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SUMMARY:Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse
DESCRIPTION:Join us with this link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/91934261983?pwd=78mkAzw85rsPM2k9l0Xk6WfFQZGGJI.1 \n\n\n\nFrom poverty on the Isle of Arran\, via a little shop in Cambridge\, two men with little education founded one of the world’s most famous publishing companies\, bringing to their Victorian readers\, authors as varied as Lewis Carroll\, Christina Rossetti\, Matthew Arnold\, Thomas Hughes and Alfred Lord Tennyson. They combined fabulous networking skills with a keen business sense and a love of fine writing. Above all\, the brothers\, Christian Socialists\, believed that publishing should have moral and political purpose.Within two generations the family would produce a British Prime Minister – quite the ‘rags to riches’ tale. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Harkness studied PPE at Mansfield College\, Oxford\, then joined an investment bank in the City\, one of the first women working in corporate finance\, where she enjoyed a highly successful career for twenty years. For the last twenty years she has served on a number of boards\, including both public and private companies. Her interests have been primarily in the education\, culture and health sectors\, including three years as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. She is now chair of Orthopaedic Research UK. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield University and an Honorary Fellowship at Mansfield College. In 2018\, a ten-year personal interest in a pioneering Victorian artist and writer\, Nelly Erichsen\, led to her writing and self-publishing a well-received biography\, which was longlisted for the 2019 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History. In October 2021 she was awarded an MA with Distinction in Biography at the University of Buckingham\, studying under Professor Jane Ridley. In 2021 she won the Tony Lothian Prize\, awarded by The Biographers’ Club\, for the best proposal for an uncommissioned biography. Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse was published by Pan Macmillan in May 2024.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/harkness26/
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SUMMARY:Sheila Markham & Conversations with the Rare Book Trade
DESCRIPTION:Sheila Markham is an Honorary Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association for her oral history project celebrating rare booksellers and collectors from around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter reading Theology at Oxford\, Sheila joined Marlborough Rare Books in 1979\, where she spent seven years doing a traditional apprenticeship. She worked for various leading figures in the rare book business\, and ran her own business specialising in books on the Ancient Near East for a few years. In 1994 she became Librarian of the Travellers Club in London\, a position which she continues to hold. \n\n\n\nIn 1991 Sheila was invited by the editor of The Bookdealer to conduct a series of interviews with her colleagues in the world of rare books. The project continues to this day\, although they now appear in The Book Collector\, and the total number of interviews published so far is 172. Two collections of interviews were published in book-form in 2004 and 2014\, and A Third Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade will be published on 1 December 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her talk\, Sheila will share some of her findings from these conversations\, covering a period from the early 1990s\, when bookselling had hardly changed since the invention of printing\, to the turbulent times of online commerce. \n\n\n\nThe majority of those interviewed come from the English-speaking world\, but booksellers in Argentina\, France\, Italy\, Japan\, the Netherlands\, South Korea\, Spain and Turkey are also represented. One of the recurring themes in these global conversations is the unanimous belief in the survival and enduring appeal of the book as a physical object.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/brn-markham26/
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SUMMARY:Lanora Jennings on The Bookseller Oral History Project
DESCRIPTION:Lanora Jennings began this project in 2023 after a conversation at an academic conference with other researchers in the History of the Book field. Many noted how difficult it was to find primary sources from booksellers—retail operations rarely donate their papers to library archives. As a former bookseller\, Lanora thought that the best way to preserve the history of bookselling was through the voices of the booksellers themselves. \n\n\n\nBookstores are private entities performing a public service – a delicate balance maintained for over 150 years. Bookstores are places where literary and cultural endeavors entwine with commerce\, where the pursuit of economic profits must balance with the pursuit of social profit – because a bookstore is symbiotic with its community. This is the culture of bookselling. \n\n\n\nHistorically\, booksellers have used their spaces as sites of resistance against censorship and in support of the First Amendment. Bookstores have served as crucial networking hubs for challenging systemic societal issues—from Women’s Suffrage to the Civil Rights Movement to LGBT+ Equal Rights. These stores constructed safe spaces that brought people together\, stimulated progressive conversation\, and facilitated public protest.  \n\n\n\nThe Bookseller Oral History Project collects the historical experiences\, insights\, and perspectives of current and former booksellers. These interviews help preserve the culture of bookselling\, the work practices\, the decision-making processes\, historical actions\, and events\, and they preserve the institutional memory of bookselling in general. \n\n\n\nBooksellers rarely tell their own stories and their impact on their communities is often anonymous. This project aims to preserve their legacy. \n\n\n\nLanora Jennings began her career in the early 90s at Borders Book & Music. She has since worked for three prominent independent bookstores and owned her own store for a time. She is currently the field sales representative for Princeton University Press and Yale University Press. She is also an independent researcher working on a large project that chronicles the history of bookselling in America\, of which the Oral History Project is one part.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/jennings2024/
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SUMMARY:The Spaces of Bookselling with Kristen Highland
DESCRIPTION:Claiming Space: Sidewalk Bookselling and Belonging in New York City\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk explores sidewalk bookselling in New York City as a dynamic space and practice for redrawing cultural\, social\, and legal boundaries of belonging for the bookseller and their customer-readers. Sidewalk booksellers everywhere must erect their tables on the unstable and shifting space of the sidewalk as regulated and politicized public and social space. In New York City in the late 20th and early 21st centuries\, while sidewalk booksellers benefited from First Amendment exemptions for vending print material\, municipal space management strategies continued to circumscribe and contain street bookselling. Within this tension\, New York City’s sidewalk booksellers crafted geographies of belonging through diverse strategies of evading regulatory enforcement and cultivating intellectual and social exchange. Using the liminal and contested space of the sidewalk not only to make a living but also to create an inclusive space that incorporates the book and bookselling into the dynamics of urban social exchange\, New York City’s sidewalk booksellers assert the value of books on streets. \n\n\n\nFollowing Kristen’s talk\, she will be interviewed by Eben Muse about her recent CUP Element\, The Spaces of Bookselling\, followed by an open Q&A session with all attendees. \n\n\n\n Kristen Highland is Assistant Professor of English at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her research focuses on book history and the material dimensions of literary culture\, including the social and cultural life of American bookstores\, as well as digital humanities and mapping. She has recently published The Spaces of Bookselling: Stores\, Streets\, and Pages with the Cambridge University Press Elements in Publishing and Book Culture series.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/highland2023/
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SUMMARY:Reading\, Wanting and Broken Economics: with Dr Simon Frost
DESCRIPTION:An Interview with Dr Simon Frost\n\n\n\nDr Simon Frost\, Principal Academic in English at Bournemouth University and author of Reading\, Wanting\, and Broken Economics: A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton around 1900 (SUNY Press\, 2021) part of SUNY\, speaks with Dr Eben Muse (the Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book) about the cultural and economic place of bookstores\, the shifting relationship between economics and literature\, and books as material\, commodified\, and contested objects of economic exchange. \n\n\n\nCombining historical study\, theorization\, and experimental fiction\, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton\, England\, as his case study\, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city’s bookshops\, with their combinations of libraries\, haberdashery\, stationery\, and books\, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers\, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not “consumed” but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts\, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world’s branded economies\, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/frost2022/
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