Publishing Your Friends: Interwar Booksellers and Their Literary Networks
Matthew Chambers, Author of London and the Modernist Bookshop (CUP 2020), will be discussing his work on the role of literary communities and networks in the growth of the bookshop. The event will be recorded. A “bookseller” could once describe a...
Lanora Jennings on The Bookseller Oral History Project
The Bookseller Oral History Project, initiated by Lanora Jennings in 2023, aims to preserve the voices and experiences of booksellers, highlighting their roles in supporting societal movements and balancing commercial and social profits. The project underscores the historical significance of bookstores as community hubs and platforms for resistance and progressive discourse.
Reviving the High Street report
Earlier this week, RISE Bookselling unveiled the campaign on 'Reviving the high street: Booksellers Call to Action', in response to the increasing challenges that booksellers and retailers working across European town centres and high streets are facing.
Bookshops: Online and On the High Street
The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing When: 3rd-4th July 2023Where: University of ReadingCFP Deadline: Extended to 15 March Jeff Deutsch, in his recent In Praise of Good Bookstores, reflected that because...
First Annual Bookselling Research Network Meeting – 21st January 2022
In January, we were delighted to host the first annual meeting of the Bookselling Research Network (BRN), bringing together those from industry, associations and academia that share a common interest in the history, practice, and culture of bookselling. Despite the challenges...
Working in Bookselling: Bill Samuel and Trevor Goul-Wheeker
Working in Bookselling Interview Series Bill Samuel and Trevor Goul-Wheeker have, between them, run some of Britain’s biggest bookshops, and so we are delighted to have been given the opportunity to find out more about their careers in the industry. Bill...
