Dr Scott-Warren represents the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 31 to April 2 2016. Dr Scott-Warren presents a paper on Cut-and-Paste Bookmaking: The Private-Public Agency of Robert Nicolson to the panel on The Early Modern Material Text I: Reading, Collecting, Compiling (March […]
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New Centre for Material Texts exhibition space opens with 19th century commonplace books
The first Centre for Material Texts exhibition is now live in the new exhibition cases on the first floor of the English Faculty at 9 West Road. Graduate students on Ruth Abbott’s MPhil module on 19th century writers’ notebooks have installed an exhibition of original 19th century commonplace books. The exhibition had its first installment […]
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Last week the Centre for Material Texts convened a one-day colloquium entitled ‘The Academic Book of the Future: Evolution or Revolution?’ This was part of Cambridge’s contribution to a host of events being held across the UK in celebration of the first ever Academic Book Week, which is itself an offshoot of the AHRC-funded ‘Academic […]
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The Writing Britain Conference will be live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #WritBrit2014. View a Storify timeline of the conference created by J. D. Sargan.
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