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Jolie
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Braun
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Interests include women publishers, editors, and booksellers; zines; self-publishing.
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Ohio State University
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USA
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Anne
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Brichto
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Anne Brichto and Derek Addyman own and operate Addyman Books, Murder and Mayhem, and Addyman Annex in the book town of Hay-on-Wye. The stores specialize in collectable and antiquarian detective fiction, science fiction, classic paperbacks, modern First editions, children’s books, as well as fiction and poetry. In addition to the three shops, Anne has maintained a popular #Bookstagram blog for several years.
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Addyman Books
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Wales
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Addyman Books Website
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Rachel
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Calder
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I have worked in the book trade for 30+ years, mostly as a literary agent (The Sayle Literary Agency, founded 1896). My interests are 19th and 20th-century book trade history, particularly bookselling and, as a result, have recently completed a PhD at UCL on Joseph Whitaker and his trade publications - The Bookseller and the Reference Catalogue of Current Literature (forerunner of Books in Print) - and their impact on the Victorian bookselling trade.
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University College London
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England
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Nick
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Canty
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My background is in the publishing industry where I worked for almost 15 years as a commissioning editor and publisher. I worked for Pearson, Thomson Reuters and was then the Publishing Director for the academic press of a professional society. In my previous professional work I have set up and managed commercial business units and launched various commercial enterprises, from book lists to major online information services. I have been involved with a variety of media and publishing formats covering print and online services.
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University College London
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England
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Matthew J
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Chambers
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My research interests include literary modernism and transatlantic print cultures, particularly periodical and publishing networks. I am the author of Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and London and the Modernist Bookshop (Cambridge University Press, 2020). I am currently working on expanding my research of modernist booksellers beyond the focus of my last book.
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University of Warsaw
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Poland
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David
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Chartash
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At the intersection of the library, sale/purchasing and prescription of books.
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University College Dublin
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Ireland
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Jane
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Cholmeley
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Jane Cholmeley has worked in the book trade for 40 years. Her first job was in publishing with Yale University Press then Macdonald Educational. She refused to work for Robert Maxwell, took redundancy and was co-founder of Silver Moon Women's Bookshop. Silver Moon was a feminist and lesbian bookshop on the Charing Cross Road which from small beginnings in 1984 became Europe's largest women's bookshop, closing in 2001. She has just become an author, writing a memoir of Silver Moon called A Bookshop of One's Own published February 2024 by Harper Collins.
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Silver Moon Bookshop (retired)
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Elen
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Cocaign
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I wrote a PhD entitled “Knowledge is Power”, the British Left and the Book, which focuses on the relationship between left-leaning publishers, booksellers and political parties from 1918 to 1951. I am interested in political print in 20th-century Britain. I co-organise a seminar entitled « Au carrefour de l’imprimé contemporain » (https://transcrit.univ-paris8.fr/Seminaire-Au-carrefour-de-l-imprime-contemporain-2022-2023).
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Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint DenisFrance
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France
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Bob
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Cox-Wrightson
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I have held just about every position in the publishing industry, having worked in warehousing, distribution, editorial, magazine editing, photography, copywriting, proofreading, print production and website editing. I have also worked in the associated industries of search engine optimisation and contextual keyword advertising. I completed an MA in Publishing from Anglia Ruskin University in 2012, gaining a distinction. My dissertation subject was Why Do Bookshops Matter? An Investigation Into The Survival Of The Independent Bookshop.
I currently work in the Data Services department of Cambridge University Press.
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Cambridge University Press
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England
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Orla
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Cura
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Orla Cura is a student on the Publishing MA course at UCL. In 2019 she earned an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent, and is currently writing her MA dissertation on objects found in secondhand books.
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Law Business Research
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England
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Kanupriya
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Dhingra
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Dr. Kanupriya Dhingra is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature, Jindal Global University. She is also a Board of Directors member at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). She researches on the History of the Book and Print Cultures, with a focus on Delhi (India). She earned her doctorate under the Felix Scholarship Fund from SOAS, University of London in 2021 on her dissertation titled ‘Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History’, which she is currently revising into a monograph. Her doctoral research is based on oral interviews and rhythmanalysis conducted in Old Delhi. Supported by the SOAS Fieldwork Grant, Kanupriya interviewed more than 200 booksellers and several shauqeen book buyers of Daryaganj.
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Jindal School of Languages and Literature, Jindal Global University
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India
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Simon
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Eliot
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Simon Eliot is Professor Emeritus of the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He was involved in founding the Reading Experience Database (RED); the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP); and London Rare Books School (LRBS). He has published on quantitative book history, publishing history, history of lighting, library history, and the history of reading. He was General Editor of the new four-volume History of Oxford University Press (2013-17); and recently directed a large-scale AHRC-funded project on the communication history of the Ministry of Information 1939-46. Areas of particular interest: Book distribution and selling, and selling secondhand books 1770-1914; bookselling 1939-45.
