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Thursday 24 January. Bob Groser (Bibles Production Manager, Cambridge University Press), will talk about materials and processes used in modern Bible manufacture. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Thursday 8 November. Abigail Brundin and Dunstan Roberts, ‘Italian books in an English great house library: The case of Belton House in Lincolnshire’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

October 22nd, 2012Come and see Queens’ Old Library any day this week between 12.30 and 3.30. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Recent histories of the book have replaced earlier narratives of technological triumph and revolutionary change with a more tentative story of continuities with manuscript culture and the instability of print. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News

Bill Brown, ‘Obects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)’, Critical Inquiry 36 (2010), 183-207. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

October 6th, 2017Fascinating article by Huang Yuan in the latest London Review of Books about the tightening of censorship regimes in China. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

archive – and when Royal Mail is no longer in public hands, a museum will be an important monument to this centuries-old institution. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

March 8th, 2012I needed to check something in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’, and, not having my volume of Marvell’s poetry to hand, did what any PhD student would ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

And if you’ve just come across some. brilliant book or article in the field, bring it too and spread the news. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

For further details about the scheme or the events above, please contact CRASSH Administrator, Catherine Hurley (ch335@cam.ac.uk). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

February 28th, 2011Many thanks to Sebastiaan for alerting me to the work of Brian Dettmer, an American artist who uses knives, tweezers, and other surgical instruments to transform old encyclopaedias and ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and

Inspired by the example of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, and modelled on type created in Venice in the 1470s, the font had been used to print works by Shakespeare and ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Still it’s a nice surprise and somehow appropriate to a genre which is all about remembering that you’re flesh and blood, at the end of the day and at ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

September 20th, 2012From Adam Mars-Jones’ review of the latest Ian McEwan, in the London Review of Books:. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

September 16th, 2012for all those who contributed to the ‘Texts and Textiles’ conference earlier this week. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The expected start date for the position is between October and December 2024. ... CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

for the Walt Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org) and Civil War Washington (civilwardc.org). ... CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

hard to distinguish closets from studies, and the fluidity of room usage may muddy the waters still further. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

This seminar will be held in association with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

This seminar will be held in association with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The contest is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Cambridge. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

This conference takes the bicentenary of Coleridge’s Sibylline Leaves as an opportunity to reflect on the materiality of the paper archive, and processes of dispersal, scattering and recollection. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

May 25th, 2015MARK McGURL (Stanford University) will be talking about EVERYTHING AND LESS:THE NOVEL IN THE AGE OF AMAZON. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It will start at 2.30pm and will last approximately 90 minutes, allowing time for questions and discussion. ... Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

This series will discuss the practices and principles of editing nineteenth-century literary works. ... Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

It promises a feast for anyone interested in material texts and the intersections between words and things. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The exhibition is curated by Dr Elizabeth Upper and presents aspects of her research as the 2012/13 Munby Fellow of Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

23 October — James Daybell (University of Plymouth) ‘Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Thursday 16 May. Lucy Razzall (English, Cambridge), ‘Thinking Inside the Box: Containers and the Materiality of Early Modern Texts’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The software can be freely downloaded and applied to any set of images you may happen to be grappling with. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Dr Luisa Cale (Birkbeck): ‘Reading and Cutting through the Page: William Blake and the extra-illustrated book’. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

These seminars will be held in the Wren Library in Trinity College, and will be hosted by the Wren Librarian, Professor David McKitterick. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

It’s one of the three parts of the DLA Piper series ‘This is Sculpure’ (the other two are ‘Sculpture: The Physical World’ and ‘Sculpture Remixed’), each of which has been ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Here’s a more colourful image of industry and creative inspiration – a touching gift worked by a mother for her daughter, whose name we ‘read’ in the windmill. ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

plus gems such as the notebook kept by Milton which includes his drafts of Lycidas and a first go at Paradise Lost (in dramatic form). ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

June 11th, 2012All the news these days seems to be about libraries closing down, and as an academic I hear more and more of my colleagues saying that they don’t ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

I click on the link and get a truly mouthwatering array of bargains. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

December 23rd, 2010A few months ago I blogged about a book supposedly bound in human skin; recent news reports have reminded us about a book written in human blood. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The story–for the latest on which, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/23/poison-pen-reviews-historian-orlando-figes–involves the use of the Amazon website for ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

The first letter, I think, is W – and this is followed by H. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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And with that, the inevitable but somewhat horrifying answer — they are all going to have to start sending letters again. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

and Fall or catching up on the latest Austen. ... Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

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The book offers the first detailed reassessment of the arrival and early use of paper in England, and explores the ways that it was used by people across medieval society, from ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

In between, something like “To Mr Drasonawe” [changed to:] Drashenow”, and then a word that looks like “serton”. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Therefore, by studying both binding and script, we discover a meaningful interrelation between them and the contents. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.

Astell’s hand is wonderfully businesslike and serious as it sketches out the differences between Descartes and Democritus, or paraphrases details of the latest experiments in light and magnetism. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events.

Will I be deleting Facebook and Twitter? Soon, I promise, but not just yet…. ... Website. CMT at Cambridge. Latest News and Events. CMT Blog.