Adam Smyth hosts a series of discussions by Oxford and visiting researchers presenting current research on the material history of the book.
Professor Adam Smyth talks to cataloguer Lucy Kelsall and book conservator Nikki Tomkins about the seventeenth-century library of Nicholas Crouch, now in Balliol College, and how to deal with fragile books.
Adam Smyth talks to Balliol College, Oxford archivist Anna Sander about an exciting new archive of letters relating to Graham Greene and his secretary, Josephine Reid.
A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash.
Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts. Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts.
Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles. Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the subject of his 2014 Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, on the history of facsimiles, forgeries, and fantasies of authenticity.
Adam Smyth is joined by Professor Ian Gadd to discuss his just-published collection on the history of OUP.
Adam Smyth talks to Professor Will Noel about the potentials of digital technology for the study of manuscripts.
Professor Tiffany Stern joins Dr Adam Smyth to discuss her current research on the materiality of the early modern play text. What happens to our thinking about plays when prologues, epilogues and songs become mobile pieces, detached from the whole?
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