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School of Advanced Study, University of London
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England
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First Name
Shai
Last Name
Feraro
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My research focuses on the study of occult and New Age Spirituality bookshops in Britain between the late-19th and late-20th Centuries. I'm also interested in esoteric publishing and in the role of women in the British book trade during the same period. More broadly, I research alternative religions and spiritualities in North America and the UK during the 19th and 20th centuries. My 2020 book, Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990, was published by Palgrave Macmillan, who also published two anthologies I co-edited - Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel (2016) and Magic and Witchery in the Modern West (2019).
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University of Haifa
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Israel
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Simon
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Frost
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Simon Frost is Principal Lecturer at Bournemouth University, Senior Commissioning Editor for Oxford University Press ORE (Oxford Research Encyclopedia); and Director of Transnational Affairs and Executive Board member of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). He has published extensively on book history, reading, book retail and consumption, , including Business of a Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the case of Middlemarch (2012), and articles such as “Economising in Public” (Book History, 17), “A Trade in Desires” (2016) and studies of retail organisations such as John Smith’s. He is currently awaiting publication of his latest monograph on historic reading and retail, and the consequences of only applying a neoliberal conception of consumption, Reading, Wanting and Broken Economics, expected on SUNY press in 2020/21.
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Bournemouth University
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England
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First Name
Ben
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Higgins
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My research focuses on Shakespeare, book history, and early modern literary culture. In particular, I am interested in the scrappy, ragged, 'forgotten middlemen of literature', as Robert Darnton has called the denizens of the world of early print, and the influence these individuals had on the intellectual and literary world of the English Renaissance. At the moment, I am researching the figure of the early modern publisher as someone who provided structure and authority to what Robert Burton called a 'vast Chaos and confusion of books'. My other research interests include the history of libraries and of book organisation; the early reception of Shakespeare's writings; the Shakespearean apocrypha; and the writings of Sir Thomas Browne.
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Lincoln College
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England
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Kristen
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Highland
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Dr. Kristen Doyle Highland is an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. She researches nineteenth-century American literature and book history and is currently at work on two book projects, both on bookstores! One takes a close look at how bookselling spaces, including the bookstore, street stall, and catalogue, function as complex spaces of social exchange, and the other examines nineteenth-century New York City bookstores. Kristen has been a teacher for over two decades and welcomes the opportunity to engage with and learn from others with diverse experiences in bookselling. Interests: History of bookselling, American bookselling, bookstores and retail spaces, bookselling in the Middle East and South Asia
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American University of Sharjah
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United Arab Emirates
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Cynthia
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Johnston
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Dr Cynthia Johnston is a Lecturer in the History of the Book and Communication at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has published on the production of the decorative components of medieval manuscripts in commercial contexts in thirteenth -century as well as the history of book collecting in the post-industrial North West of England. She has curated two major exhibitions on post-industrial collecting; Cotton to Gold for 2 Temple Place in 2015, and Holding the Vision for Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery in 2020.
Areas of particular interest: Book production and dissemination in thirteenth-century Europe, collecting manuscripts and books in post-industrial England with focus on collecting networks in regional centres such as Preston, Blackburn and Burnley.
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School of Advanced Study, University of London
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England
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First Name
Suzanne
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Joinson
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Dr Suzanne Joinson is an award winning writer and academic. She has published two novels with Bloomsbury and has a memoir forthcoming with The Indigo Press. She is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester where she lectures in fiction, creative non-fiction, autofiction and memoir. Her academic work explores the intersection of life writing and fiction, with a current emphasis on the relationship between literature and propaganda.
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University of Chichester
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Andrew T.
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Kamei-Dyche
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Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche is a scholar of Japanese book history and print culture. His primary research interests are publishers, bookstores, and reading, particularly in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is especially interested in human networks and the social role of publishers and bookstores.
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Aoyama Gakuin University
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Japan
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Audrey
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Laing
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Dr Audrey Laing is a Lecturer in the School of Creative and Cultural Business, at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. She worked for several years in the book trade before undertaking doctoral research entitled Bookselling culture and consumer behaviour which has formed the foundation for ongoing research into the book trade. Previous published research includes studies on Authors and Social Media; Bookselling Online, and Bookshops as a ‘third place’. Audrey is currently working on Indies in Scotland, a project exploring the role of independent bookshops in Scotland’s towns and villages.
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Robert Gordon University
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Scotland
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