Hidden Behind the Bookshelves Join Prof Samantha Rayner to discuss her recently published Cambridge Element, Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century. The British women booksellers who built and ran successful businesses before, during, and after the Second World War have largely been forgotten. This Element seeks to reclaim some of these histories from where they […]

Mark Thornton, Senior Partnerships Manager for the UK side of Bookshop.org will be talking to us about the way this online platform is trying to support physical indie bookshops, and some of the connected bookish initiatives the B-Corp company has initiated. Join Zoom Meeting: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95647914067?pwd=X3JTikuOsVbDa3bsAw3baQs4do5wnG.1Meeting ID: 956 4791 4067 Passcode: 031973

Convenience and the saving of time is one of the attractions of buying books online, particularly on Amazon, which advertises rapid delivery speeds at very low prices. Algorithms are designed to save time, making a database of books easily searchable, but they are also programmed to increase the time users spend looking at a particular […]