Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading

Applications are invited for the Michael Twyman Research Fellowship in Ephemera Studies in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing's autumn events schedule is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...

CBCP is holding symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading on 23 Sept. We have a fabulous line-up of speakers. Travel bursaries are available for PGRs & ECRs who do not have institutional support. Register here👇 research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

CBCP will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd Sept 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon, but in the meantime, please save the date. More info here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Prizes and Awards The Society for Textual Scholarship has established several categories of prizes, awarded biennially, to recognize outstanding contributions to textual scholarship. The Greetham Prize, formerly kno…

We are excited to announce that our CBCP Visiting Research Fellow, Buxi Duan, received an honourable mention in the Society of Textual Scholarship’s 2025 Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for his scholarly edition of D. H. Lawrence’s short story, published last year. textualsociety.org/sts-prizes-a...

This Social Mobility Day, @nicola-wilson.bsky.social reflects on the legacy of working-class writers like Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, putting class at the centre of discussion, and her work making universities more welcoming

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This is a quick reminder that the deadline to submit a proposal for the 3rd CBCP postgraduate symposium is next Monday - 24th March. The symposium will be held in-person & online on 29 May 2025. For more info, see below 👇

Type, technology and translation: A case study of Chinese metal type - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Speaker: Xunchang Cheng – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow This research seminar is a hybrid event and is free & open to all. To join us in person come along to...Read More >

Our next CBCP seminar on Weds 26 Feb will be delivered by Xunchang Cheng & investigates two sets of Chinese metal type recently acquired by the University of Reading. This is a hybrid event. More info about Xunchang's talk & how to register is available here 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

CfP: CBCP's 3rd PG Symposium will be held on Thurs 29 May 2025 at the University of Reading & online (via MS Teams). This is a hybrid event & there's no cost to attend. It's an opportunity for PhD students & Postdocs to present research & discuss book cultures & publishing. Submit by 24 March 2025.

Safeguard Creative Rights in AI

Make some noise: Help spread the word on AI and copyright. The UK govt’s consultation on AI & copyright closes on 25 Feb. Help make some noise about the importance of copyright in underpinning creators’ rights by emailing your MP via creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP. #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans