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Call for Applicants: SHARP in the Classroom Editor
SHARP News is the open access newsletter for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. SHARP in the Classroom is our place to build a public network…
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Job Opportunity: Professorship in Media Change with a focus on Book Culture and Digital Publications, Leipzig University
The professorship researches and teaches at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies on the transformation of the book as a medium and comparable writing and reading media in the…
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SHARP 25th Anniversary Research Fellowship: Report from Trude Dijkstra
Trude Dijkstra has published a report on her fantastic research project, which won one of SHARP’s 25th Anniversary Research Fellowships in 2019. You can read about the award here. Her…
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Welcome!
As SHARP president Shef Rogers states in his welcome letter, SHARP News has historically been a stimulating resource for book history reviews, updates, and bibliographies. We want to ensure this…
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CFP: Wonder Women & Rebel Girls (deadline 6/15)
4th September 2020 Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin Online Workshop Keynote: Dr Emma Butcher (University of Leicester) ‘War Girls: Youthful Soldiers and Writers in the Age of Modern…
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Megan J. Elias. Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook.
Megan J. Elias. Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 296p. ISBN 9780812249170. US$ 34.95. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. United Tastes: The…
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Theo Rosendorf. The Typographic Desk Reference
Theo Rosendorf. The Typographic Desk Reference. 2nd ed. Forward by Erik Spiekermann. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 350p. ISBN 9781584563119. $45.00 (hardcover); $25.00 (paperback). This extensive desk reference is divided…
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Charles V. Reed. Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911
Charles V. Reed. Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 221p. ISBN 9780719097010. £70.00 (hardcover). If you enjoyed Paul Scott’s…