The shift in book history studies in the past forty years is our theme. In the 1980s the model of ‘centre and periphery’ was used as a spatial metaphor for the relationship between established centres of book production and their wider markets. It was the organizing principle behind the construction of the British Book Trade Index [BBTI] and the series of annual seminars on the provincial trade which became Print Networks. In the 2000s the focus of research shifted to a ‘networks’ model, highlighting the connections of people, trade and distribution within and across regions and nations.

Registration is £95.00 for two days and includes all talks, refreshments, lunches, and a wine reception. Booking can be made here. Draft programme can be downloaded here.

Thanks to the subvention of the Bibliographical Society there are a limited number of £50.00 tickets specifically for postgraduate students, which are available here.

If you would like to attend the British Book Trade Index Workshop on 22 July, which is free, you must register here as places are limited.

SPEAKERS

Christopher Bacon (Hand Printer): The automation of copper plate printing in Newcastle

Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter): Provincial, regional or civic?: Bristol’s role in publishing and the book trade c.1640-1780

Joanne Butler (University of Keele): ‘This Day is Published’: 18th century bookselling women in regional newspapers

Judith Davies (University of Birmingham): The curious case of C F G Clark: a book trade outsider in Dudley

Ian Dooley (University of London): Printing Ink Manufacturing in Britain and Its Impact on Print Culture and Society: 1850-1915

Jessica Glaser (University of Wolverhampton): Books Across the Sea and other Anglo-American endeavours: the work of Beatrice Warde during World War Two 

Georgina Grant (National Museums of Scotland) + Helen Williams (Edinburgh Napier University): Every machine sent out has afforded thorough satisfaction'

Henrietta Lockart (Winterbourne House): Please bring a knife fork & spoon':  the jobbing printer as a snapshot of community life

Barry McKay (Independent): Barrowloads of books the United Villages Perambulating Library

Tonydex Odounga (University of Caen): Harnessing a Community of Writers and Social Reformers: The English Woman’s Journal’s Strategy to Champion Women’s Educative Rights

David Osbaldestin (Birmingham City University): A portrait of nineteenth century Bridgnorth, presented through the printed ephemera of the Shropshire printer George Robert Gitton (1800-85).

Diana Patterson (Mount Royal University): ‘Probably’, ‘Must have’, and ‘Likely’ — the distribution networks of the Rushers of Banbury

Jessica Purdy (University of St Andrews): Local Collections of Continental Imprints: The Reach of the European Book Trade into the Regions of Seventeenth-Century England

David Shaw (University of Kent): The economics of the book trade in Kent in the hand-press period

Larisa Vilhena (Trinity College Dublin): Steel Engravings after Daniel Maclise's The Play Scene in 'Hamlet': printed material in broadening the reach of a painting from ‘Local’ to ‘National’ in Mid-Victorian England

Hazel Wilkinson (University of Birmingham): The earliest printing in Birmingham, told through ornaments (University of Birmingham)

Helen Williams (University of Northumberland): Turner’s (female) Papermakers.