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In the mood for #SHARP2024! Just arrived & looking forward to reading it! SHARP News cbcp_UniRdg MAPP

And this Forster gem - draft conclusion + list of Cairo bookshops that might take a copy modernistarchives.com/related/conclu…

#SHARP2024 banquet: the heroes’ table! Thank you so much for supporting the conference!

Talking data feminism + archives + collaboration University of Reading Special Collections SHARP (@[email protected]) #sharp2024 Caroline Gould Elizabeth W Gordon Dr Nicola Wilson

The Edinburgh University Press Women in Publishing, 1900-2020 editors met for the first time in person at #sharp2024… Prof Daniela La Penna Sophie Heywood Dr Marrisa MAPP

We chatted to Prof Claire Battershill, modernist letterpress expert & co-director of MAPP about sloppy craft, the Hogarth Press’ ‘punk rock aesthetic’ & printing as protest in our newsletter this week ✂️📚

“There was a moment where buying a small press for your home was a radical act that allowed you to seize the means of production & make your own stuff without concerns about the market or censorship” bit.ly/463E51u [images: Vanessa Bell designs for Hogarth Press 1924]

Is there anything nicer than writing your book acknowledgments? So chuffed that ‘Recommended: The influencers who changed how we read’ - aka The Story of The Book Society - will be coming out w Holland House Books in 2025 Connecting Research cbcp_UniRdg

New publication! Our own Dr Marrisa’s article on the Publishers Association in Victorian Britain 🇬🇧

May Sinclair News! A big trunk of Sinclair's papers was donated to the University of Sussex in 2013, but the papers were all out of order and it was difficult to work out what was there. No more! They are in order, and they are catalogued. maysinclairsociety.com/2024/09/26/may…

We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a ‘Modernism and Data’ special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/mod…

This was great fun to write…thanks to British Association for Modernist Studies, the Leeds team for the conference, and the fantastic editorial team

Some pics from our recent workshop on data feminism + archives The King's University w a fantastic keynote on women in libraries and DH Erica Cavanaugh Elizabeth W Gordon Kathryn Holland

Cfp for the 34th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference 2025: ‘Woolf and Dissidence. King’s College London: July 4, 2025, and the University of Sussex: July 5-8. Deadline: 29 November 2024. woolf2025.uk/cfp/