Typically, book formats are pretty standard. Hardback, paperback, e-book. But in the 1970s, a Dutch publisher tried a new configuration for novels: the newspaper. Theo Knippenberg attributes his publi...

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

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Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...

Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...

Renowned pop artist Jann Haworth reflects on her extraordinary life & co-designing the "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover with Peter Blake!

Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

Contrary to its reputation as a hotbed of dour anti-fun Puritans, the early modern City of London was a place of lively and extravagant performance traditions. This talk will explore a range of civic ...

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...

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Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)