sites that may be of interest. To suggest
additions or amendments please e-mail
us.
Four important
sites with extensive links to other book history sites
Other book history
database sites
Other sites of
interest
- The
Bibliographical Society
- The
Book History Research Network - (formerly
the Book History Postgraduate network) - a forum for postgraduates
and independent scholars researching any aspect of book history
(at any period),
their teachers and others who are interested.
- British
Association of Paper Historians
- Cambridge
Bibliographical Society
- The
Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies at the Institute of
English Studies - a research
centre at the University of London, created from the merger
of the Centre for Palaeography and the Research Centre in the
History of the Book.
- The
Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh
- The
Centre for the History of Authorship, Writing and Publishing at the University
of Reading
- Chapbooks – new
web-pages from the Victoria & Albert Museum with a general
introduction to chapbooks, information on the proposed English
Chapbooks Database and British Chapbooks Collections Mapping
projects.
- Copyright
Infringement Lawsuits
- a
register from c.1560 to 1800.
- The
Early Book Society - aims to
bring together all those who are interested in any aspect of
the study of manuscripts and early printed books.
- The
Historical Directories Searchable Digital Library -
based
at the University of Leicester - a valuable resource for
historical research
- The
History of Printing - the printing press to now -
an interesting site with some useful links
- HoBo
(formerly History of the Book @ Oxford) - the
major UK site for book history, with information on events and
resources, also contents listings of selected book history journals;
good links to other sites.
- Oxford
Bibliographical Society
- The
Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Group
- Primary
Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) - a digital archive of primary
sources on copyright covering Italy, Germany, France, Britain and the United
States.
- 'Print Networks' conferences
on the history of the British book
trade - information on future
and past conferences and Print Networks publications
- The
Printing Historical Society
- The
Rare Books Group
- a specialist group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library
and Information Professionals). Mainly aimed at librarians but
of interest to anyone interested in rare books, manuscripts
and similar materials.
- The
Reading Experience Database (RED) aims to accumulate,
over a period of time, data about the experience of reading
from 1450 to 1914.
- The
SAPPHIRE Project
- the social, economic and cultural history of the Scottish
printing and publishing industry in the 20th century.
- The
St Bride Printing Library - information
on the Library and its Friends organization, plus a very comprehensive
list of links to other sites about printing and print culture.
- SHARP
(Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing)
- an international site, including
the SHARP-L discussion list, giving details of book history
resources, conferences and publications and many links to other
sites.
- West
Indian Bibliographies - two bibliographies compiled by
George Parfitt: 'West Indies Fiction' and 'West Indies
Poetry'. (2011 updates now available.)
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